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GIFFORD BIBLE
Description – The HOLY BIBLE containing the OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. Saratoga Springs: Printed and Published, Wholesale and Retail. By G M Davison 1832
Large Bible (9 x 11 x 2), black, spine taped from front to back, very poor condition, first pages torn and loose. Pages stained and fragile.
The following is handwritten on the inside of the front cover:
Mordecai Gifford Born August the 18th 1803 Died August the 14th 1875
Catharine Gifford Born May the 16th 1806 Died May the 20th 1877
Mary Jane Gifford Born July 22nd 1827
David Gifford Born April 6th 1829
Mordecai W Gifford Born July the [9th ?] 1835
Catharine M Gifford Born April 29 1843
Laura E Gifford Born June the 5th 1849
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David Gifford Died September the 23rd 1889
Nettie E Gifford Died September the 14th 1891 age 41 and 9 months
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Mary J Huested Died February the 15th 1897 age 69
Location – Brookside Museum, 6 Charlton St., Ballston Spa, NY 12020
Catalog # - 1969.024.0001 U107L05 Transcribed by J. Wickizer: 9 May 2012
Mordecai Gifford was a farmer who lived in Galway, Saratoga County, New York. Per the 1871 Saratoga County business report, he was farmer of 110 acres with a Galway PO address. Mordecai left the 1st Christian Church of Galway to become the deacon of the newly formed Barkersville Christian Church in 1857-1859. He is buried, with his wife Catherine, in the Foster Hill Cemetery in Galway. [Saratoga GenWeb]
At the time of his death, Mordecai’s heirs were his wife, Catherine Marie Gifford and his children; Mary Jane Huested (widow of Ira B Huested) of Broadalbin, Fulton Co., NY; Laura Ellen Nash (wife of William Nash) of Providence, Saratoga Co., NY; David Gifford of Schaghticoke, Rensselaer Co., NY; and Mordecai W. Gifford of West Eaton, Madison Co., NY. [Saratoga County Surrogate file 090/11]
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