Monday, February 7, 2011

Amanuensis Monday: Listing of children

My cousin had this list of our great-grandparents' children and allowed me to scan it.  We do not know who wrote the list; it appears to have been written by two different people - the top part in ink and the latter section in pencil.  Did our great-grandmother, Rebecca Page Tapley start the list?  Did she finish it much later?  Did someone else finish it?  We will never know the answers; all we do know is it lists Rebeeca's and James (Jim) Madison Tapley's children.

The original is in terrible shape after probably 75-100 years:


    F.M. Tapley was born in the year 1867 
on the 7th day of April
    J. L. Tapley was born in the year 1868
on the 18th day of July
    L.K. Tapley was born in the year 1870
on the 31st day of March
    E.L. Tapley was born in the year 1873
on the 12th day of February 
    M.G.T. Tapley was born in the year 1875
on the 10th day of March
    G.W. Sentell Tapley was born in the year 1876
on the 5th day of July
    Bennett Olin Tapley was born in the year 1878
on the 10th day of April
    Solomon Tapley was born in the year 1881
on the 5th day of March
    Mary Magdalene Tapley was born in the year 
                                                              1885-1886 on the 12th day of February
                                                                 
    Mary Magdalean Tapley was born in the 
year one thousand 
eight hundred and eighty-five on the 12th 
and died on the 23nd of February 1885 age 
eleven days
    Vianna Bell Tapley was born in the 
year 1886 on Oct the 4th
    Bascomb Tapley was born in
the year 1888 August the 3rd day

There are a few differences in this list and what I had in my records, i.e., the year of birth for Mary Magdalene and the spelling of Bascom's name.  So many questions I will never have the precise answers to.

2 comments:

  1. Nice to have it in somebody's handwriting even if you aren't quite sure whose it is. Do you have other samples to compare it to?

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  2. No, I wish I did have samples of Rebecca's handwriting. Who knows? Maybe one day something will turn up! That would be so great.
    Thanks for commenting!

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