The Butterfield Bible – Part 1 – Births

Cover of the Daisy Butterfield Bible

I recently received a copy of the “Butterfield Bible” from a friend who asked that I share its contents in the “Genealogy World.”  The bible is an 1889 edition that appears to have originally been owned by Daisy E. Butterfield of Marseilles, Illinois, who put her name inside the front cover in 1889.  The section between the Old and New Testaments includes “Family Record” sheets for Marriages, Births, and Deaths. This is a transcript of the “Births.” Besides the entries in the Bible, there is an additional sheet of births.

Births – 1^st Page of Births

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  Daisy Butterfield Bible – Births, Page 1

  A. Butterfield – Oct 19, 1840

• Sarah Drackley Butterfield – Aug 10, 1938
• Fannie Butterfield (Eddy) – Oct 20, 1863
• Alice Butterfield (Eichelbeger) – Oct 20, 1867
• Lottie Butterfield – Oct 13, 1865
• Lois A. Butterfield (Parre) – Dec 4, 1870
• Charles Butterfield – Jun 24, 1872
• Louis A Butterfield – Jul 23, 1877
• Sarah E Butterfield (Larrabee) – Feb 20, 1879
• Josephine Eddy (Wideman) – Sep 27, 1882
• Blanche Eddy (Britto) – Aug 29, 1884
• Hazel Eddy (Lindren) – Oct 25, 1886
• Fannie Eddy (Webster) – Dec 26, 1888
• Leola E. Eichelberger (Hobson) – Sep 5, 1890
• Leora Marle – Jun 8, 1898
• Russell L. Butterfield – Apr 24, 1902
• A. Butterfield II – Aug 18, 1903
• Kathyrn Sarah Butterfield – May 25, 1905
• Dorothy Eleanor Wideman – Aug 22, 1905 – Woodstock Ills.

2^nd Page of Births

• Blanche Evelyn Wideman – Dec 13, 1906
  

  Daisy Butterfield Bible – Births 2

• Albert William Butterfield – Apr 4, 1908
• Stephen Harris Larrabee – July 18, 1907
• Louis Edwin Larrabee – Sept 28, 1909
• James Eddy Wideman – Feb 8, 1911 – Woodstock, Ills
• Emma Lou Butterfield – Apr 5^th 1913
• William Wideman Jr.-
• Richard Wade Webster – June 20, 1916
• Sarah Rita Webster – Dec 27, 1917
• Robert Arthur Webster – Dec 23, 1922
• Jean Britton-
• James Eddy Wideman – Feb 8, 1911
• John Widerman-
• John W. Widerman – Marion, Ohio – June 27, 1921
• Richard Evan Picton (Eleanor Widerman) – Sept 29, 1925
• Barbara Ann Scott (Blanche Widerman) – Aug 25, 1926
• Donald Edward Larrabee – Sept 25, 1931
• Donald Walter Zinn Jr. – Apr 4, 1932
• 8¼ lb. – Deborah Ellen Larrabee in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. – Thurs. Eve Sept 29, 1938
• 7 lbs 2½ oz – Thomas Louis Roberts – Dec 7, 1938 @ 9.15 P.M.
• Barbara Lynn Butterfield – July 21, 1939 – Sycamore, Ills – 7 – 5
• Bruce Augustus Butterfield – Nov 10, 1940

There are 11 additional entries that I’ve decided not to transcribe because of privacy concerns. All relate to individuals born since 1940. Family Search does not appear to have Birth Records for individuals born in Illinois after 1940, so I won’t transcribe these entries here.

Three of them are included in the attached graphic and the remaining entries are on a separate sheet (not included here) that was folded in the BMD section of the bible.