This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SeB.2ACE/178.189.2.2.1 Message Board Post: The only Abernathy family that lived in Corsicana (the county set of Navarro County) was that of George Henry Abernathy who was born in Giles Co. about 1851 and married Mallie E. Bean. They had 4 children but none of them have living descendants so the family has died out entirely. Old man Abernathy died back in the 1940's (I think about 1944) and his wife outlived him by a few years. My grandparents bought their home and land from them and lived next door to them for years. They had a son named Rolla (pronounced like it was Raleigh) that was the oldest and he married a woman named Jessie May but they didn't have any children. Rolla died fairly young. Then they had a son that got killed by a Houston and Texas Central Train in the 1890's but I can't remember his name though I've heard it through the years. Next child was Wade Bell Abernathy and he lived in Corsicana and died in the 1970's. He married and his wife had a still born baby after she was 40 but that was their only ! child. The last child was Hazel Dell Abernathy and she was born in 1900 and inherited the homeplace and lived there the rest of her life. She was first married to a man named Joe Burge and had two sons, Billy and Robert (Bobby) Burge. Then she divorced him and married Charlie Ward but they divorced too. Billy Burge was an old bachelor and lived with his mother until she died. He was a little munchkin/gnome looking man and he and his mother would have loud screaming fights late at night when I was a child. Bobby Burge was a tall debonair man that smoked big cigars and had a beautiful wife named Sable. They didn't have any children and the family died out with Bobby's death. Hazel Abernathy Ward died in 1977 on Good Friday--that was though ironic by most of the neighbors as she was, er, not a very easy person to get along with. The children in the neighborhood called her "Witch Hazel" and were afraid of her. She had big pecan trees in her yard and I remember one winter when the leaves all fell off, there was a broomstick way up in the top of one pecan tree that she had used for threshing pecans. All the children were mesmerized thinking that was Witch Hazel's broomstick that she rode. There are plenty more stories about these people, but probably best not related on an internet genealogy forum---