Hi Anita-- I have 2 ABNEYs in Sumter Co: Hardy J. ABNEY b. 1810 Edgefield, SC d. 7 May 1845 Sumter Co., Alabama m. 24 Sept 1835 Sumter, Ala. +Martha ROAN b. 24 February 1818 Morgan Co., Ga. d. 9 July 1895 Choctaw Co., Alabama. Silas McEachern BLANN b. 14 Jan 1873 Sardis, Panola Co., Mississippi d. 24 Oct 1949 York, Sumter Co, Alabama. [Mayor of York] m. 22 April 1903 Maplesville, Bibb Co., Alabama + Irma ABNEY b. 21 March 1878 Maplesville, Al d. 6 Feb 1966 York, Sumter Co., Alabama Silas M. BLANN was a brother of my grandmother, Maggie Day [BLANN] FORT who lived in York from 1939 until 1959. Lynda Greene Allen