Joseph M. Bible^{[1, 2]}

• Name	Joseph M. Bible
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I122475	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	Tillman Bible,   b. 22 Nov 1899, Tennessee ,   d. 2 Apr 1967  (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Bettie Celestion Cogdill,   b. 1 Oct 1905, Tennessee ,   d. 16 Feb 2003, Newport Medical Center, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee  (Age 97 years)
  Family ID	F43916	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Faye
  Family ID	F44905	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos

  (c)2009 NPT PHOTO BY DAVID POPIEL Joe Bible shows a rare and important photograph given to him in 1971. It shows astronaut James Irwin on the moon's surface during the Apollo 15 mission July 26, 1971.

  
  

• Sources

  [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 16 Feb 2003. Celestion Cogdill Bible obituary [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 25 Jul 2009. Newport surveyor has original Apollo 15 photos Author: David Popiel Source: The Newport Plain Talk Last week the nation and world focused on the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing but another anniversary is today and remembered by a Cocke County man. Joe Bible, who has been a surveyor most of his life, has a good reason to remember July 26, 1971. He was given a set of photos of the Apollo 15 moon landing by a NASA employee. Bible said the years have faded his memory and he cannot recall the name of the man who visited Cocke County to look at property here. "I don't remember why he chose to look here. I spent half a day showing him property," said Bible, who is now 77. As a result of his kindness and attention, the man gave to Bible six "freshly developed" black and white 8-by-10-inch official NASA prints of the moon landing. Apollo 15 was the fourth moon landing since July 1969. Apollo 15 was the first long-duration visit on the moon's surface from July 26 and concluded August 7, 1971. James Irwin was the lunar module pilot. For many years, he kept them on the wall of his office in Newport. The backs of the prints are stamped and dated for release in August1971, and in faded light blue ink offer some details as to the photographic subjects. Bible joked that he viewed the moon as "his next survey project." The man left, didn't buy any land, and Bible never saw or heard from him again. Some of the land Bible showed belonged to his late mother, Celestion Bible, who was 97 when she died in 1993. The Apollo missions "were real exciting to me," he said, and he recalled that his grandmother Cogdill did not believe that they actually took place. A lot of important technology from the moon missions is now in common use, and even surveyors using digital equipment benefit from it, said Bible.