How to find a family bible?

Almost all family bibles are in some relatives attic. The key is to find the relative that has it, then beg and plead for copies. Only a few of these relatives are really into genealogy enough to share with the world on the internets. The big problem with family Bibles is that the person that started it usually has tens or thousands of descendants, so they can end up just about anywhere. Keep looking for the cousin's kids. One of them might know what happened to it.

A few places that might have digitized copies or help you find transcriptions

Family History Library in Salt Lake City has some on microfilm

The Family History Center or genealogical society near Cape Girardeau might have copies

State and county archives might have it, copies, or transcriptions

Rootsweb and ancestry.com message boards, post an inquiry and if the relative or someone that knows its whereabouts may come across it.

What you need to do is start researching your family history. Find the cousin, determine who her children were and possibly their children. Living relatives can often be found through social media sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Find her obituary. Local libraries often have newspapers archived on microfilm and will do an obituary lookup for a small fee. Children are almost always listed.

This is one time when the 14 day free subscription to Ancestry would be a good idea. Create a basic tree including the cousin's information and see if anyone else has her on their tree. Document her life using the census records, birth marriage and death records, old newspapers etc. and find her children's names that way. There is a pretty good chance at least some of them will be on the 1940 census. Contact every person with her on their tree to see if they are related and might know of the Bible or names of other siblings.

Also look for her on group family tree sites such as Geni and We relate..

Post to the Surname message boards your quest. Rootsweb.com, GenForum.com are two I know of, there may be more. Also do a search in each message board for first names of other family members as they or their descendants may have posted before you.

How long ago did the "cousin" die? Have you looked for an obituary? The Grandfather's obituary? Was she married with children for the 1930 0r 1940 censuses? Was she in MO and died before 1963? Mo State Gov website has scanned online death certificates 1905-1963 and you can look her last address and informant's name. If her grave site or any family member's grave sites (with the surnames you posted) are on Find-A-Grave then post a message there about looking for the Bible.