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Sarah Ann Unthank Family Bible

SARAH ANN UNTHANK BIBLE*
Transcribed and Annotated by Thomas D. Hamm
Pleasant Unthank was born 1st month 12, 1804
Sarah Ann Unthank was born 8th mo 8th 1817 [second marriage for both]
Charles R. Unthank was born 11 th mo 22nd 1846. d. 19Q6
James Bryant Unthank was born 5th mo 1st 1849, d. Nov. 3, 1916
Anna Elizabeth Unthank was born 10th mo 6th 1851
Alpheus C. Unthank was born 1st mo 20th 1854
Eliza Alice Unthank was born 2nd mo 3rd 1857
William H. Unthank was born 5th mo 2nd 1859
Cadwallader Pitts, B. 30th d. 1st Mo 1787 D. 16th d. 12th Mo 1855
Elizabeth Stanley, B. 4th d. 3rd mo 1888 D. 27th d. 12th Mo 1842
Sarah Ann Pitts, B 8th d. 8th Mo. 1817
Eliza & Lcvina Pitts B. 23d D. 7th Mo 1824
Pleasant Unthank was born 1st 12 1804
Elizabeth Unthank was born 4th mo 16th 1815 [first wife of Pleasant]
Emeline Unthank was born 8th mo 4th 1837
George L. Unthank was born 11th mo 17th 1839
Pleasant Unthank died 1881
Sarah Ann Unthank 1817-1906
Chas. R. Unthank 1846-1926
[see discrepancy with above—tombstone in Earlham Cemetery, Richards, says died 1926]
James B. Unthank, died November 3, 1916, buried Wilmington
Emma Harris Unthank, b. May 4, 1852, d. September 16, 1936, buried Wilmington, Ohio
Wm. H. Unthank, died Oroville, Calif., Dec. 9, 1939, cremated ashes buried
Webster Ind Cemetery, March 23, 1940 on Pleasant Unthank lot
Alice Eliza Unthank died in Richmond Ind October 17, 1944 Buried Earlham Cemetery
On sheet of notepaper laid inside of Bible:
Cadwallader Pitts was born 30th of the first month 1787.
Elizabeth Pitts wife of said Cadwllader was born 5th of 3rd month 1788
Sarah their daughter was born the 8th of the 8th mo 1817
Eliza and Levina their daughters were born the 23rd of the 7th mo 1824
Mary second wife of CP was born 2d mo 6 1800
Levina Pitts daughter of Cadwallader and Elizabeth Pitts deceased the 6th of the 8th mo 1824
Elizabeth Pitts wife of Cadwallader Pitts deceased the 27th of 12th mo 1842
Cadwallader Pitts deceased the 16th of 12th mo 1855
Mary Pitts wife of Cadwallader Pitts deceased 12th mo 5th 1872
Alonzo's children: Elsie, Russel, Floyd, Amy, Zula, Herbert Elmer's: May
Elizabeth's: Laura, William, Versal
[these are descendants of Cadwallader's Pitts's daughter Eliza]


*The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised.
New York: American Bible Society, 1894. This Bible was recently donated to the Friends Collection of Earlham College.
A note on the fly leaf reads:
'This Bible was presented to Sarah Ann Unthank by James B. Unthank 1890.
Given by Alice E. Unthank to Reba Alice Unthank Shrieves 1929.
" Note in "Family Record section. "
The Unthank family came to America about 1780 from Yorkshire England to Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Thence to Guilford County, N.C., thence to Richmond (or Wayne County) Indiana.
The name Unthank means 'House by a pool" or 'on the tank.'"

Originally published in The Hoosier Genealogist
Vol. 39 No 1 March 1999
Transcribed and Contributed to Genealogy Trails by Barb Z.

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