Exerpt quoted from "I Found No Skeletons - A Brief History of My Forebears", a biographical paper by Mary Emma Whatley Clarke, 1950:
". . .One day in October 1947 when visiting in my home, 3605 Bellaire Drive, South Fort Worth, my father, Cephas Vachal Whatley, reminisced about his family as follows: 'My grandfather, Vachal Davis Whatley, died many years before his wife Mary. She remarried a man by the name of Enoch Phillips. She outlived him and during her widowhood, made her home with my father {Aaron Brooks Whatley}. I remember well her snapping black eyes, and how she spanked me many a time!
"'I remember too when my great-grandfather Matthew David Lasater (sic) died. Grandmother Phillips went to the funeral and brought back her part of the estate in gold which amounted to $1000, a considerable amount of cash in that day. She also brought back an old rifle and gave it to my father, but it was burned up when the old farm was destroyed by fire. My Grandmother Phillips lived to be 96 years of age and is buried at Flat Rock Primitive Baptist Church, five miles north of Greenville, Ga.'"
Exerpt quoted from "I Found No Skeletons - A Brief History of My Forebears", a biographical paper by Mary Emma Whatley Clarke, 1950:
". . .One day in October 1947 when visiting in my home, 3605 Bellaire Drive, South Fort Worth, my father, Cephas Vachal Whatley, reminisced about his family as follows: 'My grandfather, Vachal Davis Whatley, died many years before his wife Mary. She remarried a man by the name of Enoch Phillips. She outlived him and during her widowhood, made her home with my father {Aaron Brooks Whatley}. I remember well her snapping black eyes, and how she spanked me many a time!
"'I remember too when my great-grandfather Matthew David Lasater (sic) died. Grandmother Phillips went to the funeral and brought back her part of the estate in gold which amounted to $1000, a considerable amount of cash in that day. She also brought back an old rifle and gave it to my father, but it was burned up when the old farm was destroyed by fire. My Grandmother Phillips lived to be 96 years of age and is buried at Flat Rock Primitive Baptist Church, five miles north of Greenville, Ga.'"
Family Members
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Charles P. Abernathy
1868–1919
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Ida Alice Abernathy Ragsdale
1869–1951
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Frances Ladora Abernathy
1872–1872
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William Gilbert "Gib" Abernathy Sr
1875–1953
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Ada A. Abernathy
1879–1881
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Ray Boyd Abernathy
1884–1947
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Adeline Lavinia "Addie" Abernathy Williams
1886–1963
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Etna Elizabeth Abernathy Watson
1888–1958
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Samuel Ross Abernathy
1891–1891
