Person talk:Abner Van Norman (1)

I know of no evidence for a third name (Norwood) for Abner Everitt Van Norman. He was referred to in documents as Abner E. Everitt. He was named after his maternal uncle, Abner Everitt, who was the husband of Hannah Cummins, his mothers's sister. His mother was Catharine Cummins. Catharine and Hannah were daughters of Daniel Cummins. The Norwood name popped up recently in several trees of Roots web. This may be due to a misreading of some histories which have suggested that Abner (or another family member) lived in Norwood. I cannot find evidence that he did.

Please share any evidence you might have about his extra name and birth place.

Abner married again after the death of Catharine. Both of his families are described in my We Relate pages which we will have to try to merge somehow some time.

Cheers --Wrcummins 17:07, 14 October 2007 (EDT)