Notes for Sarah Eliza Rankin

Notes for Sarah Eliza Rankin

![A. Gregg Moore & Forney A. Rankin, The Rankins of North Carolina, (Marietta, GA: 1997), pg 33: Sarah Elizabeth Rankin carried to her grave the identity of the father of her first two children, William Washington Rankin and Nancy Rankin. Nevertheless, the children were accepted fully as grandchildren by their grandfather John Butch Rankin, and were accepted into the family when Sarah married Charles Burke Abernathy.