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Hiram Abney

Birth
Edgefield County, South Carolina, USA
Death
unknown
Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
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h/o Millie Hazel Abney...need verification his burial is in Odd Fellows.

Elijah Hogan, grandfather of John Beverly Hogan, subject of this sketch, was numbered among the very first settlers of Oktibbeha County, whither he came with his family in 1829. He first located where the village of Osborn now stands and in 1831 removed to the site of the City of Starkville, where he bought an Indian cabin and established his home therein. He was one of the founders of the present thriving City and he continued as resident of the county until his death, which occurred in 1842. The old homestead has been sold but the family retains an acre of the ground, the place in which the remains of this honored pioneer are interred.
The maternal grandfather of John B. Hogan was HIRAM ABNEY, who was of stanch English stock, the lineage being traced back for more than 1,200 years. A representative of the family was at one time Lord Mayor of the city of London. Hiram Abney came with his family from South Carolina to Oktibbeah County, Mississippi in 1837, and here be continued to reside during the remainder of his life. Cicero A. Hogan (who married Hiram Abney’s daughter, Elliot) was reared and educated in Oktibbeah and became one of the influential and honored citizens of this section of the State……
• copied from Mississippi Contemporary Biographer, Vol III by Dunbar Rowland, 1908
h/o Millie Hazel Abney...need verification his burial is in Odd Fellows.

Elijah Hogan, grandfather of John Beverly Hogan, subject of this sketch, was numbered among the very first settlers of Oktibbeha County, whither he came with his family in 1829. He first located where the village of Osborn now stands and in 1831 removed to the site of the City of Starkville, where he bought an Indian cabin and established his home therein. He was one of the founders of the present thriving City and he continued as resident of the county until his death, which occurred in 1842. The old homestead has been sold but the family retains an acre of the ground, the place in which the remains of this honored pioneer are interred.
The maternal grandfather of John B. Hogan was HIRAM ABNEY, who was of stanch English stock, the lineage being traced back for more than 1,200 years. A representative of the family was at one time Lord Mayor of the city of London. Hiram Abney came with his family from South Carolina to Oktibbeah County, Mississippi in 1837, and here be continued to reside during the remainder of his life. Cicero A. Hogan (who married Hiram Abney’s daughter, Elliot) was reared and educated in Oktibbeah and became one of the influential and honored citizens of this section of the State……
• copied from Mississippi Contemporary Biographer, Vol III by Dunbar Rowland, 1908


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