TYPE: Book
DIMENSIONS: 9 x 11 inches
COMPONENTS: quality high ph anti alum paper
CONDITION: D plus condition, but this bible was exposed somewhat to the elements I am sure because it was located in accomack county virginia
NOTES: I believe that there is a very very good chance that Thomas Meares, an original Jamestown settler who settled there sometime in the 1600's was an ancestor of this Mears family. I believe that the widow of John Mears whose name was Virginia a in the census was recorded in the Virginia Civil War pensions for widows as Jane Mears. This is because I think people called her Jennie Mears (that is how this bible spells her name)(this is how her mother Nancy Shay spells her daughters name.....Jennie A. Fox Mears) and this became Jenn and hence Jane. Or perhaps the people who cut the pensions did not like the name Virginia because Virginia posed such a problem during the civil war. I think this sort of thing happened a lot when people came from Europe to the United States and the long names were shortened. Jennie was married to John on December 5, 1850
ITEM ID: 511
