ABRAHAM FANNIN[1]

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  • Name  ABRAHAM FANNIN 
    Born  1755  ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  1810 
    Age  55 years 
    Buried  1810 
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    Person ID  I8476  Caudle Descendants
    Last Modified  29 Dec 2004 

    Father  Ancestors JAMES FANNIN,   b. Abt 1716, CONNECTICUT (?) Find all individuals with events at this location,   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 
    Married: 1x1. JAMES FANNIN,   b. 1 Feb 1775, ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Sep 1836  Age: 61 years
     2. JOSEPH FANNIN,   b. 1777,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Married: 1x3. JOHN FANNIN
     4. JESSE FANNIN
    Family ID  F3036  Group Sheet

    Family 2  BETTY BURTON 
    Married  Bef 1811 
    Children 
    Married: 1x1. JACOB FANNIN,   b. Between 1770 and 1780, SOUTH CAROLINA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Married: 1x2. BURTON FANNIN,   b. 1790, SOUTH CAROLINA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Married: 1x3. ABRAHAM FANNIN,   b. 1791, SOUTH CAROLINA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 1850, COFFEE COUNTY, ALABAMA Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 59 years
    Family ID  F3028  Group Sheet

  • 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      REFERENCES: FANNIN, BILL AND PAULA, UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH DATA SAID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      FANNING, LAWRENCE R., UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH DATA, CHAPIN, SOUTH CAROLINA,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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S9779] VIARETTA KEITH, 601 GOLDEN EAGLE DRIVENORMAN, CL.


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