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Christopher Columbus Abney

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Christopher Columbus Abney

Birth
Alabama, USA
Death
Apr 1871
Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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Reported age at time of death was 25 years, so evidently born about 1845.

Original record from Sexton's ledger book shows C. C. ABNEY, born in the City [Columbus], died aged 25 years of Consumption [= tuberculosis]; buried 27 APR 1871 as a Pauper Resident of Columbus, location in cemetery not reported. Sexton was James LYNAH.

The 1870 census of “outside the city of Columbus,” Muscogee County, Georgia, shows: Harriett ABNEY (aged 58 years, born in South Carolina, keeping house), Wm. J. ABNEY (31 AL “in bed 7 years,” blind, holding personal assets valued at $300), Columbus C. ABNEY (24, birth place not reported, a wagoner), Tabitha ABNEY (22, birth place not reported, “at home”), James ABNEY (17 AL tinsmith, cannot read or write), Cornelia ABNEY (27 LA “at home”), & John ABNEY (10 GA, cannot write).

Buster Wright's "Burials and Deaths Reported in the Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer [Newspaper], 1832-1872" (1984), p. 1, shows: C. C. ABNER [sic] died aged 25 years in Columbus, Georgia; buried 27 APR 1871 (from Sexton's report published 12 JUL 1871).

Note also (from Mary Jane Galer's list of persons buried in the Old Cemetery section of Linwood): [infant of] C. C. ABNEY died aged 2 1/2 years; [no date of death or burial reported - buried in Old Cemetery section]. And from the same source, this stillborn infant was buried in the Old Cemetery, but no further information is reported.

Robert ABNEY, Contributor #48473675, reports that Christopher is the son of Joab ABNEY (1805-1869) and provided a parental link to his memorial.

The 1860 census of the Southern Division, Chambers County, Alabama, shows: Joab ABNER (aged 45 years, born in South Carolina), a carpenter holding $220 in real estate and $200 in personal estate, with evident wife Harriet ABNER (50 SC) and children (all born in Alabama): William ABNER (21), Columbus ABNER (15), Tabitha ABNER (13), Harriet (11), and James (8).

The 1870 Census Mortality Schedule shows: Joab ABNER, married White male, born in South Carolina, carpenter, died in Mar. 1870, aged 65 years, in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, of typhoid fever.

This grave is probably not identifiably marked. Indigent burials were scattered throughout the cemetery, not concentrated in a particular part.
Reported age at time of death was 25 years, so evidently born about 1845.

Original record from Sexton's ledger book shows C. C. ABNEY, born in the City [Columbus], died aged 25 years of Consumption [= tuberculosis]; buried 27 APR 1871 as a Pauper Resident of Columbus, location in cemetery not reported. Sexton was James LYNAH.

The 1870 census of “outside the city of Columbus,” Muscogee County, Georgia, shows: Harriett ABNEY (aged 58 years, born in South Carolina, keeping house), Wm. J. ABNEY (31 AL “in bed 7 years,” blind, holding personal assets valued at $300), Columbus C. ABNEY (24, birth place not reported, a wagoner), Tabitha ABNEY (22, birth place not reported, “at home”), James ABNEY (17 AL tinsmith, cannot read or write), Cornelia ABNEY (27 LA “at home”), & John ABNEY (10 GA, cannot write).

Buster Wright's "Burials and Deaths Reported in the Columbus (Georgia) Enquirer [Newspaper], 1832-1872" (1984), p. 1, shows: C. C. ABNER [sic] died aged 25 years in Columbus, Georgia; buried 27 APR 1871 (from Sexton's report published 12 JUL 1871).

Note also (from Mary Jane Galer's list of persons buried in the Old Cemetery section of Linwood): [infant of] C. C. ABNEY died aged 2 1/2 years; [no date of death or burial reported - buried in Old Cemetery section]. And from the same source, this stillborn infant was buried in the Old Cemetery, but no further information is reported.

Robert ABNEY, Contributor #48473675, reports that Christopher is the son of Joab ABNEY (1805-1869) and provided a parental link to his memorial.

The 1860 census of the Southern Division, Chambers County, Alabama, shows: Joab ABNER (aged 45 years, born in South Carolina), a carpenter holding $220 in real estate and $200 in personal estate, with evident wife Harriet ABNER (50 SC) and children (all born in Alabama): William ABNER (21), Columbus ABNER (15), Tabitha ABNER (13), Harriet (11), and James (8).

The 1870 Census Mortality Schedule shows: Joab ABNER, married White male, born in South Carolina, carpenter, died in Mar. 1870, aged 65 years, in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, of typhoid fever.

This grave is probably not identifiably marked. Indigent burials were scattered throughout the cemetery, not concentrated in a particular part.


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