When Ellen Abney was born on 31 October 1854, in Estill, Kentucky, United States, her father, Hugh Gibson Abney, was 27 and her mother, Virginia Walters, was 25. She married Jeptha M. Smyth on 27 April 1872, in Irvine, Estill, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Irvine, Estill, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died in 1882, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Abney Cemetery, Cottage Furnace, Estill, Kentucky, United States.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
When the Civil War broke out Kentucky had said they would be neutral. As the war raged on though, Kentucky supplied around 86,000 troops to the North and half of that to the South. Fort Jefferson in western Kentucky was the first fort occupied by the Union forces
On October 8, 1862, the Battle of Perryville took place between the Army of Ohio and the Army of Mississippi. It was the bloodiest battle on Kentucky soil. The Union lost around four thousand people and the Confederates lost around three thousand people. This was about one fifth of those that fought.
English: habitational name from a place in Derbyshire named Abney, from the Old English personal name Abba (+ genitive -n) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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