ABRAHAM FANNIN[1]
1755 - 1810 (55 years) Submit Photo / DocumentSet As Default Person
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Name ABRAHAM FANNIN Born 1755 ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA Gender Male Died 1810 Age 55 years Buried 1810 Headstones Submit Headstone Photo Person ID I8476 Caudle Descendants Last Modified 29 Dec 2004
Father JAMES FANNIN, b. Abt 1716, CONNECTICUT (?) , d. Yes, date unknown Mother UNKNOWN Family ID F3047 Group Sheet
Family 1 NARCISSA MCALPIN Married - HE MARRIED NARCISSA MCCALPIN FIRST; HE MARRIED
BETTY BURTON SECOND.
Children 1. JAMES FANNIN, b. 1 Feb 1775, ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA , d. 19 Sep 1836 Age: 61 years 2. JOSEPH FANNIN, b. 1777, d. Yes, date unknown 3. JOHN FANNIN 4. JESSE FANNIN Family ID F3036 Group Sheet
Family 2 BETTY BURTON Married Bef 1811 Married Bef 1811 - HE MARRIED NARCISSA MCCALPIN FIRST.
Children 1. JACOB FANNIN, b. Between 1770 and 1780, SOUTH CAROLINA , d. Yes, date unknown 2. BURTON FANNIN, b. 1790, SOUTH CAROLINA , d. Yes, date unknown 3. ABRAHAM FANNIN, b. 1791, SOUTH CAROLINA , d. Nov 1850, COFFEE COUNTY, ALABAMA Age: 59 years Family ID F3028 Group Sheet
- HE MARRIED NARCISSA MCCALPIN FIRST; HE MARRIED
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Notes - CALLED ABRAM FANNIN.
REFERENCES: FANNIN, BILL AND PAULA, UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH DATA SAID
TO BE TAKEN FROM THE WORK OF JEWELL COGBURN RAISTY, RAMER, ALABAMA, 1993;
FANNING, LAWRENCE R., UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH DATA, CHAPIN, SOUTH CAROLINA,
1991; HOLCOMB (1), BRENT H., EDGEFIELD COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, MINUTES OF
THE COUNTY COURT, 1785-1795, SOUTHERN HISTORICAL PRESS, EASLEY, SOUTH
CAROLINA, 1979; IGI; SMITH(2), CHARLES B., THE FANNIN-FANNING FAMILIES,
EARLY SETTLERS OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA, PAPERS OF THE PIKE COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY, VOL. 7, NO. 2, TROY, ALABAMA, 1968.
ABRAHAM IS FOUND ON A PETIT JURY LIST FOR EDGEFIELD COUNTY, SOUTH
CAROLINA ON 13 APRIL 1789.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER. HE WAS A PRIVATE. HIS BIRTHDATE MAY HAVE
BEEN EARLIER THAN 1755 BECAUSE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS WERE NOTORIS FOR
NOT KNOWING THEIR AGE OR BIRTHDATES. THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN SURPRISED
ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF AGE AND BIRTHDAYS IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY.
HE LIVED IN ORANGEBURG DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA. HE WAS MARRIED
TWICE. HIS FIRST WIFE WAS NARCISSA MCALPIN (PER SMITH; HOWEVER, THE IGI
LISTS NARCISSA MCALPIN AS THE WIFE OF JAMES FANNIN. FANNING LISTS HER AS
NARCISSA MCCOLPHEN.) HIS SECOND WAS BETTY BURTON.
SINCE HE WAS BORN IN 1755 AND HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN 1748, ELIZABETH
SAFFOLD WOULD HAVE BEEN ONLY 7 YEARS OLD. SHE IS PROBABLY NOT ABRAM
FANNIN'S MOTHER. HOWEVER, THE BIRTHDATE COULD BE WRONG. WITH THAT IN
MIND I AM NOT GOING TO DISCONNECT HIM FROM THE OTHER CHILDREN. HOWEVER,
IT DOES NOT ESCAPE MY ATTENTION THAT THE OTHER KIDS WERE BORN SEVERAL
YEARS LATER AFTER 1867 WHEN JAMES AND ELIZABETH GOT MARRIED.
PRESTON MILFORD CAUDLE, SR. CONCLUDED FROM THE BIRTHDATES OF
JAMES' AND ELIZABETH'S OTHER SONS THAT THEY COULD NOT BE THE JOHN,
JAMES, AND DAVID [OR EDMUND] THAT THE HONORABLE JOHN C. FANNIN
MENTIONED. THE ONLY WAY THAT THEY COULD FIT IS IF JAMES FANNIN
(1739-1803) WAS MARRIED BEFORE HE MARRIED ELIZABETH SAFFOLD IN 1767.
THEREFORE I CONCLUDE THAT JAMES FANNIN (1739-1803) PROBABLY WAS MARRIED
BEFORE HE MARRIED ELIZABETH SAFFOLD. THIS IS PROBABLY THE REASON
FOR THE AGE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ABRAM AND HIS OTHER BROTHERS AND THE FACT
THAT ELIZABETH WAS ONLY 7 YEARS OLD WHEN ABRAM WAS BORN AND SHE DIDN'T
MARRY JAMES UNTIL 1767, 12 YEARS AFTER ABRAM WAS BORN. ALSO, JAMES AND
ELIZABETH DO NOT HAVE A JOHN OR JAMES OLDER THAN ABRAM OR OLD ENOUGH TO
FIGHT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. IN ADDITION, THEY DID NOT HAVE A SON
NAMED DAVID [OR EDMUND] OR ONE OLD ENOUGH AT THE TIME OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO HAVE BEEN A TORY.
THERE IS ANOTHER POSSIBILITY, HOWEVER, AND THAT IS THAT THE
HONORABLE JOHN C. FANNIN CONFUSED JAMES (1739-1803) FANNIN'S SONS WITH
HIS BROTHERS. MY RECORDS SHOW HIS BROTHERS AS JOHN, HIMSELF, ABRAM, AND
DAVID FANNIN. THIS IS PROBABLY WHAT HAPPENED. IT SEEMS TO BETTER FIT THE
TIME PERIOD INVOLVED.
I JUST NOTICED THAT I HAVE THE FOUR SONS THAT THE HONORABLE JOHN C.
FANNIN WAS TALKING ABOUT AS JAMES (1739-1803) FANNIN'S BROTHERS.
ABRAM FANNIN MAY HAVE HAD OTHER CHILDREN. FOR EXAMPLE, JOSEPH C.
FANNIN OF ORANGEBURG DISTRICT COULD HAVE BEEN ABRAM FANNIN'S SON AND A
WHOLE OR HALF BROTHER TO JAMES. WITH THE MORTALITY RATE WHAT IT WAS WHEN
HIS CHILDREN WERE BORN, HE AND HIS FIRST WIFE, NARCISSA MCCALPIN, COULD
HAVE HAD SEVERAL MORE CHILDREN WHICH DID NOT MAKE IT TO MATURITY.
AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, ABRAM SETTLED ON HIS FATHER'S OLD PLACE
NEAR SPRINGFIELD, THEIR FATHER BEING DEAD.
- CALLED ABRAM FANNIN.
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Sources - [S9779] VIARETTA KEITH, 601 GOLDEN EAGLE DRIVENORMAN, CL.
- [S9779] VIARETTA KEITH, 601 GOLDEN EAGLE DRIVENORMAN, CL.
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