This site is devoted to the History of the
Jasper County Mississippi Abney family, descendants of Robert Releford Abney(1810-1875)
and his wife, Mary Ann Roberts Abney(1812-1880). Robert R. was born in Maury
County Tennessee and migrated to Mississippi with his family to Hinds County
Mississippi. There he met and married Mary Ann Roberts, who was born and raised
on the adjoining Roberts Farm in the Champion Hill area of Hinds County.