Blount Family Bible (1841-1877)
of Isle of Wight and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia

[3 leaves; Accession No: 30295, Library of Virginia]

• Rev. Wm. Conner Blount & Sarah Frances Chamberlain were married Sept. 1841.
• Jennett Jocliff [Joeliff?], daughter of Wm. C. & Sarah F. Blount was born dead 1842.
• Timothy Waler, son of Wm. C. & Sarah F. Blount was born Sept. 1844.
• Rev. Wm. Conner Blount & Julia Ann Morrison were married Sept. 30th 1852.
• Sarah F. daughter of Wm. C. & Julia Ann Blount was born dead on the 20th June 1853.
• Wm. Capers son of Wm. C. & Julia Ann Blount was born July 3d 1855.
• Mary Stella daughter of Wm. C. & Julia Ann Blount was born Nov. 6th 1857.
• Thomas Coke Son of Wm. C. & Julia A. blount was born may 9th 1860 in Alexandria Va.
• John Morrison Son of Wm. C. & Julia A. B. was born June 30th 1861 in Petersburg.
• Sallie Lee, daughter of Wm. C. & Julia A. Blount was born in the County of Prince Edward Va. Augt. 6th 1864. Born in a brick house at the eastern end of High Bridge near Petersburg, Va.
• When Petersburg was evacuated during the Civil War the family moved to the High Bridge in Prince Edward Co. (when Petersburg was being shelled).
• Timothy Waler son of Wm. C. & Sarah F. Blount died Sept. 1848.
• Sarah Frances wife of Wm. Conner Blount died January 1852 in perfect peace & hope of a glorious immortality.
• Thomas Coke, Son of Wm. C. & Julia A. Blount, died May 12th 1860 at Alexandria, Va.
• Mary Stella, daughter of Wm. C. & Julia A. Blount died Decr. 2nd 1862 Aged 5 years at Farmville Va.
• Wm. Capers Son of Wm. C. & Julia A. Blount, died Decr. 8th 1862. Aged 7 years & 5 months at Farmville Va.
• John Morrison, Son of Wm. C. & Julia A. Blount died June 14th 1863 Aged 1 year 11 1/2 months at Farmville Va.
• Rev. Wm. Conner Blount departed this life in full hope of Heaven Jany 17th 1866 in the City of Portsmouth Va Aged 46 years & 4 months.
• Rev. Wm. Conner Blount was a lawyer before he became a minister.
• Julia Ann Blount wife of Rev. Wm Conner Blount died in Richmond, Va. July, 1877.
• "William Conner Blount was a methodist preacher and belonged to the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.  He was also a chaplain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. William Conner Blount was a descendent of Sir Edward ? Blount of England whose three sons come to America; one son settled in Virginia and two sons settled in the Carolina. (There should be a Blount coat-of-arms). Sallie Lee Blount's ancestors had Wilson coat-of-arms implazoned with three ___ boars heads.  (for the records of the marriage of Sallie Lee Blount and the births of her children and grandchildren see the back pages of this book.)"
• Photostats of pages in the William Conner Blount Bible Now in the possession of Alexander Blount Mahood.