It is very possible that Abraham had been married before. His children Jeremiah, Rosanna, and Jacob -according to all census records- precede 1784. He moved about 1789 to Washington County, Tennessee and lived there for a short while. He bought 150 acres on the Little Limestone on August 11, 1791 and sold this land to his son Stephen on October 9, 1835. At that point he moved his family to Vermillion County, Illinois. He was one of the early settlers of that county.