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     Anna ABNEY Sr., daughter of Nathaniel ABNEY and Isabella MADISON, was born on 28 September 1778 in Edgefield County, South Carolina.¹ She must have diied very young because a second daughter was given the same name.²

Anna ABNEY Sr. died in 1779.¹

     Isabella ABNEY, daughter of Nathaniel ABNEY and Isabella MADISON, was born on 14 January 1788 in Edgefield County, South Carolina.¹

Isabella married Dr. William L. Fluker circa 1809.

Isabella ABNEY died on 22 May 1847 in Sumter County, Alabama, at age 59. She was buried in McGrew-Hart Cemetery, Coatopa, Sumter County, Alabama.

     Mary Elizabeth ABNEY, daughter of Azariah ABNEY and Mary Ann POPE, was born after 1822 in Edgefield County, South Carolina.¹

Mary Elizabeth ABNEY was named an heir in the will of Azariah ABNEY dated 1843 in Edgefield, South Carolina. "Secondly, I wish that the tract of land on which I now reside containing five hundred and twenty acres more or less remain unsold with my personal property until my daughter Mary Elizabeth shall arrive at the age of twenty-one or marry...

Fourthly, I wish that the rest of my children, to wit, Augustine, Nathaniel, Azariah and Mary Elizabeth to have given and delivered to them the sum of one hundred and twenty-two dollars in property such as the rest of my children have received when they shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years or marry.

Ninthly, I wish my daughters Augustine and Mary Elizabeth remain on the place and be supported until the division shall be made or they shall marry."¹ She never married. John Abney Chapman noted in his History of Edgefield that he never met Mad Bill or Hardy Abney, but attended the funeral of their sister, Miss Elizabeth Abney. The funeral sermon was preached by Dr. John Bolger, "a great Baptist preacher at that time" who had married a widow Wills, a sister of Azariah Abney.²

     John ABNEY, son of Nathaniel ABNEY Jr. and Sarah Canada, was born on 25 July 1814 in South Carolina.

John ABNEY died in 1849. He was buried in Meridian Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Weakley County, Tennessee.

     Lucinda married John Smith.

Lucinda ABNEY, daughter of Nathaniel ABNEY Jr. and Sarah Canada, was born on 13 February 1811 in South Carolina.

Lucinda ABNEY died on 20 March 1880 in Dallas County, Missouri, at age 69. She was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Leadmine, Dallas County, Missouri.

     Catherine ABNEY, daughter of Nathaniel ABNEY Jr. and Sarah Canada, was born in 1812 in South Carolina.

     Mary ABNEY, daughter of Nathaniel ABNEY Jr. and Sarah Canada, was born on 3 March 1816 in Stewart County, Tennessee. She was also known as Polly.

Mary married William Gray circa 1837.

Mary ABNEY and William Gray moved from Stewart County, Tennessee to Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois, after 1865.¹

Mary ABNEY died on 12 October 1874 in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois, at age 58.¹ She was buried in Vienna Fraternal Cemetery.

     Nathaniel ABNEY, son of John ABNEY, was born on 24 January 1834 in Stewart County, Tennessee.¹

     Nathaniel Asa ABNEY, son of Rev. Joseph Duncan ABNEY and Sarah SEARCY, was born on 25 May 1840 in Jasper County, Mississippi.¹

Nathaniel began military service in 1861 in Hopkins County, Texas, when he enlisted in Co. L 18th (Ochiree's) Texas Infantry. He later served in Co.I 17th (Mioore's) Texas Cavalry. He died in the Yankee prison at Camp Douglas in Chicago.²

Nathaniel Asa ABNEY died on 28 February 1863 at Camp Douglas POW Camp in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, at age 22.² He was buried on 1 March 1863 in Oak Woods Cemetary, Chicago, Illinois.

     Nathaniel Searcy ABNEY 14 fwb 1851, son of Paul Collins ABNEY and Margaret Elvira Fullerton, was born on 14 February 1851 in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.¹

Nathaniel Searcy ABNEY 14 fwb 1851 died on 9 October 1855 in Homer, Angelina County, Texas, at age 4. He was buried in Walker Cemetery, Redland, Angelina County, Texas.

     Cyrus Nathaniel ABNEY, son of John Wesley ABNEY, was born in 1852 in Arkansas.

Cyrus Nathaniel ABNEY appeared as head of household on a census enumerated 21 June 1880 in Moss, Columbia County, Arkansas. The household was listed as Cyrus N. Abney, a 26-year-old farmer; his father John W. Abney, 65, works on farm; his mother Sarah E., 55; brothers James H., 22, and Newton, 19, worked on farm; and his widower uncle Robert R. Hutchinson, 61, born North Carolina.

Cyrus Nathaniel ABNEY died on 27 February 1935 in Columbia County, Arkansas.