Newspaper account of family member buying '''Bingham Family Bible '''at a Sale!!!
Henry Vest Bingham-son was George Caleb Bingham, I would like to find my cousin, Josephine Lawrence or her family, so we could get copies of the Bible pages. What a treasure, so happy it was purchased by family, it was by accident, she was just looking for a beautiful Bible :)
Josephine Lawrence, purchased
the Family Bible of famed Missouri George Caleb Bingham
"God has really smiled on me.” sald Mrs Lawrence,
who had wanted to buy a "blg beautiful Bble" from
her childhood church, the Freewill Baptist
Church, look as lt dld when she was a child.
*George Bingham. ls best known for paintings of river
portraits of famous politicians Jenn Tyres
a trustee of the Missouri Historical Society,
sald hls family emigrated to Missouri.
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