When Robert Burton Abernathy was born about 1813, in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States, his father, William Harley Abernethy, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Melvina Rockett, was 24. He died in Pontotoc, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States, and was buried in Pontotoc, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Scottish: habitational name from Abernethy in southeastern Perthshire. The placename is of Pictish origin, meaning ‘mouth of the river Nethy’.
History: This was the name of a cadet branch of MacDuff earls of Fife and one of the surnames of the Scots who settled in northern Ireland during the ‘plantation’ in the 17th century, and it was brought to the US as the name of a Southern plantation owner (in a different sense of the word ‘plantation’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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