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From: "Virginia L. \"Ginny\" Keefer" <>
Subject: Re: [ABERNATHY-L] (no subject)
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 09:40:12 -0400
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There were many corruptions of the name. Especially by the census takers.
They were all Abernethy originally- later Abernathy. Look at those two names
for furthering your ancestry. Stay with the censuses- looking at each 10
year census to trace your particular line. Ginny Keefer
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Subject: [ABERNATHY-L] (no subject)


> This is a new adventure for me, so please have patience with me. I am
> looking for information regarding Charles Abanatha (family spelling) I
> first find him in the 1850 census of McCrackin Co. Ky. That same year he
> married Sabra McIntosh of same co. They crossed the Ohio River and were
> married in Massac Co. Illinois. Apparently Ill.only required that the
bride
> be 18 years. Charles was a farmer and he and Sabra had 11 or 12 children.
> My grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Abernathy, was born in 1871. Charles
died
> in 1880, I believe, and Sabra died in 1912 . Her parents were William
> McIntosh, born 1789 in Robertson Co. Tenn. and Mary Catherine Moore, born
> around 1803 in Tenn. The 1850 census says he {Charles} was born in Va.
and
> was27 years old. In the same census, same co. and precinct. were listed a
> William and a John Abernathy , also born in Va. I don't believe that they
> were related to Charles. I think they were brothers of an Abernathy in
> Christian co. Ky. who had a tobacco warehouse. Any information woould
surely
> be appreciated. I am tired of referring to him as a "mushroom" who just
> popped in the 1850 census.
>
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