Abraham is a son of John Fine and Nancy Jenning Lee Fine. His siblings are: Mary, Elizabeth Hill, Sarah Hill, Peter (mortally wounded at Battle of Wilson's Creek), Mahala Walker, Nancy, Minerva Taylor, John and Martha Starrett. He was married in Sweetwater, Monroe Co., TN to Mary S. Harrelson 07/03/1838. They moved to Greene Co., MO around 1840 and had the following children: John, William, Nancy, Catherine, Winfield and Narissa. Abe was a blanksmith by trade. He apparently went to the California gold rush and then was divorced by Mary in 1853. In a letter from 1857 his brother Peter, of Dade Co., said Abe was on the Mexico border speculating in Mexican war bounty land. He returned to Greene Co. to take his family and slaves to land he own in Williamson Co., TX north of Austin. When he freed his slaves he gave them each 40 acres, but one black lady stayed with him for many years. He had evidently married Sarah Jane Goss before 1858 when his seventh and last child Abraham Lee was born in Texas. He is on the 1880 census of Sugar Loaf twp., Boone Co., AR with Jane and Abraham. The widowed Abe was living with son Abraham in Taney Co., MO for the 1890 census. Shortly after 1890 he returned with the black lady to his daughter Narissa in Greene Co. where he lived until his death in 1910.
MO Death Certificate
MO Death Certificate
Abraham is a son of John Fine and Nancy Jenning Lee Fine. His siblings are: Mary, Elizabeth Hill, Sarah Hill, Peter (mortally wounded at Battle of Wilson's Creek), Mahala Walker, Nancy, Minerva Taylor, John and Martha Starrett. He was married in Sweetwater, Monroe Co., TN to Mary S. Harrelson 07/03/1838. They moved to Greene Co., MO around 1840 and had the following children: John, William, Nancy, Catherine, Winfield and Narissa. Abe was a blanksmith by trade. He apparently went to the California gold rush and then was divorced by Mary in 1853. In a letter from 1857 his brother Peter, of Dade Co., said Abe was on the Mexico border speculating in Mexican war bounty land. He returned to Greene Co. to take his family and slaves to land he own in Williamson Co., TX north of Austin. When he freed his slaves he gave them each 40 acres, but one black lady stayed with him for many years. He had evidently married Sarah Jane Goss before 1858 when his seventh and last child Abraham Lee was born in Texas. He is on the 1880 census of Sugar Loaf twp., Boone Co., AR with Jane and Abraham. The widowed Abe was living with son Abraham in Taney Co., MO for the 1890 census. Shortly after 1890 he returned with the black lady to his daughter Narissa in Greene Co. where he lived until his death in 1910.
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MO Death Certificate
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