Bible Records

Chisholm-Woodruff-Stinson Family Bible

Marriages

Tho. [Thomas] W. Woodruff married C. A. [Cornelia America] Chisholm on May 5, 1857, in Woodville, Miss.

T. W. W. [Thomas William Washington] Stinson married C. A. [Cornelia Annette] Woodruff, Oct. 18, 1880, in Benton, La.

Births

Tho. [Thomas] W. Woodruff, born November 8, 1833, in St. Francisville, La.

Cornelia A. Chisholm, born September 15, 1837, in Woodville, Miss.

William Thomas Woodruff, born Nov. 6, 1859, in Woodville, Miss.

Cornelia Annette Woodruff, born January 15, 1862, in St. Landry Parish, La.

Fergus Hatham(?) Woodruff, born May 24, 1864, in St. Landry Parish, La.

Mary E. Woodruff, born Sept, 17, 1872, in Benton, La.

Thomas W. Woodruff, born Aug. 8, 1875 in Benton, La.

T. W. W. [Thomas William Washington] Stinson, born March 12, 1865; died Jan. 31, 1924

William Robert Stinson, born Aug. 18, 1881; died Sept. 30, 1881

Lilian [or Lillian] Alleter Stinson, b. Dec. 16, 1882

Willie [William] Guy Stinson, born Jan. 15, 1885

Robert Tidwell Stinson, born Sept. 30, 1887; died May 29, 1919 [He was killed by lightening, under a tree on the Stinson Plantation.]

Thomas Woodruff Stinson, born Sept. 23, 1889; died March 19, 1932

Wesley Arnold Stinson, born March 28, 1891; died Sept. 6, 1948

Irma Stinson, born June 15, 1894; died May 8, 1969

Dewey Hobson Stinson, born Oct.21, 1896; died May 14, 1972

Deaths

William A. A. [Augusta Alexander?] Chisholm died Oct. 26, 1866 [Wm. A. A. Chisholm was Cornelia America Chisholm's father. He was born Feb. 23, 1801 in New Madrid, Mo. In 1822 Wm. A. A. Chisholm married Matilda Jemima Dillard in Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi. Wm. A. A. Chisholm was the first publisher of the newspaper "The Woodville Republican." Woodville, Miss.]

Thomas W. Woodruff died July 21, 1878

William R. Stinson died Sept. 30, 1881

Mrs. C. A. Woodruff died Jan. 9, 1887

Cornelia A. Stinson born Jan.15, 1862; died Nov. 23, 1904

T. W. W. Stinson born Mar. 12, 1856; died Jan. 31, 1924

[T.W.W. Stinson was a planter in Bossier Parish, La. and was the son of Robert Tidwell Stinson born in York County, South Carolina about 1822. TWW's mother was Teresa Jane Hamilton born about 1833, who was the daughter of Thomas Hamilton, he was born about 1802 in Tenn.]

[Not listed in this bible was TWW Stinson's second wife, Miss Emmett Tidwell, nor their son William Emmett Stinson.]

Contributed 2021 Sep 10 by Mary Alice Gibner magibner@hotmail.com