Lavinia Afton Chilton

Lavinia Afton Chilton

• Father: William Parish Chilton b. 10 August 1810, d. 20 January 1871
• Mother: Mary Catherine Morgan b. 16 October 1814, d. say 1842

• Lavinia Afton Chilton was born on 13 August 1836 in Mardisville, Talladega County, Alabama.
• William Parish Chilton and Elvira Frances Morgan appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Macon County, Alabama, value of real estate $2,000.. Other members of the household included Lavinia Afton Chilton, Thomas George Chilton, William P. Chilton, Mary Catherine Chilton, Margaret Frances Chilton, John McElderry Chilton and Willella Chilton.
• She married Leonard Anderson Abercrombie, son of Milo Bolling Abercrombie and Sarah Lee Haden, on 1 January 1860 in Macon County, Alabama.
• Anthony Martin Branch and Amanda Melvina Smith appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Lavinia Afton Chilton, Antonia Branch and Leonard Anderson Abercrombie.
• Leonard Anderson Abercrombie and Lavinia Afton Chilton appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included James Buford Abercrombie, Mary Lee Abercrombie, Lavinia Chilton Abercrombie, Ella Hadyn Abercrombie and Frances Amelia Abercrombie. Also in the household were three domestic servants.
• Leonard Anderson Abercrombie and Lavinia Afton Chilton appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Lavinia Chilton Abercrombie, Ella Hadyn Abercrombie, Frances Amelia Abercrombie, William Chilton Abercrombie, Leonard Anderson Abercrombie and Corinne Afton Abercrombie.
• Lavinia Afton Chilton became a widow at the 23 December 1891 death of her husband Leonard Anderson Abercrombie.
• The following appeared on 28 May 1899 in The Dallas Morning News: (Fort Worth, May 27) . . . At the Delaware -- . . . Mrs. L. A. Abercrombie, Huntsville, Tex; Miss Francis Abercrombie, Huntsville, Tex. . .
• Mary Lee Abercrombie appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Lavinia Afton Chilton, Ruth Lovett Finch, Henry Abercrombie Finch, H. Donald Finch, Baxter C. Finch, Thomas C. Finch, Judith S. Finch and Amelia Ann Finch.
• Mary Lee Abercrombie appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Lavinia Afton Chilton, H. Donald Finch, Baxter C. Finch, Thomas C. Finch and Judith S. Finch.
• Lavinia Afton Chilton died circa 6 May 1919 in Long Island, New York.
• She was interred at Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.
• The following appeared on 8 May 1919 in The Dallas Morning News: A telegram received by Judge Norman G. Kittrell from Robert S. Lovett today announced the death of Mrs. Lovett's mother, Mrs. Lavina Afton Abercrombie, 82 years old, at Long Island, N. Y. The body will be sent to Huntsville, Texas, for interment, to take place on May 10.
       Mrs. Abercrombie was the daughter of William P. Chilton of Montgomery, Ala., who was for twelve years Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that State, and was a niece of John T. Morgan, for many years United States Senator from Alabama. She was married on Jan. 1, 1860 to Leonard Anderson Abercrombie, a native of Alabama, but a practicing lawyer at Huntsville, Texas, at the time of his marriage. There were seven children born of the marriage, all of them living, as follows: Mrs. May Frick [sic], Mrs. Lavina Lovett, Mrs. Hayden Lewis, Miss Fanny Abercrombie, William Chilton and Leonard A. Abercrombie and Mrs. Corinne Waldo, wife of Gentry Waldo of Houston.
• Chilton County, Alabama, was named for Lavinia's father, jurist and politician William Parish Chilton.

• Last Edited: 31 Jan 2013

• Charts: Descendants of ABERCROMBIE Charles & Edwina Malinda "Dicey" Booth