Dingman Documents Page 1

This small Bible was given to Ada Belle Morgan when she was about 9 years old from her teacher. Inside the front cover is written: Dear Savior can I bring no tribune to bestow no poor but free will offering any love and faith to show
This is the cover page. The HOLY BIBLE containing the OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: translated out of The Original Tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. NEW YORK: AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, instituted in the Year MDCCCXVI Agate, 24 mo. 1874.
Inbetween the Old Testament and the New Testament Ada Belle wrote in pencil the following lines. Years and years later Evelyn Dingman Goranson wrote over the fading lines in ink. Miss Ady Bell Morgan Born 1866 August 4 Humboldt County Iowa Ady B Morgan Cherokee Cherokee Co Iowa age 11 yrs 1878 Mother died Thursday June 28 1889 age 64 Father died March the 26 1890
On the next page Ada Bell recorded the births of her three children. The last six names are the children of Clara Isabella Dingman and her husband Francis Marion Dingman. Mary Ellen Born March the 5 1884 Clara Isabella Born April the 16 1886 Francis Marion Born November the 6 1889 [first written as Marian but written over so it reads Marion] Allie Levern Born October 2, 1905 William H. Born May 3, 1907 Gladys E. Born Jan 5, 1909 Virgil M. Born Jan 8 1912 Zella M. Born Dec. 7, 1914 Evelyn L.Nov. 26 - 1922
Inside the back cover is written: Miss Ada B. Morgan From her teacher Emma Storie [Stove?] September 10, 1875