Chambers Co. AL - OBIT:  Rev. Nathan Hubert Abernethy

Submitted by Mary Abernathy Meyer <meyerma@webtv.net>
     
     REV. NATHAN HUBERT ABERNETHY (1880-1949), METHODIST DISTRICT SUPT.
                                      
     I have in my possession an original newspaper clipping of the
     obituary for my uncle, Rev. N. H. Abernethy, who was born in
     Chambers County near Buffalo on September 29, 1882. On December 8,
     1912 he married Sara Haskell Betts in Birmingham (Jefferson Co.)
     AL. He died January 26, 1949 while serving as district
     superintendent for the Jasper (Walker Co.) district
     of the Methodist Church. He spelled his surname "AbernEthy" while
     my father and all the other Abernathys I know (except his sons)
     spell it "AbernAthy." I do not know from what newspaper this
     obituary was taken. It reads:
     
     REV. ABERNETHY SERVICES TODAY: RITES HELD FOR METHODIST SUPT.
     JASPER, Jan. 19 (Special)--Final rites will be said this afternoon
     in Jasper First Methodist Church at 2 p.m. for the Rev. N. H.
     Abernethy, 66, Jasper district superintndent of the Methodist
     Church, who died Monday night. The body will lie in state from noon
     until time for the service.
     
     Rev. Abernethy died in Walker County Hospital due to a heart
     condition. He entered the hospital Jan. 14. He had been district
     superintndent nearly four years and six yars ago was pastor of
     Fairfield Methodist Church.
     
     He had been pastor of the Eleventh Street Methodist Church in
     Gadsden and held other pastorates.
     
     Officiating at the service will be Bishop Clare Purcell, of
     Birmingham, and Rev. Edwin Branscomb, of the First Methodist
     Church, Jasper. Burial will be in Oakhill Cemetery.
     
     Surviving are the widow; four sons, Bubert [misprint for Hubert],
     Hoyt, John and David, the latter two students at the University of
     Albama; two brothers, Thomas Nelson and Robert Abernethy, the
     former of Bessemer Rt. 5 and the latter of Marbury, Ala.; and a
     sister, Mrs. L. B. Sorrell, of Birmingham.
     
     Honorary pallbearers will be the ministers of the Jasper and North
     Alabama districts.
     
     Active pallbearers will be th Rev. Wallace Lovett, Winfield; Rev.
     J. L. Wheeler, Jasper; Rev. Robert Buggs, Cordova; Rev. Ben F.
     Tingle, Bessemer; Rev. Nelson Guthrie, West End; Rev. O. K. Lamb,
     Tuscaloosa; Dr. Paul S. Halet, Jasper, and Rev. A. L. Archibald,
     Huntsville.
     
     ***
     Rev. Abernethy's widow Sara survived him more than 30 years. His
     parents were John Thomas Abernathy b May 31, 1854 in Chambers
     County, Alabama, who worked at Leverett's old mill, and Dorthula
     Nelson Cole b June 5, 1854 in Chambers Co., AL. John's parents were
     James William Thomas Abernathy and Frances Joanna Creed. Dorthula's
     parents were David Lawson Cole and Nancy Rasberry Vineyard.

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