James Miller Speakman Family Bible

James Miller Speakman
Family Bible

Holy Bible in English; Holman Bible, Patriotic Order Sons of America edition,
no date or publisher given.

This Bible has family register pages, but they are blank. The family
information is written on the blank pages in the back if the Bible, and also
contains many inserted documents, and a number of obituaries glued into the
front blank pages. The Bible belonged to James Miller Speakman who was
born the same year as the Patriotic Order Sons of America was created.

Presentation Page
To: James Miller Speakman

Births
James Miller Speakman Sr Born Apr 26th 1847

Sarah Satia Ringer Speakman Born Nov 10th 1844

William Henry Speakman Born Sept 9th 1872

Anna Mary Cathrian Speakman Oct 8th 1874

Lydia Florence Speakman Aug 23, 1876

Sarah Satia Speakman Jan 21, 1879

Bertha Lusetta Speakman Dec 14, 1880

Luella Rebecca Speakman Oct 16, 1882

James Miller Speakman Jr Mar 15, 1887

Grandchildren of J. M. and S. S. Speakman
Howard Ralph Shirley Aug 31, 1901

Clarence Russel Shirley Aug 7, 1903

Charles Lloyd [Shirley] Jan 16, 1906

Florence Ruth [Shirley] Jan 10, 1909

Frank Speakman Roode July 4, 1904

Walter Warren Roode Jan 30, 1906

Alice Sarah Roode Jan 18, 1908

Edith Lucile [Roode] Jan 17, 1910

Albert Graham [Roode] Apr 2, 1912

Arthur Forrest [Roode]

Sarah

Florence

Ralph

Ethel

James Roy Lauffer

Marriages
Mary C. Speakman to John C. Shirley May 24, 1899 by Rev. R. G. Rosenbaum
at Delmont parsonage.

Sarah S. Speakman to Archie F. Roode aug 28, 1902 at Morgantown U. Va.

Luella R. Speakman to Simon P. Bush Dec 12, 1907 by Rev. L. Beisecker in
Lutheran Church in Delmont

Bertha L. Speakman to Simon Lauffer Sept 6, 1900 by Rev. Reed Shepfer in
Lutheran parsonage. Delmont

James M. Speakman. Jr. to Eva M. Bush Nov 16, 1927 by Rev F. C. Snyder in
Delmont Lutheran Parsonage.

Deaths
Lydia Florence Speakman, died Apr 27, 1909
Father, James M. Speakman Sr. died
Mother, Sarah Satia Ringer Speakman, died

Luella Rebecca Speakman Bush, died Nov 1935

Anna Mary Catherian Speakman Shirley, died March 29, 1950

William Henry Speakman, died Oct 12, 1944

Sarah Satia Speakman Roode died March 16, 1957, age 78

Bertha L. Speakman Lauffer Feb 1958, [age] 77

James M. Speakman Jr. Mar 15, 1960 - age 73

Births
John George Bush Born Dec 20, 1866
Alma Ida Dewalt Bush Born Aug 25, 1866

Children
Charles Clifford Bush born Oct 28, 1889

James Franklin [Bush] [born] Aug 13, 1892

Walter Dewalt [Bush] [born] June 13, 1894

Merle Foster Bush [born] Aug 25, 1895

Eva May Bush [born] May 7, 1900

Ella Florence Bush [born] Sept 21, 1905

Grandchildren of John G. and Alma I Bush
Charles William Bush born Nov 9, 1918

Homer Franklin [Bush] born May 26, 1919

John George Bush [born] June 12, 1920

Wilma Jean Bush [born] Jan

Arthur John Tawney [born] June 30, 1930

Lloyd James [Tawney] [born] Feb 6, 1933

Helen Grace [Tawney] [born] Dec 13, 1934

Esther Blanche Tawney [born] Sept 23, 1937

Alberta Jean Tawney [born]

Marriages
C. Clifford Bush to Susannah S Barrar Nov 4, 1914 in Greensburg by Rev Yout.

J. Franklin Bush to Dora G. Keibler Fink Aug 24, 1918

Ella F. bush to Albert F. Tawney Sept 1, 1927 in Cumberland Md.

Eva M. Bush to J. Miller Speakman Nov 16, 1927 in Delmont Lutheran
parsonage by Rev F. C. Snyder

Deaths
Walter DeWalt Bush, died Aug 12, 1894

Merle Foster Bush [died] Mar 3, 1897

(Mother) Alma I. Bush [died] Apr 22, 1935

(Father) John G. Bush [died] Sept 17, 1937

James Franklin bush [died] Jan 27, 1961

Insertions
[obit] Mrs. Alma I. DeWalt Bush
Mrs. Alma I. DeWalt Bush, wife of John G. Bush, of Salem township, died at
her home at 2:45 o'clock Monday morning. She was 68 years, seven months
and 27 days old. She is survived by her husband, two sons, Charles C. Bush,
of Jeanette, and James F. Bush, of Greensburg, and by two daughters, Mrs. J.
M. Speakman, at home, and Mrs. Albert Tawney, of Mamont. Seven
Grandchildren, three sisters and one brother also survive. They are Mrs. H. P.
Smith, of Salem township; Mrs. Flora M. Kepple, of Jeanettte; Mrs. George
McQuaide, of Delmont; and Walter W. DeWalt, of Pueblo, Colo.
Funeral services will be held at her late home at 2 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. Interment will be private in the Delmont Union cemetery.
[added in pencil] Died April 22, 1935 Easter Monday, Buried April 24, 1935

[obit] John G. Bush
John G. Bush, 70 years and nine months old, of Delmont, died yesterday in
the Westmoreland hospital. He was a life-long member of the Salem
Lutheran church of Delmont. Mr. Bush is survived by four children: Charles C.
Bush, of Jeannette; James F. Bush, of Greensburg; Mrs. Eva Speakman, of
Lincoln Heights and Mrs. Albert Tawney, of Salina. He is also survived by a
brother, J. W. Bush, of New Alexandria and seven grandchildren. Funeral
services will be held at the home of his son, James F. Bush, 522 Perry
avenue, Greensburg, at 2:30 o'clock, Sunday afternoon in charge of Rev. R. C.
Lauffenburger, pastor of the Salem Lutheran church. Interment will be made
in the Delmont Union cemetery.
[added in pencil] Sept 17, 1937 11:15 A.M. 1866-1937

[memorial] In Memoriam
Bush - In memory of our dear mother, Alma I. Bush, who passed away one
year ago today, April 22:
Dear Mother you are not forgotten,
Though on earth you are no more;
Still in memory you are with us,
As you always were before.
The flowers we place upon your grave
May wither and decay,
But love for you who sleeps beneath
Will never pass away.

Sadly missed by daughters, Eva Bush Speakman and Ella Bush Tawney.

[obit] Mrs. Mary J. DeW Smith
Mrs. Mary J. DeWalt Smith, 75 years old, wife of H. P. Smith, of Greenburg R.
D. 3, died at 6 o'clock Friday evening at here home from complications arising
from a fall which occured seven weeks ago. She is survived by her husband
and two children, Clarence R. Smith, of Alliance O., and Mrs. J. E. Stewart, of
Glenville, W. Va. Also surviving are seven grandchildren and one great
grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Ella N. McQuaide, of Delmont, and Mrs. Flora
Kepple, and one brother, W. W. DeWalt, of Pueblo, Colo. She was a member
of the First Reformed church, of Delmont. Funeral services will be held at 2
o'clock this afternoon at her late home off the Greensburg-Delmont road, in
charge of her pastor, Rev. Will Fisher. Interment will be made in Woodlawn
cemetery at Denmark Manor. [added in pencil] Dec 24, 1957 9pm

[funeral card] In Memory
In Memory of Lloyd George Haines
Born May 12, 1869 Hempfield Township, Pa.
Departed this life September 21, 1937 Salem Township. Pa.
Ceremonies by Rev. Charles Shindler
Thurday, September 23, 1937 2:00 P.M., E.S.T.
Trinity Reformed Church, Delmont, Pa.
Interment Delmont Lutheran Cemetery

Service conducted by The Bash Funeral Home Delmont, PA.

[funeral card] In Memoriam
Services for Mrs. Mary C. Bush
Born March 25, 1872
Died February 18, 1936
Services held at Residence, Feb. 20, 1936
Minister Rev. E. R. Hanks
Interment Rlairsville Cemetery

Felton Funeral Home New Alexandria, Pa.

[funeral brochure] Memorial Service, Sunday, January 17, 1937
Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, organized January 16, 1848, Greensburg,
Pennsylvania, J. Paul Harman, Pastor

Re-Commital of Remains of:
Pastor Michael Eyster, Colonel Christopher Truby, Mrs. Sybilla Bowman Truby.

Pastor Michael Eyster
Michael Eyster, a son of Adam and Elizabeth Eyster of York County, was born
May 16, 1814. After spending his early years on his father's farm, at the age
of 13 he went to York where he was employed as a clerk in a store. Here he
became deeply interested in religion and decided to study for the ministry.
For several years he attended Marshall college, and then completed his course
at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg. Here also he was graduated from the
Theological Seminary in 1838 and licensed by the West Pennsylvania Synod to
preach the gospel. He was soon called to the Williamsburg parish in
Huntingdon County, which he served for eight years.
On January 23, 1839 Pastor Eyster was married to Miss Julia E. Eichleberger of
York. In 18446 the family moved to Greencastle, where Mrs. Eyster died,
leaving her husband with three small daughter - Emma (Mrs. Adam Turney),
amelia (Mrs. Wm. Brown), and Josephine (Mrs. Blackburn). In october, 1849
he accepted a call to the Greensburg-Adamsburg parish.
During Pastor Eyster's brief pastorate at Zion's the membership increased
from less that fifty members to 105. Under his leadership the congregation,
which had been worshiping in a building rented from the Presbyterian church,
dedicated its own building on November 21, 1851. Likewise a new church
building was erected at Adamsburg, and another by the congregation he had
organized at Delmont.
In 1851 he was elected Principal of the Greensburg Seminary but refused the
position. He was President of the Southern Conference of the Pittsburgh
Synod at its meeting in August, 1852, but did not live to see the Conference
entertained by Zion's in the following year.
In the spring of 1853 his health began to fail. His last sermon was preached
before the Pittsburgh Synod in June when he used the text, "This do in
remembrance of me." His death occured on August 10, 1853 in the fortieth
year of his age and the fifteenth year of his ministry.

Colonel Christopher Truby - Sybilla Truby
Christopher, a son of the Swiss immigrant Christopher Truby and his wife
Catherine, was born in Bucks county in 1736 not far from Newtown, later to be
the headquarters for General Washington for a short time in 1776. The
muster record of his enlistment in 1763, during the Indian Wars, describes
him as being 5 feet 9 inches tall, long faced, with brown hair and eyes.
In 1760 Truby married a student at the Moravian Seminary in Bethlehem,
Sybilla, daughter of Hans Dietrich Bauman and his wife Eva Elizabeth Weil. In
1771 he came to what is now Westmoreland county, patented three large
tracts of land from the Colony, and prepared a home for his family. This was
the beginning of Greensburg. The following year he moved his wife and
family of five children to the new frontier.
One of Truby's first activities was to build a blockhouse - Fort Allen. Other
settlers moved in, and to the little community growing up around him he gave
the name Newtown, after the near his boyhood home. After the burning of
Hannastown, county-seat Pittsburgh, Hannastown and Newtown contended for
the location of the new court house. Distance, the location of the new
Pittsburgh-Philadelphia pike running through Newtown, and , above all, the
influence of Truby, brought success to Newtown. The Board of Commissioners
on December 10, 1785, agreed with Truby, General Wm. Jack, and Ludwig
Otterman for the purchase at a cost of six pence for two acres of land upon
which to erect public buildings. Truby further agreed to lay out additional
building lots. The following year the court house and jail were erected, and
the name of the community changed to Greensburg.
In 1774 Truby was a Commisioner for Westmoreland county. On June 11,
1777, he was commissioned on of the Justices of the Peace, with power to
administer the oath of allegiance to the new State. In February, 1778, he
was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1787 he was appointed
Wood Ranger, and in 1790 commissioned Lieutenant Colonel in Harmar's
campaign against the Indians, commanding with Major James Paull the
battalion of Pennsylvania Militia.
The founder of Greensburg died February 20, 1802, having been preceded in
death by his wife Sybilla who died August 24, 1801.

The Bible is now in the possession of the C. G. Brisee Genealogy Library,
Irwin, Iowa.