Abijah Richard Rembert

Abijah Richard Rembert

• Father: Abijah Rembert II b. say 1775, d. circa 1835
• Mother: Sarah Gayle b. 18 December 1774, d. 2 May 1848

• Abijah Richard Rembert was born on 23 May 1811 in Orangeburg District, South Carolina.
• He married Emily Alabama Hale, daughter of Jehu Hale and Mary Woods, on 27 September 1838 in Dallas County, Alabama.
• Abijah Richard Rembert and Emily Alabama Hale appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. Other members of the household included William Erasmus Rembert, Laura Rebecca Rembert, Robert Abiajah Rembert and Mary Woods.
• He was a physician, according to the 1850 census.
• Abijah Richard Rembert died on 12 September 1857 at age 46 in Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
• The following appeared in in the Fall 1997 issue of The Plume, quarterly publication of the DeSoto Historical Society:
                      William Erasmus Rembert, DeSoto Parish Physician/Farmer
  Dr. William Erasmus Rembert, (often called 'Uncle Billy') was born in Selma, Alabama on 4 December 1840. He was the oldest of five children of Dr. Abijah Richard and Emily Alabama (Hale) Rembert. His (William's) father was a physician and from family accounts was sent from South Carolina to Paris, France for his medical education. When he returned home in the late 1830's his father (Abijah II) was dead and his mother (Sarah Gayle) had moved with her four daughters to the south-central counties of Alabama.
       Author: Franklin C. Rembert Jr., MD, Dallas, TX.

• Last Edited: 3 Apr 2014