Individual Details
(Abt, 1799 - Bet 1880 and 1890)
"Abraham Cantrell was born in what is now known as Spartanburg County, South Carolina. He moved with his parents to Tennessee, where he married Susan Collins. Land grants recorded in public records in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee of fifteen hundred twenty acres were conveyed to Abraham. This property could not compete with the urge to join the general migration westward. Abraham disposed of his land, farm machinery, freed five slaves and prepared for the trek for new land and adventure. A caravan of Cantrell families left Warren County, Tennessee during the late summer of 1849 in covered wagons, drawn by oxen, in search of a "land of milk and honey." The adventurous relatives first stopped in southern Illinois with intentions to settle there, but they found the land low and marshy, unsuitable for farming as a whole. They moved on westward to Dade County, Missouri and found a wilderness of tall trees suitable for lumber. Each family built a log cabin and began removing the brush and trees from the land to be seeded to agricultural crops. A partial list of the Cantrell caravan included the following Cantrell families: Abraham, son of John; John James, son of Abraham; Constance, daughter of Abraham; Narcissus, daughter of Abraham; Andrew Jackson, son of Jacob; Elijah, son of Thomas; Peter, son of Benjamin; Thomas, son of Elijah; and Elizabeth, daughter of John, and her husband, James Van Hooser. Within a few years, Abraham and other families of the caravan learned of the Cantrell settlement in Webster County, Missouri. They decided in 1858 to join the Cantrell clan. They found numerous relatives that had settled along the banks of a small stream that bore their name. There is a tradition that Abraham married a third time to a Miss Robinett, nine days prior to his death in the 1880's in Webster County, Missouri, but this has not been substantiated. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the Sixteenth Cemetery on Cantrell Creek in Webster County, Missouri." (CANTRELL-CANTRILL by Horace Elbert Cantrell, 1972, page 42)
Events
| Birth | Abt, 1799 | Spartanburg County, South Carolina | | | |
| Marriage | Bet 1880 and 1890 | Webster County, Missouri - Robinett | | | |
| Death | Bet 1880 and 1890 | | | | |
| Marriage | | Tennessee - Susan Collins | | | |
| Marriage | | Webster County, Missouri - Ann Elmore | | | |
| Burial | | Sixteenth Cemetery, Cantrell Creek, Webster County, Missouri | | | |
Families