Bible Rescue

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This is the Naomi Sales family Bible (Bible Rescue #318).

Surnames include:
Sales
Brown

You can find this Bible at https://biblerescue.org/bibles/naomi_sales_c91e09f3 or on our Ebay store

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This is the August M Reetz family Bible (Bible Rescue #319).

This Bible is German.

Surnames include:
Ewald
Reetz
Zimmerman
Hinckel
Kranson
Reuss

Locations include:
Linkenau, East Prussia
Nicollet, Minnesota
Clements, Minnesota

You can find this Bible at https://biblerescue.org/bibles/august-m-reetz_8a8f9f6b or on our Ebay store

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📖 “In 1856 in the month of March went west to Illinois…”

Six simple words.

No dramatic introduction. No explanation. No fanfare.

Just a brief note written in a family Bible more than 150 years ago.

Yet behind those words is an extraordinary story.

A family packed their belongings, left behind everything familiar, and journeyed west in search of opportunity. Years later, another entry records that they returned home. Additional notes tell of work, farm purchases, rented homes, and the everyday struggles of building a life in 19th-century America.

These aren’t stories preserved in government records.

They’re not found in census schedules.

They survived because someone picked up a pen and wrote them into a family Bible.

Most people think family Bibles contain only births, marriages, and deaths. But sometimes they contain something even more precious: the voice of the family itself.

This rescued Stone Family Bible, published in 1871, preserves not only names and dates but also a firsthand account of one family’s American journey.

Imagine if this Bible had been discarded.

The names might survive somewhere.

The story almost certainly would not.

That is why Bible Rescue works to find, preserve, and share family Bibles before they are lost forever. Every rescued Bible may contain the missing chapter of a family’s story.

❤️ Somewhere today, descendants of the Stone family may not know that an ancestor once recorded:

“In 1856 in the month of March went west to Illinois…”

Today, because this Bible was rescued, that voice can still be heard.

Together, we Rescue. Record. Remember.

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We just rescued this beautiful family Bible. The only family history information inside is what’s shown below. Can we ask our family history sleuths for help on the spelling of the last name by commenting below?

We love rescuing family history. Such a simple and heartfelt message. Preserved for another generation.

You can search our rescued family Bibles at biblerescue.org

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This is the Alvan Benjamin Stone family Bible (Bible Rescue #320).

Surnames include:
Stone
Keyes
Bradbury
Childs

Locations include:
Claremont, New Hampshire
Union Grove, Illinois
Conway, Massachusetts
Danville, Vermont

You can find this Bible at https://biblerescue.org/bibles/stone_19e972a7 or on our Ebay store

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This is the Leila Bulah Sutfin family Bible (Bible Rescue #347).

There are no other surnames in this Bible. We hope it can find its way home.

You can find this Bible at https://biblerescue.org/bibles/sutfin-leila-bulah_359da9e8 or on our Ebay store

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Bible Rescue doesn't rescue old books. We rescue legacies, memories, and families. You can help us rescue more than just old books, help us today.

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This is the John H. Turner family Bible (Bible Rescue #348).

Other names include:
Turner
Michael
Griffin
Horn
Woods
Matthews
Richardson
Hall

There is a handwritten message taped inside that says,
"At my death I've given the bible to Bob Hall Bulah Turner"

You can find this Bible at https://biblerescue.org/bibles/turner_4c964711 or on our Ebay store

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