Sarah Elizabeth Abernathy

Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth

When Sarah Elizabeth Abernathy was born on 31 March 1833, in Savannah, Hardin, Tennessee, United States, her father, Smith Abernethy, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Ramsey, was 22. She married John Wesley Lentz on 16 November 1848, in Limestone, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Limestone, Alabama, United States for about 10 years and Hillsboro, Lawrence, Alabama, United States in 1880. She died in 1890, in Lawrence, Alabama, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Lentz Cemetery, Caddo, Lawrence, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Wesley Lentz
1824–1868
Sarah Elizabeth Abernathy
1833–1890
Marriage: 16 November 1848
Theodore F Lentz
1850–1912
Permelia Roxanna Lentz
1853–
Caldonia A Lentz
1855–1882
Elizabeth Cordova Lentz
1856–1954
Orlana Pernolia Lentz
1859–1946
Emily A Lentz
1862–1863
Ambrose Lentz
1869–1870

Sources (11)

  • Sarah Lentz, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Sarah E Sentz, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  • L E Lentz in entry for Henry Calvin Lentz and Norah Lentz, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"

World Events (8)

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

Name Meaning

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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