Fuller Family Bible

Fuller Family Bible

I received the bible from my mother, Jewell Catherine Torbert Johnson. She received the bible from her mother, Lenora Ida Bell Torbert, who got it from her mother (my Ggrandmother), Jane Fuller Bell.

I believe the bible was originally the bible of Jane Fuller’s father Walton William Fuller. The American Bible Society, in New York, published the bible in 1848. The entries in the Family Records section are in several different handwritings.

The Family Record section of the bible is divided into three parts.

The first section is Marriages. It shows:

W. W. Fuller and Esther Parker
Was married on Feb. 9^th, 1832

James Bell and Jane P. Fuller
Was married on Sept. 9^th, 1852 (Early County)

Moses Joiner and Elizabeth A. Fuller
Was married on March 10^th, 1856

The second section is Births:

W. W. Fuller
Born July 30^th, 1807

Esther Parker, daughter of John Parker and his wife Rachael
Born on Nov. 12^th, 1809

Jane P. Fuller, daughter of W. W. and Esther Fuller
Born on Nov. 19^th, 1832

Elizabeth A. Fuller
Born March 12^th, 1834

W. W. Fuller, Jr.
Born Jan. 17^th, 1835

Emily A. Fuller
Born Feb. 9^th, 1838

Sarah R. Fuller
Born June 16^th, 1840

John P. Fuller
Born Feb. 13^th, 1844

Esther A. A. Fuller
Born Sept. 1^st, 1845

Julia Fuller
Born July 16^th, 1847

Z. J. Fuller (Zachariah)
Born Sept. 30^th, 1848

Pawlean Fuller
Born June 20, 1851

The third section of the Bible is Deaths.
Most of the Fuller family members shown in this bible are buried in Wesley Chapel Methodist Cemetery. It reads:

Julia Fuller
Departed this life July 16^th, 1847

Pawlean Fuller, daughter of W. W. and Esther Fuller,
Departed this life May 6^th, 1853

Esther Fuller, born Nov. 12^th, 1809
Died January 31^st, 1885

W. W. Fuller, born July 30^th, 1807
Died June 28^th, 1894

Rachael Fuller
Departed this life July 1^st, 1901

Emily A. Fuller
Died April 1^st, 1905

Esther Fuller
Died May 10^th, 1914

James Bell
Died November 8, 1887

Jane Bell
Born Nov. 19^th, 1832
Died May 30^th, 1910

Jessie Monroe Bell
Born Nov. 5, 1873
Died Sept. 10, 1936

Written in pencil at the top of the page beginning the New Testament is:
Will Parker, brother of Esther Parker, Sumter County.

Submitted by:
John R Johnson