Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885,
Larue Co.

JAMES C. ABNEY was born August 25, 1832, in the south part of La Rue [sic]
County, and is the eldest child of Robert M. and Catharine P. (Smith)
Abney, parents of eight sons and two daughters.  Robert M. Abney was born
on the banks of the Green River, Green County, January 5, 1808, and while
yet single moved to and settled on the south fork of Nolin Creek, where he
died in November, 1879, a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  He
was a son of John Abney, of Virginia, who married Hamer McClannahan, and
came to Green County, Ky., about 1800.  Mrs. Catharine (Smith) Abney was
born in Danville, Ky., and was a daughter of Aaron Smith, who married
Rebecca Fry, an aunt of Gen. Fry.  James C. Abney, who was reared a farmer,
at twenty commenced for himself on rented land, and at twenty-one purchased
his first farm.  At twenty-two, he started a grocery store at Nelson
Furnace, near his present home.  He soon quit the grocery and bought 202
acres two miles south of his present place, the most of which he improved.
November 13, 1856, he married Sophia N. Slaughter, daughter of John S. and
Mildred F. (Cash) Slaughter, natives of Hardin and Grayson counties,
respectively.  Mrs. Mildred F. Slaughter was a granddaughter of Rev. Warren
Cash, a soldier of the Revolution for seven years.  John S. Slaughter was a
son of Thomas K. Slaughter, of Virginia.  In 1878 J. C. Abney moved to
Buffalo to educate his children, and in June, 1881, located where he now
resides on twenty acres, which he has improved with residence and store.
As far back as 1875 he had had a stroke of paralysis, which led to his
entering into mercantile life.  Mr. Abney had three brothers in Company F,
Fifteenth Kentucky Regiment, of whom two were killed at Perryville and one
at Atlanta.  Of his four children, John Robert and William A. are deceased;
Josie A. married H. Gardner, and Charles M., business partner with his
father, married Nora Beavers, daughter of B. G. Beavers, of Magnolia.  Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Abney are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; Mr.
Abney is a Mason, and was formerly a Whig, having cast his first
presidential vote for Millard Fillmore.

Abney Smith McClannahan Fry Slaughter Cash Gardner Beavers
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Green-KY VA Hardin-KY Grayson-KY

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