The hand-made marble paper is remarkable in this bible. |
Right-hand page titled Familien Regifter. |
The story of Moses is depicted in the beautiful etching. |
Pressed between a page of the Bible and the family register was a flattened carnation, probably from a family funeral. |
For those who can read German, this is one of the pages from the Bible showing what is probably hand-set type used to print this 1846 edition of the Bible in Philadelphia. |
Hello LDub,
ReplyDeleteA fun discovery! What a beautiful bible. The genealogical information you found that states "John Bushong, a French Huguenot..." is incorrect. The French Huguenot Bushongs are an old myth and they were really German and German-Swiss who became part of the Pennsylvania Dutch. There's much more about this on Bushong United.
Respectfully,
Rick Bushong
Thanks for the information. I will have to checkout Bushong United! The Bible I wrote about belonged to one of my father's relatives who in turn gave it to my dad. As I said I found it in their home when I was cleaning out all the cabinets after they both had died. Sorry, but I have no one to talk to about it to find out more about who entered the original information in the Bible. Thanks for reading my story and entering in a comment.
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