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  1. Jesse ABELL: Birth: 15 SEP 1778 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland. Death: 10 MAR 1846 in Calvary, Marion Co., Kentucky

  2. Janet Ann "Fanny" ABELL: Birth: 10 AUG 1780 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland. Death: 9 JUN 1843 in Calvary, Marion Co., Kentucky

  3. Samuel ABELL: Birth: 1782 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland. Death: 1862 in Union Co., Kentucky

  4. James Samuel ABELL: Birth: 31 AUG 1784 in St. Mary's Co., Maryland. Death: 2 FEB 1876 in Divernon, Sangamon County, Illinois

  5. Ignatius ABELL: Birth: ABT 1788.

  6. Elizabeth "Betsybeth" ABELL: Birth: 24 JUL 1788 in Marion Co., Kentucky. Death: 10 FEB 1831 in Calvary, Kentucky

  7. Eleanor "Nellie Ellen" ABELL: Birth: 9 NOV 1790 in Washington Co., Kentucky. Death: 25 JAN 1841 in Larue Co, Kentucky

  8. Robert Abner ABELL: Birth: 1792 in Calvary, Washington Co, Kentucky. Death: 28 JUN 1873 in Louisville, Kentucky

  9. Mary ABELL: Birth: 1794 in Washington Co., Kentucky. Death: OCT 1805 in Marion Co., Kentucky

  10. John ABELL: Birth: ABT 1794 in Kentucky.

  11. Bennet ABELL: Birth: 1796 in Kentucky. Death: AFT 1850 in Illinois

  12. Margaret ABELL: Birth: ABT 1805 in Kentucky. Death: 2 OCT 1806 in Marion Co., Kentucky


Sources
1. Title:   The Abell Index
Author:   William Russell Abell, John Wathen Abell and Victor A. Abell
Publication:   West Lafayette, Indiana, 1994

Notes
a. Note:   1800 Federal Census for Washington Co., Kentucky - no page # Rev. war veteran, St. Mary's Co., Maryland militia. Came to Rolling Fork Settlement about 1788. Died while on a trip to Maryland. Represented Nelson/Washington counties in the state legislature. Served as Nelson county magistrate in 1788. John Wathen Abell records a 13th child, Janet. She and Janet Ann "Fanny" may be the same person. Robert Abell, son of Samuel Abell III; died in Maryland September 13, 1802, aged 46 years; married Margaret Mill of Maryland. She died February 19, 1818, aged 59 year at St. Thomas, Ky. After several years spent about Loret undoubtedly selected Calvary as a place of settlement f his kin and neighbors of St. Mary's County, Maryland. He and his oldest brother Samuel Abell IV bought lands on Cloyd's Creek near the river. He was recommended for magistrate in 1788 with Hannaniah Lincoln, gentleman; w elected several times to represent Nelson and then Washingt County in the Legislature and as a member of the first Constitutional Convention. As a magistrate he presid the first term of the Washington County Court held at Springfield in June 1792. He was a sort of country lawye wrote many wills, deeds and other instruments, but does n seem to have had the thrift usual in his family. His litt fortune was soon gone and becoming involved in debt in 18 he left Kentucky for no known reason and went back to Maryland on a visit, it is said, where he died. Children listed in "Revolutionary Patriots of St. Mary's County" - Peden 1920 Newspaper article ABELL Tombstone This was taken from the Marion Falcon, a newspaper in Marion Co., KY. Workers uncovered a tombstone at Holy Marys this week that read - The stone is erected to the memory of Robert Abell who died in Maryland, his native State, September 3, 1802, aged 46 years; Margaret Mills, his wife, of Maryland, February 19, 1818, buried at St. Thomas, KY, aged 59 years; their daughter, Mary, died October, 1805, the first burial in this cemetery; their oldest daughter, Ann Thomas, born August 10, 1780, died June 9, 1843; her husband, Bennett, born August 4, 1772, died August 15, 1840; their daughter, Elizabeth Buckman, born July 24, 1778, died February 10, 1831; her son, Pius A., born June 3, 1809, died August 25, 1838; his wife, Lucinda Raley, born June 14, 1814, died June 8, 1841; her son, William, born January 3, 1814, died May 19, 1853. RIP Was erected by Father Robert


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