Don Cummer, who is a speechwriter and author in Ottawa, has written a terrific blog post, illustrated with plenty of photos, about how he received a Bible that was found 40 years ago by a stranger and about the family who once owned it.
The first marriage entered in the Bible is for David Cummer who married Abigail McKergan on March 24, 1824 at Markham in the Home District, County of York, Province of Upper Canada.
David was the seventh of the 13 children of Jacob and Elizabeth (Fisher) Cummer. In 1797, Jacob and Elizabeth and their first three children (Elizabeth was expecting her fourth) had come to Upper Canada by conestoga wagon from Pennsylvania. Jacob and Elizabeth were the first to clear a homestead in the wilderness north of York (now Toronto).
Abigail was born on November 2, 1797, in Harwich, Ontario, in modern-day Chatham-Kent, which is in the southwestern part of the province — not far from Wallaceburg.
To read the blog post, visit Another Family Bible — Even Older!.
Don has written three fiction books for young readers that follow the adventures of two boys during the War of 1812. Information about these books is on his website.
