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Drufner Family Bible
(still held by a Drufner descendant)

transcribed by Jennifer Dyer April 2009

*
notations in parentheses or brackets are additions I added for clarification. Everything else is transcribed in the order and as it was written in the family Bible.

(Inside Cover)
The Drufner Family 
5939 W.E. Blvd
New Orleans, LA

(Below: written records between Old and New Testaments on pages provided for family records)

BIRTHS
(written in upper right hand corner)Elvire R. Drufner Oct. 4, 1901-Oct. 31, 1998
Georgia Drufner         Oct. 28, 1896
Balthassar William      July 7. 1898
Leo Cornelius            Dec. 1, 1899
Balthassar William      Jan. 30, 1902
Roger Leo                  May 20, 1904
Donald Edward          June 18, 1907
Aloysius Adam           March 24, 1912

Mary Rose MacHauer  March 15, 1922
John Barry                 June 26, 1922
David H. MacHauer    May 12, 1924
Catherine Francis Drufner   March 9, 1928
John Barry Drufner     Oct. 29, 1929
Carolyn Ann Drufner   Sept. 22, 1930
Carolyn Sue MacHauer  April 21, 1932

MARRIAGES

Aloysius Drufner                Sept. 3, 1895
Rose Barry

Balthassar Drufner            Oct. 30, 1920
Elvire Rolland

Georgia Drufner                April 20, 1921
Evered H. MacHauer

Donald E, Drufner             May 1, 1926
Catherine Messenger

Roger S. Drufner                Dec 21, 1929
Marie Verrand Vial

(by word of mouth from the holder of the Bible:  Marie was adopted in New Orleans from an "Orphan Train" by Jimmy Davis.  She and Roger owned  a corner store on Milne & Polk Ave in Lakeview, New Orleans, LA, USA [building still stands on that location])

Deaths
Balthassar William            May 24, 1900
Leo Cornelius                   May 30, 1900
Aloysius Adam                Sept. 15, 1915
John Barry Drufner            June 26, 1922
Tassar's [daughter] Mary Drufner        May 1923
[Roger & Marie's daughter] Carolyn Ann        Nov 1, 1930
Aloysius A. Drufner            Jan. 1, 1953
Rose Barry Drufner            June 20, 1954
Balthassar William               Aug. 28, 1970

Georgia Mary Drufner        May 21, 1975

Roger Leo Drufner             Jan. 4, 1991
Donald Edward Drufner     March 17, 1989
Donald Edward Drufner      August 26, 1996
Marie V. Vial                     Dec. 21, 1997
Elvire F. Rolland Drufner     Oct. 31, 1998
C. Frances Drufner Spies    Oct. 21, 2007
Sue Short                            Dec. 20, 2008