Notes for James Crumbliss

Notes for James Crumbliss

JAMES CRUMBY was a Methodist preacher and some sort of pioneer
doctor. He married Sarah Collier of Guntown, Mississippi, and moved to
Paducah, Ky, just before the Civil War.
There, his daughter, Lucinda Crumby, met and married Pinckney Joseph McAbee, formerly a Confederate Soldier from Spartanburg, SC, who had been working on a Mississippi River boat. Lucinda and P.J. McAbee lived for a while in Brooklyn, IL, after their marriage in 1867. They later moved to Jackson, Tennessee, where they remained until their death. They are buried in Rocky Springs Cemetery.

Lucinda and P.J. McAbee had at least four children:
David McAbee, Betty McAbee, Emma McAbee, and Cora Lee McAbee, who married Charles Thamer Brashears, a distant cousin descending from Isaac Brashears, the Patriarch, through Betsy's brother, John Brashears.