This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ABERNATHY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iVB.2ACI/2356.4.1.1 Message Board Post: TRYING TO CONNECT: I am descended from Rev. (M.E.) Joseph Thomas Abernathy, b. 1823 TN. (Prob. Giles Co.?) His father was a David Abernathy, b. 1790 NC; found in Shelby Co., AL census,1830, 1840, and Macon CO., AL census, 1850. Rev. J.T. was admitted to the ministry in 1855, @ Eutaw, AL Conference. He d. 1859, in Coosa Co., AL. His son, Joseph Robert Alexander Abernathy, was my GGF,(b. 1858, AL). Jos. Robert's elder brother, David Nathaniel Abernathy, was also a Methodist Episcopal Minister. NOTE: Rev. J.T. named his first two sons: James, and Thomas, and Rev.David named his first son: David, and 2nd son: Robert. Any help is really appreciated! Otis Fuller