Monday January 17, 2011

 

 

Hershey Family Bible

From the 1800’s

 

 

One of my distant cousins is working on a Hershey heritage that involves the nine siblings of my grandpa, Milton Lutz Hershey.

She wants information about the homestead where the ten children grew up – which is also where I grew up, and where my youngest brother Steve lives today.

One of the questions she asked, was, “Does anyone have an old family Bible”?

 

 

I knew I had one here, but wasn’t sure who was the original owner, so pulled it out of its storage place.

 

 

The writing inside the cover said it was given to my grandpa by a John Lienard in 1949.

 

 

 

 

It seems that at one time it had been owned by a Dr. Joseph Hershey in 1852.

 

 

This Bible even includes some of the books of the Apocrypha, which I am not sure that I ever read. I’ll have to read this sometime.

The Apocrypha are documents that were not accepted into the canon of the New Testament by the orthodox church. The New Testament Apocrypha are those writings that were written by ancient Christians that were not accepted into the New Testament, while the Old Testament Apocrypha consist of Jewish documents that were not accepted into the Old Testament.

 

 

There are only two names on the birth record – John R. Hershy and Joseph R Hershy.

 

 

Hershey is spelled like this sometimes – Hershy, but it appears that the “e” is in the earlier spelling and in the newspaper articles that are included in the pages. So this may have been misspelled by the person who did the calligraphy.

From what I can discover by reading through our direct line of Hershey’s these two are not in my lineage – other than distant relatives.

 

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It would be fun to know if any of my readers know if these two men were in their lineage, because I know that some of you have “Hershey” blood in your veins.

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