I don’t see these very often, it’s a good opportunity to purchase and preserve family history.
Description reads:
Fully adorned/ uniquely designed Full-Leather embossed covers, with some light scuffing, rubbing, fading and wear to extremities, although still quite well kept externally; both boards have detached, and the spine cover, with some chips and loss, has begun to lightly split away, otherwise the Bible is intact and presented well. Central presentation on front pastedown denotes the Bible was donated by the Wyatt family of DeKalb County, Indiana, with the Presentation containing a few members names. Otherwise, the Bible remains unmarked, including family pages and photo holders, both unused. A few leaves in front a little worn on the edges with a few small chips, but the rest bound firm and clean. Many illustrations both in text and plates, some of them being from the amazing Biblical artist Gustave DORE! Pages lightly browned but nicely aged. Page edges shining gilt. The pages are all present, and the Bible is complete, including the family pages, which remain bright and unused… and immaculate. Good luck!
Dimensions 11″ wide, 13″ tall, 4″ thick. Good luck!
EDMOND J. WYATT. The gentleman whose career is briefly sl<etched in the following lines is one of the established residents of Auburn and his life has been such as to gain the confidence and good will of the people of his community and to make him well and favorably known throughout the county of which he has been so long an honored citizen. In the highe,st sense of the term, he is a self- made man and as such has met with success in material things such as few at- tain and made a record which may be studied with profit by the young men of the rising generation. Ed Wyatt, as the subject of this sketch is popularly known, is a native of DeKalb county, Indiana, having been born in Jackson township, on April 26, 1862, and is a son of John and Sarah Jane (Robe) Wyatt. John Wyatt, the son of Nathan and Mary Wyatt, was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, April 4, 181 1, and came to DeKalb county, Indiana, in 1836. He died July 28, 1906, at his home in DeKalb county, aged ninety-three years three months and twenty-four days. He was married April i, 1834, in Medina county, Ohio, to Eva Kitchen, who died February 12, 1839. Their only child, Rachel, was born sixteen months after they came to this county and died at the age of fourteen years. On September 12, 1839, Mr. Wyatt married Sarah Jane Robe, a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, born on October 31, 1820, and who died Januar}- 2'], 1888, aged sixty-seven years two months and twenty-six days. It was in the fall of 1836 that Mr. Wyatt came to Jackson township to seek a location for a future home. Here, travel- ing through the dense woods, which were full of a thick growth of wild pea vines, prickly ash, etc., the knees of his pants wore out and his hide too, but he bound up his knees and struggled on. He selected government land in sec- tion 34, then returned for his family, bringing them here the fall of 1837. The deed for this land was signed by President Andrew Jackson. In the Edmond Wratt was reared on the parental farmstead in Jackson tow-n-
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I’m going to leave this post up after auction end because the seller included so much important information.
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Poet 