When Washington Abernathy was born in 1853, in Tippah, Benton, Mississippi, United States, his father, John Abernathy, was 30 and his mother, Rebecca Abernathy, was 30. He lived in Northern Division, Marshall, Mississippi, United States in 1860. He died in 1878, at the age of 25.
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Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
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’).
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