Re: Your Alabama Abernathys
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In reply to:
Re: Your Alabama Abernathys
Elizabeth Ferguson 8/29/04
Early History of Giles County, (page 35).
"James Tinnon, the father of Aleck and Robert Tinnon, and Joseph and David Abernathy, were early settlers on Richland and Haywood in the neighborhood of Tinnon's Mill.
The settlers on Haywood came some of them in 1808, others about 1809 or 1810. Tinnon and the Abernathys it is said, came by the Bumpass trail, leaving it somewhere south of Campbellsville."
( The reference here is to a Dr. Gabriel Bumpass, apparently for whom the trail was named, and not the rockiness of it).. I do hope, also,that the name was pronounced a la the French: Dumas, but one never knows...