Abi was born about 1800 in South Carolina per the 1880 census of her daughter, Clarissa Edwards Crook. 1880 is the first census which asked for parents state of birth.
Abi Holloway and John Edwards were married in Upson County, Georgia on 30 August 1827.[1]
She passed away about 1840.
Abi was born about 1800. (Her sister Edna/Edney was born about 1805). She passed away in a 31 Dec 1840 when her sister Edna married John Edwards, her husband.
Abi was d/o Peter Holloway and Fannie DAWSON. After her death, her husband, John Edwards Jr, married her sister, Edna Holloway.
-.noting in that household that there are two males shown as age bracket 20-30 + one male under 5 + one female age bracket 20-30 (Sister Mary Edwards Landers was living next door)
". . . I give and bequeath, at my death, to my son, John Edwards, one negro woman, by the name of Rebecca, which he now has in his possession. "
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