Abraham Toney was born circa 1758, in Virginia. He was a Patriot soldier in the American Revolutionary War and served under Capts. Edward Hampton and William Smith and Cols. John Thomas Jr., James Williams, Benjamin Roebuck, Henry White, Thomas Brandon, Hugh Middleton and Gens. Daniel Morgan, Francis Pickens, Nathaniel Green and Thomas Sumter. He fought in the battles of Wofford’s Iron Works, Musgrove’s Mill, Kings Mountain, Blackstock’s Plantation, Cowpens, Siege of Ninety-Six and Eutaw Springs. He probably met his first wife, Sarah Draper, daughter of Thomas and Lucy Coleman Draper, at the Gosher Baptist Church. Sarah was born in Virginia, October 6, 1758. They were married circa 1783, or before and lived in Union District, S. C. They had two children: William and Elizabeth. William was born circa 1784, and Elizabeth was born circa 1786. Abraham was the administrator of the estates of his brothers: Charles and Drury. Sarah, his first wife, was deceased before December of 1788, when Abraham married his second wife, Elizabeth Gibson. Some databases list Walter and Judah Johnson Gibson as Elizabeth’s parents. They first lived in Union District, S. C., and then moved to Spartanburg District, S. C. Abraham and Elizabeth Gibson Toney had three children: Judith born circa 1791; Abraham Toney Jr. born circa 1797; and Nancy Toney born circa 1805. Abraham and his wife, Elizabeth, and possibly their children, were members of the Goucher Creek Baptist Church. After Abraham Toney Sr. died on March 8, 1837, in Spartanburg District, S. C., his wife, Elizabeth Gibson Toney, moved with her daughter, Nancy, and son-in-law, Gabriel Rainwater, to Cherokee County, Georgia.
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