This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iVB.2ACI/2356.4.1.1.1.4 Message Board Post: Pardon me for responding to an old message ( I do not often visit these message boards) but I just had to jump in here. I have a transcription of the will of Jacob Forney, dated 24 Jul 1803, in which he clearly lists his three sons and all 5 of his daughters by married name. It was not Christina Forney's sister Eliza, who married Judge John Henry Webb and whose descendants settled in Eutaw AL, but her neice, daughter of Peter and Nancy (Abernathy) Forney, whose given names were Frances Elizabeth. Jacob's sons-in-law (and wives) were: Abraham Earhart, wife Catherine John Young, wife Elizabeth David Abernathy, wife Christina John Abernathy, wife Susanna Robinson/Robertson Goodin, wife Eve. Of all of these, I have no data on John and Elizabeth (Forney) Young after their marriage. Apparently they left the state in search soon after, possibly to Habersham County GA, possibly further west. As for Otis' ancestor, it very much begins to appear that he may be a previously unidentified son of Joseph, son of David and Ann Turner Abernathy. There appears to be very little solid and non-contradictory data on Joseph; previously only one positively identified child: Betsy Tinnon, of Giles County TN. If Otis' circumstantial evidence is augmented by yet more data along the same vein as he's so far turned up, it could well be that his line could be reliably added to the Abernathy lineage of David Senior of Lincoln County. I think Otis may be very peeved with me, but my prodding has produced a greater effort on his part, with some interesting results.