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Note: Abner was employed by the Southern Railway for a period and later by the L&N Railway. He worked for that company when the line was laid from Corbin, Kentucky to Knoxville, Tennessee. He was with the L&N for about 50 years, leaving for a brief time to farm. He began as a Sectionhand and retired as the Supervisor of Maintenance of Way Division on the Corbin-Atlanta Division. He was a railroad construction engineer who supervised building bridges in the Tennessee area for L&N Railroad. When he died, Abner was the Supervisor of Bridges and Buildings, Knoxville and Atlanta Division for L&N Railroad Company. He began his railroad career with Southern Railway at the age of 14 as a water boy, later coming to the L&N as bridge carpenter and being promoted to Bridges and Building Supervisor on 1 Apr1926. He retired 31 Jan 1950. On 9 April 1904, Abner Hamblin purchased about 130 acres of land from H.B. Garner of Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, USA. It is recorded in Book W, Vol. 2 pages 13-14, with the Anderson County Register of Deeds. Abner Hamblin paid $1100 total using 5 promissory notes (1 for $300 and 4 for $200 annually). The land is located in District 8 of Anderson, Tennessee, USA. Also on 10 Nov. 1916, the deed was recorded in the Register's Office, Anderson, Tennessee, USA in Book H, Vol. 3, pages 61-62 of a real estate transaction whereby Abner Hamblin had purchased land for $1225 at public auction on 13 Nov. 1915 from J.C. Scruggs, Clerk and Master of the sale. The dimensions of the land are given but no acreage is specified. There is no specific location given except that it is in the 8th Civil District in Anderson, Tennessee, USA and it borders Jesse Worthington's corner and line "which tract is known as the Farmer tract and is fully described in deed to Malinda M. Worthington, recorded in Book of Deeds 'V' Vol. 1, pages 58-59 in the Register's Office of Anderson County, Tennessee." Abner Hamblin and Josie Dagley were married by W.L. Dotson on 24 Dec 1911 in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, USA. It is recorded by the Clerk of the County Court on page 377 of Book 6. In approximately 1911 following the death of his father, Lum, Abner and his wife, Josie, moved their home from Marlow, Tennessee (across Pine Ridge in Dutch Valley) to his farm west of Clinton, Tennessee on the Oliver Springs Road, now part of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This is in the current Elza Gate section of Oak Ridge. Abner had purchased the farm which been formerly owned by the Garners. He had allowed his father to live there and that is where Columbus Hamblen died. Abner and Josie moved their family to 22322 Highland Avenue, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, USA in 1926. He and Josie were members of Epworth Methodist Church on Highland Ave. On December 29, 1942, the federal government condemned 6282.5 acres of land totally (see Minutes of the District Court of the Eastern District of Tennessee) to form part of the Oak Ridge National Lab where the Atomic Energy Commission was to do their work. Abner and Josie Hamblin owned about 162 acres in tract D-317 on State Highway 61 just west of the Clinch River. It was purchased from them for $6,000. The graves of Columbus Hamblen and John Hamblen were there and were moved to Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, USA. 1880 Census: Dist. 11, Hawkins, Tennessee (3 months old at time of Census) 1900 Census: Dist. 8, Anderson, Tennessee 1920 Census: Dist. 8, Anderson, Tennessee 1930 Census: Highland Ave., Knoxville, Tennessee 12 Sep 1918, WWI Draft Registration, signed up in Anderson, Tennessee; address: Rural Rt. #3, Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee; FHL Roll No. 1852852.
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