Abernathy, Burwell

Abernathy, Burwell a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Giles Countys, Tenn. As to the date of his birth we have no source of knowledge. He embraced religion in early life, and in 1842 joined the Tennessee Annual Conference. In 1849 he studied for a better ministerial preparation, and re-entered the Conference in the following year, and continued faithful, and with great usefulness, until his death, in 1848. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1848, p. 174.