File contributed for use in Alabama Family Group Sheet Project by:
Martha Gatlin January 16, 2006, 6:31 pm
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Husband: James W.t. ABERNATHY
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Born: 3 Aug 1833
at: GA
Married: 14 July 1853
at: Chambers Co., AL
Died: 26 Apr
1917 at: Chambers Co., AL
Father: Samuel ABERNATHY
Mother: Jane BOYD
Other Spouses:
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Wife: Frances
Joanna CREED
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Born: 8 Oct 1832
at:
Died: 22 July
1910 at: Chambers Co., AL
Father: Meshack CREED
Mother: Susan MCDONALD
Other Spouses:
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CHILDREN
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Child:1M John Thomas ABERNATHY
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Born: 31 May
1854 at: Chambers County
Married: 19 Nov 1874
at: Chambers County
Died: 22 Aug
1908 at: Verbena, AL
Spouses: Dorthrula NELSON
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Child:2M William Rankin ABERNATHY
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Born: 9 May 1856
at: Chambers County
Married: 15 Nov 1877
at: Chambers County
Died: 7 Dec 1911
at:
Spouses: Sarah C. MAXEY, Kendrick
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Child:3M Samuel Meshack ABERNATHY
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Born: 4 Nov 1858
at: Chambers County
Married: 23 Feb 1882
at: Chambers County
Died: 18 Jan
1947 at: Chambers County
Spouses: Sarah Mary HEWELL
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Child:4M Andre Weston ABERNATHY
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Born: 20 Sept
1867 at: Chambers County
Married: 6 Oct 1887
at: Chambers County
Died: 3 May 1926
at: New Orleans, LA
Spouses: Nettie Alice MCCORD
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Child:5M Robert Fields (doc) ABERNATHY
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Born: 1871
at: Chambers County
Married: 27 Dec 1892
at:
Died: 1945
at: Chambers County
Spouses: M. Ellen FETNER
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Child:6M Joseph W.t. ABERNATHY
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Born: 18 Aug
1865 at: Chambers County
Married:
at:
Died: 16 Oct
1866 at: Chambers County
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Child:7M Infant (?) ABERNATHY
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Born: Jan 1861
at:
Married:
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Died: 27 Sept
1861 at: Chambers County
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Additional Comments:
James William Thomas Abernathy was called Jim. He was a Corpral in
Co. I, 47th
ALA, Inf. CSA. He enlisted April 18, 1862 at Loachapoka, AL. He was
at Sharpsburg,
Fredericksburg, Suffolk, wounded at Chickamauga, present at Lookout
Valley,
Knoxville, Wilderness, Hanover Junction and Gaines Mills per the Civil
War
Database at Alabama Department of Archives and History. His war records
show that
he was discharged as being sick/ a diabetic. Family history has it
that he was
blind in his old age. He and is wife are buried at Macedonia Baptist
Church Cem.
in Chambers County.