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Catherine M. Dabney

Female 1795 - 1845  (50 years)


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  • Name Catherine M. Dabney  [1, 2
    Born 1795  Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Female 
    Died 9 Sep 1845  Woodville, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I248  Dabneys of Virginia
    Last Modified 18 Aug 2014 

    Father Capt. George Dabney,   b. 1740, Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1824, Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Price,   b. 1748, Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1819, Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Family ID F156  Group Sheet

    Family Seaton Grantland,   b. 8 Jun 1782, New Kent County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Oct 1864, Baldwin County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 20 Oct 1835  Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Last Modified 28 Feb 2011 
    Family ID F176  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • Catherine M. Dabney was born to Captain George Dabney of Dabney’s Legion and Elizabeth Price about 1795 in Hanover County, Virginia.
      She and her sister Jane signed the Quaker marriage certificate for Joseph Jordan and Rebecca Harris 17 Nov 1819 at the Cedar Creek Meeting House in Hanover County. She and Jane, received a bequest from Martha H. Syme, who died in 1824.
      She married Seaton Grantland from Georgia, October 20, 1835, when she was about 40. He was an at-large congressman from 1835 to 1839. From the 1840 and 1850 census records for Baldwin County, Georgia, it does not appear that they had children. Catherine died in September 9, 1845, aged about 50.


      She and her sister Jane signed the Quaker marriage certificate for Joseph Jordan and Rebecca Harris 17 Nov 1819 at the Cedar Creek Meeting House in Hanover County.

      She died in Baldwin Co., GA, in 1845.
      With sister Jane received bequest from Martha H. Syme, who died at dec’d Capt. George Dabney’s house in 1824, from VA Migrations Hanover Co., Glazebrook.

      Catherine was second wife, 1795-1845

      1820 census Baldwin Co., GA, Seaton Grantland, M 1 0-9, 1 10-15, 1 16-25, 1 26-44; F 1 26-44, 20 slaves
      1830 census Baldwin Co., GA, Seaton Grantland, M 1 10-14, 1 40-49; F 3 10-14, 1 60-69
      1840 census Baldwin Co., GA, Seaton Grantland, M 1 20-29, 1 50-59; F 2 15-19, 1 40-49,1 50-59, 1 70-79, 82 slaves
      1850 census Baldwin Co., GA, Seaton Grantland, 67, farmer, $22, 000, b. VA; Fleming, 30, physician; Sarah Goodson, 89; Jean Mathews, 50 [3, 5, 6]

  • Sources 
    1. [S48] p. 32..

    2. [S201]

    3. [S320]

    4. [S1070] p. 165, source Richmond Enquirer, 23 Sep 1845, pp. 2..

    5. [S104] p. 74..

    6. [S724]