Lina Cecil ABNEY

F, b. 17 February 1870, d. 11 June 1955
Relationship
1st cousin 2 times removed of John Kennedy BROWN Jr.
     Lina Cecil ABNEY, daughter of Zachariah ABNEY and Alexandria Victoria DOSTER, was born on 17 February 1870 in Prattville, Autauga County, Alabama.

Lina married Walter F. ROBINSON on 13 December 1911 in Prattville, Autauga County, Alabama.1

Walter F. ROBINSON died on 23 September 1927 in Robinson Springs, Elmore County, Alabama, at age 67 leaving Lina as a widow.

Lina Cecil ABNEY appeared as head of household on a census enumerated 7 April 1930 in Robinson Springs, Elmore County, Alabama. The household was listed as Lina Robinson, a 59-year-old widow and farmer; her brother Sam H. Abney, a 57-year-old farm laborer; and Sol Chapman a 58-year-old black household servant. They lived on the Prattville-Wetumpka Road.2

Lina Cecil ABNEY died on 11 June 1955 in Prattville, Autauga County, Alabama, at age 85.3,4 She was buried in Robinson Springs Cemetery.

Her obituary appeared 16 June 1955 in the The Prattville Progress, published in Prattville, Alabama. Funeral Services Monday for Mrs. Lina Robinson-- Mrs. Lina Abney Robinson, widow of the late Walter Fay Robinson, died Saturday, June 11th, at the Prattville General Hospital.

Mrs. Robinson, daughter of Capt. Zach Abney and A. Victoria Doster Abney, was born February 17, 1870, and had lived her life in and near Autauga. Her father was a prominent lawyer and served Autauga as Register in Chancery until his death in 1911.

She was married in 1911 to Walter Fay Robinson of Robinson Springs. Since 1944 she had made her home with her nephew Zach Abney.

Surviving are one brother, Samuel H. Abney, and one nephew, Zach Abney, both of Prattville.

Funeral services were held Monday at 11 a.m. at Griffin Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. H. W. Rice officiating. Burial was at Robinson Springs Cemetery with Griffin Funeral Home conducting.
Last Edited=28 Mar 2020

Citations

  1. [S939] "Alabama, Select Marriages, 1816-1957" , FHL Film Number: 1289191, p 518.
  2. [S602] 1930 U. S. Census, Elmore County, Alabama, Lina Robinson household 39, Roll: 13; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 17; Image: 958.0; FHL microfilm: 2339748.
  3. [S878] "Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index, 1908-1974", FHL Film Number: 1908899.
  4. [S11] , Tombstone Inscription, Author's Personal Collection, Prattville, Alabama.

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