Many Abernathy's in Lawrence County can trace their lineage back to Hardaway T. Abernathy.
Hardaway T. Abernathy was an early Lawrence County pioneer arriving in Lawrence County about 1838 and settling the area that would later become the Pinhook School District. He moved here from Fayette County Kentucky with a large family and his wife, Martha. More children were born after they arrived here in Lawrence County. In an unusual turn of events, the life of his spouse is recorded in more detail than is his, in the pages of the Lawrence County Courthouse files.
Martha filed divorce papers in January 1844 describing her husband who neglected to provide for his family the necessities of life and exercised the utmost cruelty towards his children and herself. He repeatedly took family articles of clothing which she had provided with her labor and industry for herself and her children and sold them to procure 'ardent spirits,' and when she begged him in terms of tenderness and affection not to deprive the family of those things he threatened to take her life, and finally wholly abandoned his family and went to parts unknown. Hardaway filed a statement denying her allegations, but the divorce was evidently granted leaving Martha with 8 children under 20.
Hardaway left Lawrence County for Missouri and remarried.
Place: Paris, Monroe, Missouri, United States[10][11]
Sources
↑ Source: #S6 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Hardaway Teague Abernathy
↑ Source: #S6 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for George Anders Abernathy
↑ Source: #S6 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for George Anders Abernathy
↑ Source: #S6 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Hardaway Teague Abernathy
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZX-DLR : 4 April 2020), Hardaway Abernathy, Monroe county, Monroe, Missouri, United States; citing family 986, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6XT-C88 : 14 August 2017), Hardaway Abernathy in household of James R Abernathy, Paris, Monroe, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district ED 54, sheet 613D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,704.
↑ Source: #S6 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for George Anders Abernathy
↑ Source: #S6 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for George Anders Abernathy
↑ Source: #S6 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for George Anders Abernathy
↑ Source: #S6 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for George Anders Abernathy
↑ Source: #S6 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Hardaway Teague Abernathy
"Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28D-DN69 : 29 November 2018), Hardway T Abernathy and Martha Barns, 21 Apr 1825; citing Marriage, Fayette, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 9,014.
Divorce Papers: Lawrence County Courthouse, Lawrenceville Illinois
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Joshua Storment for creating WikiTree profile Abernathy-667 through the import of blubaum.ged on Dec 18, 2013.
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