The Gupton Family

Abner Gupton 

Abner, son of Robert Thomas and Henrietta Power

Abner James was born on 16 Nov 1841. While in the Civil War he was promoted to assistant-surgeon on the battlefield. He was examined by the medical board in 1863 which he passed. At the end of the war he returned home and began practicing medicine. In 1866 he moved to New Providence Tennessee and then in 1875 moved to Morley Missouri. In 1866 he married Mary F. Crow who was born in Alabama and the daughter of Issac Crow a native of South Carolina. He was active in his church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, where he was one of the trustees and Sunday School Superintendent. They had the following children:

• Fanny Bunch was born on 25 Jun 1867 in Montgomery Tennessee. She married the physician, Richard Alvin Sparks on 7 Sep 1892. He was the son of Jacob Sparks who was also a physician. Fannie died on 12 Feb 1952 in Howard, Missouri.
• Harrison was born in 1869 and died in 1878.
• Earnest Power was born on 11 May 1872 and died 12 Jul 1876.
• Mary Patterson "Pattie" was born 11 Jan 1879. She married John Maurice Beardslee on 26 Mar 1902. John was a merchant in first a dry goods store and then a traveling salesman in the hardward industry. Pattie passed away on 4 Aug 1948. 

Next up; James Gupton's other children - the ones that stayed in North Carolina.

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Pattie