Gunn Bible

Submitted by: Smith, Elizabeth

This is transcribed from the Bible of Carrie Gunn, daughter of Milburn Gunn and Mary Ann "Polly" Moody, who married Will Tucker. This family lived in Jefferson County, KY.

      BIRTHS:
      M. Gunn - Dec 11, 1820
      Thos. Gunn - Jan 27, 1865
      Lillie Gunn - Nov 3, 1866
      Chas Gunn - Sept 3, 1868
      Daisy Gunn - March 3, 1874
      Carrie Gunn - April 9, 1877
      Ora Marshal Gunn - Feb 3, 1891
      Horace James Gunn - June 27
      1890
      _____ _______ Gunn - Apri 1,
      1893
      Percy Sherman Page - March
      10, 1877
      Gladys Thomas Page - November
      30, 1899
      Virgil Tucker - January 10,
      1907
      Reba Shawl Tucker - Feb 18,
      1908
    

      DEATHS:
      Mary A. Gunn - July 19, 1885
      Lillie May Gunn - July 2_,
      1893
      Euceb__ Page - April 18, 1902
      Thos. P. Page - June 22, 1897
      Carrie Gunn Tucker - Feb 11,
      1917
      Maggie Moody Real (?) - Feb
      _, 1917
    

      MARRIAGES:
      Thomas Gunn and Alice Jones
      - January 27, 1890
      Chas Gunn and Emma Burkhart
      - May 31, 1892
      Daisy(?) Gunn and Thomas Page
      - Dec 26, 1894
      Will Tucker and Carrie Gunn
      - January 29, 1902
      Chas Gunn and Rena _____ -
      no date
    

      Carrie's bible is inscribed "To
      my dear niece Carrie, from Aunt Maria
      (?),
      Dec 27, 1897." I wonder if she was a poet--there
      are two poems in the
      bible, both signed "Carrie." The one in the
      front is difficult to
      read; the
      one in the back reads:
    

God's Kin

There is no summit you may not attain No purpose which you may not achieve If you will wait, serenely, and believe Each seeming loss is but a step to'rd gain.

Between the mountain-tops lie vale and plain, Let nothing make you question, doubt or grieve; Give only good, and good alone receive; And as you welcome joy, welcome pain.

That which you must desire awaits your word; Throw wide the door and bid it enter in. Speak, and above earth's loud unmeaning din Your silent declarations shall be heard.

All things are possible to God's own kin.

Note: Mariah was a British lady (not Carrie's actual aunt) who raised Carrie's sister, Sarah Elizabeth "Daisy" Gunn Page.