This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ABERNATHY Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zMB.2ACI/894 Message Board Post: Iron County Register Newspaper, Ironton, Missouri, July 13, 1882, Page 5. Mrs. JENNIE ABERNATHY, a colored woman, who has lived in this neighborhood for a great many years, died at her home near Ironton on Friday. She was born in North Carolina, about 1780, and was therefore over a hundred years old at the time of her death. "I am only posting the obituaries and am not researching these families. -- Marcine Lohman"