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Asbury Arnold Abney

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Asbury Arnold Abney

Birth
Edgefield County, South Carolina, USA
Death
4 Nov 1866 (aged 49)
Bossier Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Haughton, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, USA GPS-Latitude: 32.4939861, Longitude: -93.4618056
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ABNEY, Asbury A., politician, civic leader. Born, South Carolina, 1819. Removed to Bossier Parish, La. Married, 1844, Catherine McDade, native of Alabama. Political career: president, Bossier Parish Police Jury, 1849; clerk of court, Bossier Parish, 1858-1860; state representative, 1861-1864; state senator, 1865-1866. Co-owner of the Bossier Times, 1859-1860. Master of the Bellevue Masonic Lodge 1853-1857, 1866. Died, Bossier Parish, 1866.

Sources: Walter Prichard, ed., "A Tourist's Description of Louisiana in 1860," Louisiana Historical Quarterly, XXI (1938); Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana (1890)

(Information provided by Robert Lachney.)
ABNEY, Asbury A., politician, civic leader. Born, South Carolina, 1819. Removed to Bossier Parish, La. Married, 1844, Catherine McDade, native of Alabama. Political career: president, Bossier Parish Police Jury, 1849; clerk of court, Bossier Parish, 1858-1860; state representative, 1861-1864; state senator, 1865-1866. Co-owner of the Bossier Times, 1859-1860. Master of the Bellevue Masonic Lodge 1853-1857, 1866. Died, Bossier Parish, 1866.

Sources: Walter Prichard, ed., "A Tourist's Description of Louisiana in 1860," Louisiana Historical Quarterly, XXI (1938); Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana (1890)

(Information provided by Robert Lachney.)


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