Abigail Tanner
Widow of Henry Showerman, by whom she had two sons, when she married George Frost (1791) in 1824; probably the mother of Stephen George Frost (1826). Her Showerman son Henry T. died on a revenue cutter at Balize, near New Orleans, during the Mexican War. Born in New York, she died there after 1834, as the Ancestry tree has it.
Life
- 1798Born20 Jun 1798, New York
The trees' 20 June 1798 has no source; the Frost Genealogy gives no birth date.
- 1824Married George Frost6 Mar 1824
- aft. 1834
Family
- Father
- Joshua Tanner
Joshua Tanner and Diana Gifford, as the online trees have them; no source has been found, in the Tanner Genealogy (1893) or elsewhere.
compiledpossible - Mother
- Dinah Gifford
Joshua Tanner and Diana Gifford, as the online trees have them; no source has been found, in the Tanner Genealogy (1893) or elsewhere.
compiledpossible - Spouse 1
- Henry Showermancompiledprobable
Pedigree
Notes
Married first Henry Showerman, by whom two sons, and then in 1824 George Frost.
The Frost Genealogy calls her “Abigail Tanner, widow of Henry Showerman”; her son Henry T. Showerman “d. on a revenue cutter at Balize, nr. New Orleans, during Mexican War.”