Abbott Family Groups

NC > TN > IL > MO

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Husband: BENJAMIN ABBOTT

source: Rowan Co deed abstracts.

17 Dec 1784. (10:159) John Brevard, sheriff, to Benjamin Abbott, in execution against Daniel Hackett on L42 debt owed Wm Brandon, for L 110.2 as highest bidder, 586 acres on the east side of Swearing Creek adj Rd Lane, Joshua Barton and McCulloh's line, granted by Granville 22 Feb 1759.

25 Mar 1785. (10:453) State grant #94 for L 43.9 specie. To Benjamin Abbott, 343 acres on Abbotts Creek adj Samuel Parks, sold as confiscated property of H.E. McCulloh.
[Other confiscated property of H.E. McCulloh, being land on Abbotts Creek, was sold to John Lewis Beard in 1785.]

Abbotts Creek runs roughly N-S, east of Winston-Salem. Near Lexington and High Rock Lake.

source: Rowan Co will of Benjamin Abbott probated 1816 names sons Joseph, William and Starlin.

Wife: MARY HUDGENS

source: Rowan Co will of Wm Hudgens.

Child #4: SARAH ABBOTT

source: Rowan Co deeds. Sarah had bought a house in Salisbury.

source: Rowan Co will of Sarah Abbot probated August 1823 names brothers Joseph, William and Sterling Abbot.

Child #5: STERLING (Starlin, Starling) ABBOTT

I have no estate records for Sterling.

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Husband: STERLING H. (=Hudgens?) ABBOTT

source: Rowan Co will of Benjamin Abbott probated 1816

names sons Joseph, William and Starlin.

source: Rowan Co will of Sarah Abbot probated August 1823

names brothers Joseph, William and Sterling Abbot.

source: 1840 Lincoln Co TN census

one male under 5, one 5-9, and Sterling in his 40's; one female under 5, 2 age 5-9, and wife in her 30's.

m(2) abt 1840 Moore/Franklin Co TN: Frances ----

source: 1850 Lincoln Co TN census p897-193.

Sterling reports age 55, b NC. Owned RE $184. Wife Frances (?) b NC. Rowan Co marriage record names Nancy Merril; Biog record reports Susan Merrill; 1850 census has Frances.

4 kids at home. In 1850, a boy 11-15 should be reported, but he is no longer in the household; no older children are.

source: 1 Aug 1860 census Franklin Co TN district #7, Winchester P.O.

Sterling Abbott age 65, day laborer, b NC, illiterate; Frances age 50, b NC, illiterate; Margaret age 17, Delila age 15, Sophia M. age 12; all kids b TN. Of the 9 households on the page, 4 report owning RE, but Sterling does not. He is one of the poorest, reporting only $25 PE, as did one neighbor; 2 others estimated $50, one nothing!, two $100, three $140-150 and one $400. How could it be that he didn't own his land in TN at this time?

source: material received from James Slankard of SC. "Samuel Richard Randolph Family History" citing information "taken from Allan R. Edwards book of 1959." Says Logan Randolph went to live with Henderson Abbott and married Henderson's only child; that Henderson was the son of Sterling Abbott of TN. I don't know anything more about Henderson, or where he may fit in.

Child #8: BENJAMIN ABBOTT

source: 1840 Lincoln TN census

There is a boy under 5 plus a boy aged 5-9 in the family. Neither is with his father in the 1850 census, so whichever Benj was, he left home before 1850.

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Husband: JAMES MADISON ABBOTT

source: National Archives, Bounty land files; Act of 55-80 W.T. 34185

Veteran James M. Abbott, 1836, private. Service: Capt. Tipps, Col. Bradford, TN Mounted Volunteers, Florida War 1836.

Served 18 Jun 1836 - 17 Jan 1837.

Discharge certificate refers to Gen. Armstrong's Brigade and is signed by Armstrong.

James volunteered in Lynchburg and was mustered in in Fayetteville. As they were mounted volunteers, we can assume the troops rode south to FL, through Alabama and southern Georgia. When his six months were up, he was discharged in New Orleans.

He married the year of his discharge, and started a family in Tennessee. About the 11th year of their marriage, the couple relocated to Golconda, Pope Co IL. James claimed land there, from the Shawnee Town land office, in 1850 with the bounty certificate he had for his Seminole War service. In 1855, he applied for a second grant of land, based on Congress's new allocation. His first request was sent back from Washington with the note that the signatures on the two bounty requests didn't match! So James had to gather people who knew him and make affidavits to the Pope Co clerk in support of that 2nd bounty land application.

source: 1840 census, Lincoln Co TN district #1

James Abbott: 2 males under 5, 1 male and 1 female 20-29.

Jonathan Merrel Sr and wife, James's grandparents, then in their 70's, plus his uncle Jonathan Merrel Jr, he and wife in their 40's, with kids, are enumerated soon after JMA.

source: Biographical Record of Johnson, Massac, Pope and Hardin Counties, IL. &uot;... a soldier in the late war and died while fighting for the Stars and Stripes, was born in NC in 1814, and was a son of Sterling Abbott, who was a native of the same State, whence he removed to TN ... (JMA) learned the trade of a blacksmith in his younger days but did not follow it many years. In the fall of 1848 he emigrated to this State" (IL) "with his family, making the removal with teams and cooking and camping by the way. On his arrival he selected a tract of Government land five miles south of Golconda, erected a log house, and commenced at once to clear a farm, upon which he resided until his enlistment in 1864 in Company K, 136th Illinois Infantry. He did his duty faithfully at the front, but the extreme hardships to which he was sujected were too much for him to bear, and the same year he died in the service, ... and ... was laid to rest at St. Louis.
His wife survived him many years, her death occuring on the home farm in 1889. She, too, was a native of NC, her maiden name being Mary Evans, and her parents were Elliott and Elizabeth (Speck) Evans."

N.B.! I have entered those names, but do not trust the accuracy of this report. I have not been able to find any record confirming the names.

Wife: MARY EVANS

Listings of children are inconsistent.

Dau Ann / Mary Ann is not listed in Bible record copied into widow's pension file.

source: Jonathan Abbott, Blytheville AR, had an exact birthdate.

source: 27 Jul 1870 census Golconda Pope IL

Husband absent; has died in the Civil War, 1864.

Mary reports RE $2000, PE $300.

Kids here: Mary Ann 22 (?), Lucinda 16, Susan J 13, Spencer J 10, Liza Jane 10, Geo W 8.

Add'l persons in hshld: Julia Gordon 33, Maggie Gooch 16, Hannah Dayhuff 14, Mathilda 12.

Next hshld is that of son Thos, age 28.

source: 16 Jun 1880 Pope Co IL census

Mary age 61, in hshld of son John and his wife Cornelia and their 5 kids, along with dau Anna.

Died age 70. Buried in Pope Co, IL, 100F Cemetery, twnshp 13 S range 7 East sec Row 26.

Notes

Husband: SPENCER JOHNSON ABBOTT

Spencer was an itinerant Christian minister; preached in southeastern MO and in Baton Rouge, LA; maybe in Arkansas and elsewhere? Would like to hear from anyone with leads.

Wife: FANNIE PHILLIPS

I haven't identified Fannie's family in the censuses or elsewhere, but an online correspondent has given her mother's name. We believe she is a sister of Sarah E. Phillips b 22 May 1854, who married Spencer's older brother Sterling six years before Spencer and Fannie had their marriage in Sterling's house.

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Husband: FRED ABBOTT

Married again after retirement to Siddie --- in Los Angeles Co, CA.

Child #1: DOROTHY A. ABBOTT

Dorothy retired from a long career with Famous-Barr Co, St Louis, where she worked with fine china and crystal.

Attended a Methodist church in the St Louis area.

Child #2: GENEVA H. ABBOTT

Geneva has had a lifelong career as an artist. She and Don lived in St Louis until Don's retirement in 1980.

Studied commercial art at Hadley Vocational School, Saint Louis, after graduation from Central High; worked as a commercial artist and shoe designer at International Shoe Co. in St. Louis until the late 1940's. Quickly became a member of the active artists' section of the St. Louis Artists' Guild and was often an officer of the association. Past President of the St. Louis Independent Artists. Active with the Ruth Kelso Renfrow Club and the Monday Club (Webster Groves). An exhibitor in many local and regional juried shows with her oils, watercolors and copper enamels. Landscape artist and portraitist for the most part. Geneva continues to paint, to sell her work and to execute commissioned work, and to exhibit. Visit her online gallery!

Member of First Presbyterian Church, Hilton Head, SC. Earlier: Ladue Chapel; Friedens' United Church of Christ; Giddings-Boyle Presbyterian Church, all in the St. Louis area.

Child #3: FREDA ABBOTT

Freda was a soprano, and had a long career in opera in Italy.