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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