PLEASE NOTE:  The mother of Abner's children was not Sarah SUMMERS, d/o Robert SUMMERS & Phoebe BEALS; that Sarah SUMMERS married Nimrod FENDER.  The identity of Abner's first wife, who was the mother of all his children, is unknown.  Abner married second to Sarah "Sally" (LONDON) SUMMERS, daughter of Amos LONDON and widow of Johnson SUMMERS.  Abner had no children with Sally.

Some say Abner's first wife was a daughter of Jabez JARVIS, but I've not seen any proof of the claim.

1.  D.L. Murray & N.R. Murray, compilers.  1995. Marriage Index: MD, NC, VA, 1624-1915 (Broderbund CD-4):

Rose, Abner

Summers, Sally

??//????

Surry Co., NC

2.  LDS.  Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:  IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).

Abner ROSE Birth: 06 Feb 1763, Virginia Death: 25 Oct 1832 Father: Bennett ROSE; Mother: Sarah BRADFORD Marriage: About 1784, of Surry, North Carolina Spouse: Sally SUMMERS Source: patron submission

Abner ROSE Birth: About 1798, North Carolina Death: 18 Jul 1841, North Carolina Marriage: About 1820, Surry, North Carolina Spouse: Sally SUMMERS Source: patron submission

Abner ROSE Birth: 06 Feb 1763, North Carolina Marriage: About 1784, Surry, North Carolina Spouse: Miss JARVIS Source: patron submission

Abner ROSE Birth: 06 Feb 1763, Virginia Death: 25 Oct 1832 Marriage: About 1784, Surry, North Carolina Spouse: Sally SUMMERS Birth: About 1763, Surry, North Carolina Source: patron submission

3.  1786 Taxables — Cpt. Atkins District, Surry County, NC (online at www.fmoran.com):

Abner Rose 150 [acres]

4.  Census Index:  Colonial America, 1607-1789 (Broderbund CD-310):•

1786 State Census

Rose, Abner

NC

Surry Co.

Willeses District

p. 001

5.  1790 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  not found, and I did a page-by-page search of Surry Co., NC, where the only ROSE was a John ROSE (a lone adult male) listed next to John JERVIS; on the same page were Jabez, William, Stephen, and Keziah JERVIS.

6.  1800 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #49 of 73 — list was roughly alphabetized; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1800

NC

Surry Co.

Salisbury Twp.

Roll 32

p. 685

Ln. 2

Rose [long-s] Abner

22010-11010-00

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
2 males	9 or under	1790-1800	= Son A = Zachariah (b. 1793)
2 males	10-15	1784-1790	= Bennett (b. 1787/8) = Reziah (b. ca. 1785)
1 male	26-44	1755-1774	= Abner (b. 1763)
1 female	9 or under	1790-1800	= Elizabeth (b. 1796)
1 female	10-15	1784-1790	= Lucy (b. 1786)
1 female	26-44	1755-1774	= Wife-1

7.  1810 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #35 of 72; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1810

NC

Surry Co.

Roll 43

p. 665

Ln. 12

Abner Rose

02101-11001-00

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
2 males	10-15	1794-1800	=
1 male	16-25	1784-1794	= Bennett (b. 1787/8)
1 male	45 or over	by 1765	= Abner (b. 1763)
1 female	9 or under	1800-1810	=
1 female	10-15	1794-1800	=
1 female	45 or over	by 1765	= Wife-1

The only other Abner ROSE in the entire census is the one in MA.

8.  1820 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  not found.  There are four Abner ROSE'es in the census, but none in the southern states.  Half of the Tennessee census is missing, so he may be in TN; however, the Maury/Marshall and Giles County censuses survived, and he is not indexed as being there.

9.  1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #65 of 164; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1830

TN

Giles Co.

Roll 176

p. 167

Ln. 12

Abner Rose

000 000 001 - 000 000 000

no slaves

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	60-69	1760-1770	= Abner (b. 1763)

The only other Abner ROSE in the 1830 census is one in Ohio.

10.  1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com):  can't find.  The A. ROSE in Lauderdale Co., AL, is too young (æ 30-40) to be our subject.  Or was he simply tallied in the wrong age class?

11.  Messages posted to the Rose Family Genealogy Forum (online at GenForum.com).  See especially Message #7611, posted 28 Dec 2003.

Proof that Sarah (LONDON) SUMMERS was not the mother of Abner's children, found in papers relating to the estate of her brother, Amos LONDON, Jr., in Giles Co., TN, specifically, a deposition that includes:

D G Bills, aged about seventy years who answers and says - I knew Amos London late of Giles County, Tennessee for some fifty years before his death.  I knew him first in North Carolina then in Tennessee.  He never had any child or children born in wedlock and died leaving neither child or children or the representatives of such.  He had one brother only, his name was John London who died in Marshall County, Tennessee.  He left a good many children & among them was Sarah, who intermarried with Thomas Parks.  They are both dead and have two living children, viz., John L and James M Park.  One daughter of said Thomas and Sarah Park married Nicholas Tomblinson & she is dead and has left one child, I believe.  Amos London had three sisters.  One of them married Brice Jackson - Jackson & wife as I understand are both dead.  They left some children, but the number I can not tell.  One other of his sisters married a man by the name of Johnson Summers.  He died and she married a man by the name of Abner Rose.  They are both long since dead and she died without child or children or the representatives of such.  The other of Amos' sisters married a man by the name of Palmer.  As to Palmer and wife I speak principally from information and family reputation, but as to the children if any I can not speak from my own information but I am well satisfied that these four are the only brothers and sisters of the said Amos London and further this deponent says not. D G Bills Subscribed and sworn to before me on the 4th of March 1861 W B Holden (Seal) JP for Marshall County

D.G. BILLS has to be Daniel G. BILLS who is in the 1860 census of Marshall Co., TN (æ 70, b. NC, p.124A), with wife, Rachel [SUMMERS] (æ 67, b. NC).  The Amos LONDON mentioned here is our Sarah's brother, not her father.

12.  James Lynn Parham.  1998.  An Alabama Rose Garden: the Rose Family of Lauderdale and Limestone Counties.  Gateway Press, Baltimore, MD (available from the author at 1110 Hewitt St., Huntsville, AL 35816).  Mistakenly surmises that Abner's wife, Sarah, was Sarah SUMMERS / SUMNER, daughter of Robert SUMMERS, but Sarah's maiden name was LONDON.

13.  Christine Rose.  6 Oct 2006.  Abner Rose Family.  Typescript.

14.  WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com):  Some files there mistakenly assume Sally's maiden name was SUMMERS, then compound the mistake by giving her parents as Robert SUMMERS / SOMERS & Phoebe BEALS; however, the daughter of Robert & Phoebe (BEALS) SUMMERS married Nimrod FENDERS, not Abner ROSE.