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From: (Mary Meyer)
Subject: [ABERNATHY-L] Re: Turner Abernathy, son of David Abernathy and Martha Ann Turner
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:13:32 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: Ghas25@aol.com's message of Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:47:46 EST

Hi Sharon,
You mentioned Turner Abernathy, son of David Abernathy and Martha Ann
Turner. In THE ABERNATHY FAMILY, Elizabeth Denty Abernathy states:

"Not long since Mrs. R. S. Abernathy of Florida sent me copies of three
wills that were made in NC...the third will is that of David Abernathy,
Sr., whose wife, Ann, was living. Their children as mentioned in the
will, were eleven in number: Joseph, Robert, Patty, David, John,
TURNER, William, Moses, Nancy Forney, Betsy Perkins and Miles. He made
his son Moses and his son-in-law Peter Forney executors of the will
which was made in 1808 and probated in Lincoln County in 1814" (pp.
19-20).

"From Wheeler's HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA we learn that...Miles
Abernathy was in the Legislature of 1831, and Nancy Abernathy married
Gen. Peter Forney in 1783. One Miles Abernathy married Nancy W. Craft
in Brunswick Co. VA in 1802" (p. 20).

"One of the Rev. Robert S. Abernathy's sisters, Martha Abernathy
Doggett, now in her 81st year and living with a daugter in SC, says that
her grandfather, Turner Abernathy married Fannie Widener in Lincoln now
Catawba Co. NC. Catawba was taken from Lincoln, she explains. She
says: 'My great grandfather Robert, son of a Robert Abernathy, came
from VA some time before the Revolutionary War and settled in Rowan Co.
part of which is now Catawba [Co.] NC. He married Sarah Abernathy who
came from England. I do not know the names of his brothers and sisters,
but one of his sisters married Gen. Peter Forney, an officer in the
American Army" (p. 21).

Is that your Turner Abernathy? Mary in TX

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