Benjamin T. ABNEY1

M, b. 15 January 1817, d. 26 March 1849
Relationship
1st cousin 4 times removed of John Kennedy BROWN Jr.
     Benjamin T. ABNEY, son of Zachariah ABNEY and Tabitha TOWNSEND, was born on 15 January 1817 in Edgefield District, South Carolina.1

Benjamin T. ABNEY appeared on a census, enumerated 7 August 1820, in the household of his father Zachariah ABNEY in Edgefield District, South Carolina. He was listed as a free white male under 10.

Benjamin T. ABNEY died on 26 March 1849 at near Higgins Ferry in Saluda County, South Carolina, at age 32.1,2 He was buried in Zachariah Abney Cemetery.3

His obituary appeared 11 April 1849 in the The Edgefield Advertiser, published in Edgefield, South Carolina. "Died on Friday, March 26, at the residence of his mother, near Higgins Ferry, in Edgefield District, Benjamin T. Abney, in about the 30th year of his age. His disease was complicated, but the immediate cause of his death seems to have been tubercular of the brain."2
Last Edited=5 Aug 2017

Citations

  1. [S276] Edgefield Chapter South Carolina Genealogical Society, ABCDs of Edgefield, Zachariah Abney Bible, pg. 115.
  2. [S950] Carlee T. Anderson, Edgefield Death Notices And Cemetery Records, pg. 74.
  3. [S902] Mary B. Parkman, Our Saluda County Ancestors, pg. 19.

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