County of Christian, Kentucky.  Historical and Biographical.  Edited by 
William Henry Perrin.  F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 339-340.

HENRY G. ABERNATHY was born April 30, 1825, in Brunswick County, Va. He 
is the third of four children born to Raleigh H. and Martha T. Abernathy 
(nee Avery).  Amanda, the eldest, is the widow of Col. Thomas Rowlett, 
of Petersburg, Va.; John E. died in Ballard County, Ky., and William A. 
is still a resident of the same county. Their parents died many years 
past in Virginia, and in 1842 Henry G. removed to Tennessee, locating in 
Montgomery County, near the State line, where for four years he engaged 
in farming. In 1846 he again removed, this time settling further north, 
in the southern portion of Christian County, Ky.  Here he devoted 
himself chiefly to agricultural pursuits, with which he combined 
mercantile business for some time, as well as engaging for several years 
in teaching school, in which profession he manifested especial fitness. 
He came to Hopkinsville in 1869, and that year erected the first tobacco 
warehouse built in that city.  Since that date he has been the pronouced 
leader in the local tobacco market, and is still actively engaged in the 
tobacco trade. Mr. Abernathy was married in Christian County to Miss 
Ophelia F., daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Leavell.  Mrs. Abernathy 
is a native of Christian County, descending from one of the oldest as 
well as most honorable families of Kentucky.  They have but one child - 
a son, named Henry H. Abernathy, junior member of the firm of H. G. 
Abernathy & Son.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Abernathy are members of the Baptist 
Church of Hopkinsville.  A portrait of Mr. Abernathy will be found in a 
group elsewhere in this volume.

Abernathy Avery Leavell Rowlett
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Ballard Brunswick-VA Montgomery-TN

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