FRONTISPIECE
(copyright is hard to read at bottom right but date is 1895)

WHAT THEREFORE GOD HATH JOINED TOGETHER LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY
That  L  L  Bateman
and  Meddie  E  Corbell

WERE UNITED BY ME IN THE BONDS OF HOLY MATRIMONY
At  Aydlett on the 22 day of  December in the year of our Lord 1909 in Presence of Friends

Signed  J.  A.  Willoughby
Poplar Branch,

THEREFORE SHALL A MAN LEAVE HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER, AND
SHALL CLEAVE UNTO HIS WIFE, AND THEY SHALL BE ONE FLESH.

Gen. II  24

BIRTHS

John William Bateman Born Dec 12, 1910.
Rosa Lee Bateman Born Feb. 2, 1912.
Roscoe C. Bateman Born Aug. 6. 1913.
Elsie Mae Bateman Born Dec. 29, 1914.
Melvin Ray Bateman Born July 21, 1916
Willard Wilson Bateman Born July 22, 1918
Lloyd Linwood Bateman Born July 8, 1924

MARRIAGES

Rosa Lee Bateman
Albert Cartwright
was married on the 16 day of September 1928.

Roscoe Corbell Bateman
Margaret Overton
Married May 7, 1942

DEATHS

John William Bateman Died Jan. 20, 1911
Elsia Maie Bateman Died May 21, 1915
Melvin Ray Bateman Died July 21, 1916
Willard Wilson Bateman Died March 24, 1926

Note: John William Bateman, listed here is this Bible, is the same person as John L. Bateman listed in the Gilbert & Ann Bateman Bible.

Hello There !

My Name is
John Carlton Garrington
I arrived on July 24^th
I belong to
Mr. & Mr. G. F. Garrington
I weighed 8 lbs.

[John Carlton Garrington was a nephew of L. L. & Meddie E. Corbell Bateman and grandson of Benjamin Bailey & Martha Ann Owens Bateman.  He is buried in the Poplar Branch Baptist Church Cemetery.  His tombstone reads: John Carlton Garrenton born July 24, 1931 & died Oct. 13, 1931.]