Family Bible Records contained in a copy of:

PARADISE LOST. /
by /
John Milton /
with
Explanatory Notes /
by the /
Rev. Henry Stebbing, A.M.

New-York: /
D. Appleton & Company, /
346 & 348 Broadway
M.DCCC.LVII."

[Description: Book is 3-3/4" x 6-1/4" red-maroon leatherette, stamped with gold. Family record contents are: written on inside front pages, and on back inside pages; lined notebook slips of paper with small locks of hair and persons names with a
date. Also included is an uncited obituary from a Seattle newspaper for William Wallace Conger. Book was left in a Seattle home with some other belongings of a daughter, Mrs. W. G. McMeekin, when her home was sold about 1960.]

[Inside back cover, written upside down is:]
"Angeline M. Hunt
Presented to her by her
Teacher, R. N. Baker
August 20th 1857."

[Verbatim Transcription]

[1st page:]

W. W. Conger / Borne Jan. 7th 1840
[Ed. note full name: William Wallace Conger]
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A. M. Conger / Borne Jan 16th 1845
[Ed. note full name: Angeline M. (Hunt) Conger]
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Married March 17th 1864
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Helen Enoch Conger / Borne Sept 12th 1865
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Milton Henry Conger / Borne 2 March 1867
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Clarence Hurbert Conger / Borne March 25th 1869

[2nd page:]

Harriet Newel Conger / Borne Feb 28 1871
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Elisebeth Conger / Borne Dec 23 1872
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Alice L. Conger / Borne Feb. 19 1875
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Aderesta Conger / Borne August 6th 1877
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Ann Barbra Conger / Borne Jan 13. 1879
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Clyde Wallace Conger / Borne March 31. 1881
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[page 3:]

Emma May Conger / Borne April 26 1883
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Girtrude M. / Borne Dec. 21. 1885.
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Diane Prentiss Conger / Borne June 17. 1889.
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[Written on individual slips of paper which contained tiny locks of hair:]

Gertrude M. Conger / Feb 13, 1899 Age 13 years / full length.
Helen Enoch Conger / Feb 13, 1899 Age 3 years
Bertie / hair / 1871
Girtrude H. / Feb 27, 1888
William Wellington Conger Feb 13, 1899 / Age 7 years
Emma Conger's hair / age 5 / 1888 June 2.

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[Also contained in the pages of the book is the obituary for William Wallace Conger, born 7 Jan. 1840 in Phoenix NY. Newspaper name and date do not appear on the clipping, but the obituary appears to be from a newspaper called "The Seattle Weekly News."]
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"Death of William Wallace Conger
"Body Taken to Arlington Cemetery at Washington D.C., for Burial, Wednesday Night -- Sketch of His Life

"The funeral of W.W. Conger, who died at his home, 6512 Sixteenth Avenue N.W., Sunday night, was held from Gilman Park M.E. church Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, following a short family service at W.S. Mayfield's chapel. The services at the church, conducted by the pastor, Rev. B.F. Brooks, wre very beautiful and impressive, a quartette singing several selections before and after the pastor's remarks. Rev. Brooks paid a very eloquent tribute to the long and useful life of Mr. Conger and read the following sketch:

"William Wallace Conger came into this terestrial life at Phoenix, N.Y., January 7, 1840, and lived there until the year 1858 when his parents removed to Missouri and located on a farm near Centralia. March 24, 1862, he enlisted in Co. F, 9th Missouri Cavalry and April 22 he was made sargeant [sic]. He served three years and received an honorable discharge April 21, 1865. While still in the service, March 17, 1864, he was united in marriage to Miss Angeline M. Hunt, with whom he has traveled life's pathway of sunshine and shadow for more than 49 years -- wherein he faithfully kept his troth to 'love and to cherish Itil death us do part.'

"After his discharge from the army he lived on a farm for some ten years and then went to Centralia, where he went into the milling business for a like period. The family then removed to Columbia that the children might have the educational advantages of the state university. Here he continued his former business until he sold it out and entered the laundry business which he continued until 1903, when he retired and moved to Washington, D.C. He came from there to Seattle in 1905, and it was from his home here that he was translated to the Heavenly Home (xxxx unreadable line xxxxl evening, April 13, 1913.

"It was some time after his marriage that Brother Conger made an open confession of his faith in Christ and found a home in the Methodist church. We can judge of what the character and teaching of his father and mother has been when we remember that every child of this family have followed the example of the father and mother, that each son and daughter has a Christian companion, and all have been and are active in the service of Christ in the Methodist church today, save the little daughter who was taken in infancy; the noble son, whose widow and children we have with us, and the one son who serves with his wife in the Presbyterian church.

"Twelve children came to bless the home of Brother and Sister Conger, and today his departure is lamented by his beloved wife, ten of the twelve children, eighteen
grand-children, a brother and four sisters. The children are Harry M., Clarence H. and Clyde W., of Washington D.C.; Mrs. Hattie Beasley of St. Joseph, Mo.; Mrs. Wm. Walker, Mrs. W.H. Oliver, Mrs. Milo Brinkley, Mrs. W.G. McMeekin, Mrs. J.A. McCrory, Jr., and Mrs. Thomas A. Hopkins, all members of this church and all residing here, save Mrs. Brinkley and Mrs. Hopkins, who are temporarily in California. The brother, Jobe C. Conger, resides at Macon Ga.; the sisters are Mrs. Margaret Bogue and Mrs. Jennie Pelsne, of St. Louis; Mrs. Lettie Sevier, of Eaton, Col., and Mrs. Cora C. Sneed of this city.

"Brother Conger was a member of Lodge No. 59, A.F. & A.M. of Centralia, Mo., and it will be with their beautiful ritual service that his body will be laid to rest in the National Cemetery at Arlington, Va. Brother Conger had often expressed a desire that this might be his place of burial, and there after the hymn and prayer, the tap of drum and the volley of the firing squad, his earthly tabernacle shall rest amid the nation's noble dead while the earth shall endure."

"The body was taken to Washington City Wednesday night, accompanied by the widow, and the daughter, Mrs. W.H. Oliver, and the son, who came from his home in Washington a short time ago. The floral tributes were many and beautiful, testifying to the high esteen in which the deceased was held by his neighbors and friends."