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CLOSE FAMILY BIBLE

Transcribed from the Close Family Bible, 1869; Bible Vol 7, BL 384, State Historical Society of Iowa-Iowa City.  All information was transcribed as written in the original documents; the format in marriages, births and deaths represents the original page format as closely as allowed. Transcribed Sept 2019 by J. Hindman, Iowa City Genealogical Society.

Please be sure to periodically search the “Obituary Board” at http://www.iagenweb.org/johnson/ for related information this transcriber will be posting.    For information on the Chalmer D. Close residence (currently referred to as “The Mansion”), readers may want to view “Iowa City’s Close House”/The Gazette/Cedar Rapids, Iowa/19 Nov 2017/Page 23A.

  MARRIAGES

Samuel Close
To
Semantha Dodge
Feb 14th 1827 		Manley T Close Jr
To Mrs
Harriet Comstock
Oct 30th 1877
Manly T Close
To
Catherine Snyder
Aug 24th 1851  		Rufus M Close
To
Alice M Zell
June 23d 1881
Manley T Close
To
Harriett H Smith
Oct 25th 1877  		 Anna S Close to
Geo. C. Albright
Dec 24 - 1912

BIRTHS

Samuel Close
Feb 6th 1802		Manley T Close
Jan 3rd 1829
Semantha Dodge
March 28th 1808 		Catherine Snyder
May 20th 1832
Manley T Close
Jan 3rd 1829 		Manley T Close Jr.
Apr. 15th 1855
Chalmer D Close
Sept 7th 1832		 George S Close
Oct 14th 1857
Sylvester M Close
Sept 23d 1839 		Rufus M Close
June 26th 1859
Francis A Close
July 30th 1844  		Emma F Close
Jan 24th 1862
  
   BIRTHS
  
Harriet Smith Close
Feb 3d 1842
Anna S. Close
Dec. 18th 1879
Edwin Carter Albright
Oct 8 1915
Harriet Close Albright
Jan 12- 1922

DEATHS
  
Emma F Close
Oct 1st 1863 		Sylvester M. Close.
Aug 6th, 1872
Catherine Close
July 23d 1876 

 C D Close
Apr 22d 1890
Samantha D Close
June 28th 1881  
  M. T. Close
Sept 14th, 1903
Samuel Close
Oct 11th, 1883 		Harriet Hollister Smith Close
Nov 9 - 1920

In Commemoration of the seventy eighth birth day of Samuel Close we the undersigned subscribe our names with our ages attached.
Done at Iowa City, Iowa on this the 6th day of February A. D. 1880 at the house of Manley T. Close oldest son of the said Samuel Close and Samantha Close who were married February 14th A. D. 1827.

    Samuel Close                78
    Semantha Close            72
    William H. Squire            82
    Orilla Remington            76
    James B. Smith            72
    Mahala Smith                70

The above named persons have again met and subscribed their names on this the 11th day of June 1881.

        William H. Squire             83
        Samuel Close                79
        Orilla Remington            77
        James Burr Smith            73
        Semantha Close            73
        Mahala Smith                71

The undersigned met at the house of Samuel Close on this the 6th day of Feby 1882 to commemorate his 80th birthday.
       
    Samuel Close                80
    Azariah Pinney                78
    Orilla Remington            78
    James B. Smith            74
    Mahala Smith                72
    S E Gunsolus                70
    N Gunsolus                57

 Page updated 5 May 2020