From Susan Knight Gore, Memphis, TN, Prodigy #TBSR29B. Adds thatEdmund Abell was married to Elizabeth Thompson who died about 1819.From Charmaine Welker, Prodigy PRJF38C "...the will of her motherCatherine Cooper Spalding proven 21 Aug 1775 Leonardstown, MD that shementioned "several children of my beloved daughter Susanna Abell,deceased". Ms. Welker refers to a manuscript stating that it does notfollow the line of descent from Susanna Spalding and Edward Abell. (Check correct spelling of his name.)

THE SPALDING FAMILY OF MARYLAND, KENTUCKY AND GEORGIA FROM 1658 TO 1965
by Hughes Spalding, 929.273 Sp18sg V.1.2 pg 19:

"Robert Abell, brother to Alethaire Abell Spalding, had led his ownand a group of other Catholic families to the Rolling Fork in 1788 (inNelson County, Kentucky). He had prospered and was the leading man inthe community.

"Robert Abell represented Nelson County in the General Assembly whenKentucky was a part of Virginia, and when Kentucky became a state in1792; and when Washington County was carved out of Nelson County in thesame year, he was one of the first Justices for the new County andrepresented it in 1795 and 1799 in the General Assembly of Kentucky. Herepresented Washington County in the first Constitutional Convention andwas the only Catholic in that body.

"Benedict Spalding, Jr., was fortunate to have such a prominent andrespected brother-in-law for his sponsor."

THE SPALDING FAMILY OF MARYLAND, KENTUCKY AND GEORGIA FROM 1658 TO1965,
by Hughes Spalding, 929.273 Sp 18sg v1.2, FHL, pg 19:

"Benedict Spalding, Jr., was the oldest son of Benedict and ElizabethMattingly Spalding. He was born in Maryland in December, 1746, and diedin Kentucky August 1, 1815. He married Alethaire Abell, daughter ofSamuel and Eleanor O'Bryan Abell, about 1769. She was born in St. Mary'sCounty, Maryland, about 1749, and died in Kentucky in 1821."

See THOMAS JENKINS OF MARYLAND, 1670 by Edward Felix Jenkins,O.S.A.,pg 39-40: "In 1770, Benedict Joseph Spalding m. Alethea (Alethaire)Abell, who was b. ca. 1753. These two dates are from the COMPENDIUM OFAMERICAN GENEALOGY, Volume V, page 557. Alethea Abell was the daughterof Samuel and Eleanor (Bryant) [O'Bryan] Abell of St. Mary's County.Mrs. Eleanor (Bryant) Abell was a devout Catholic, while her husband wasa zealous Protestant, and High Sheriff of St. Mary's County. It is saidthat he was content that she should rear the girls in her religion butwanted the boys reared in his, and was very much annoyed when, inspiredby their mother's
piety, they all became Catholics too. Tradition tells us that he wasreceived into the Catholic Church before he died."

See CATHOLIC FAMILIES OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND by Timothy J. O'Rourke , p53, for births of Samuel, Robert and Abner recorded at St. Andrew'sEpiscopal Church, Leonardtown, Maryland. Extracts were of families whowere presumed to be Roman Catholic. The complete parish records werepublished by the St. Mary's County Historical Society in their bulletin"Chronicles."

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SQ pg 3194: They had six children.

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!NOTES:
SQ 3195: Charles Allen Absher, son of James and Fannie (Sparks)
Absher, was born on September 8, 1885. He married Rena Belle Chamber s.

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!NOTES:
SQ 3194: They had two children.

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!NOTES:
SQ 3194: They had three children.

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!NOTES:
SQ 3194: They had three children including Harold Absher, Jr. wh o has
been most helpful in sharing information about the Absher family.

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SQ 3194: They had one child.

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SQ 3195: James Malthus Absher, son of James and Fannie (Sparks)
Absher, was born March 2, 1887. He married Dora Bell Dixon, a daught er
of John and Callie (Jackson) Dixon. James and Dora had nine children.
(a) Emma Mae Absher was born on Septermber 14, 1909. She marrie d(1st)
James T. Wood and (2nd) Charles P. Logwood.
(b) Ina F. Absher was born on June 9, 1911. She died on May 6, 19 81.
She married Jack J. Preas.
(c) Ulvia Absher was born on July 3, 1913, and she died on Augus t 23,
1981. She married Herman Fielder and they had two children.
(d) Fannie Idell Absher was born on Augut 10, 1916. She married C onDye
and they had four children.
(e) Marquis Paul Absher was born on February 19, 1919. He died on
February 24, 1966. He married Edith Barker and they had thre echildren.
(f) Reva Mary Absher was born on August 14, 1921. She married Ral ph
Deskins.
(g) James M. Absher, Jr., was born on July 16, 1925. He marrrie d(1st)
Madeline Summers and (2nd) Jackie E. Smith.
(h) Donald Blaine Absher was born on December 21, 1927. He marrie d(1st)
Lois Lambert and (2nd) Gladys -----."

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!NOTES:
SQ 3194: They had seven children.

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!NOTES:
SQ 3194: John Edward Absher was born on November 2, 1880. He marr ied
Rachel Cordelle. They lived at Fork Ridge, Virginia.

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!NOTES:
SQ 3194: They had three children.

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!NOTES:
SQ 3194: They had five children.

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!NOTES:
SQ 3194: They had four children.

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!NOTES:
SQ 3194: They had two children.

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!NOTES:
SQ 3194: "William Avery Absher was born on September 19, 1882. He
married Dallas Cook, probably about 1904. He died on April 1, 1931 , at
Red Ashe, (Tazewell County) Virginia, from a bullet wound in his abdo men.
He and Dallas had eleven children.
(a) Ira Tevis Absher was born on January 6, 1905. He married Anni eMae
Ratliff and they had one child.
(b) Charles F. Absher was born on October 5, 1906. He married Hel enL.
Gentry, and they had two children.
(c) Lemuel M. Absher was born on June 14, 1908. He married Edna E .Wells,
and they had three children.
(d) Bertie Helen Absher was born on March 1, 1910. She married Do ck
Robert Hunt on August 11, 1934, and they had six children.
(e) Mary V. Absher was born on November 22, 1911. She married Clarence
B. Shelton, and they had five children.
(f) Harold Absher was born on May 20, 1913. He married Virginia S .Akers,
and they had three children, including Harold Absher, Jr. wh o hasbeen
most helpful in sharing information about the Absher family.
(g) John Creed Absher was born on January 15, 1915. He married Virginia
Price, and they had seven children.
(h) Sadie Willie Absher was born on September 21, 1916. She marri edAndrew
C. Hutton and they had four children.
(i) Thelma M. Absher was born on January 11, 1919. She married Sa muel
Akers, and they had two children.
(j) William Jesse Absher was born on September 29, 1920. He marri edBelva
J. Dickerson, and they had two children.
(k) Fannie M. Absher was born on September 25, 1924. She marrie dKermit
Spence, and they had 3 children."

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SQ 3194: They had two children.

See the QUARTERLY for September, 1980, Whole No. 111, p. 2237, for alisting of the census record for 1900 in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma),Chocktaw Nation, including the widow Margare (Adams) Sparkst, her threechildren, and seven of the unmarried and one married child of Thomas E.and Martha (Curtis) Sparks. A note briefly tracing the family andreferring to the articles in the QUARTERLY relating thereto follows.

Albert Adix married Mabel Harrison and settled in Riverside, Californiaand ran a dairy. His Social Security Number was 562-36-4640.

L. Howard Adix grew up on the family farm near Ogden, greatly assistingwith the family chores and other jobs around the farm. It was this earlyinvolvement with agriculture that led L. H. to dedicate his life to theactive pursuit of farming. Howard first farmed near Ogden and then inthe spring of 1946, moved his farming operation to Ellsworth, Iowa. Healways had an avid interest in horses and continued this rewarding hobbyinto his retirement years. Mrs. and Mrs. Adix are members of theEllsworth United Methodist Church.

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Social Security records for Pearl Pigott, SS # 479-80-0517, show t hatshe
was born in June 30, 1892 and died in March, 1986. Her card was issu edin
Iowa and her last known residence was in Iowa, zip code area 51012, Cherokee.