Maury family

Abraham "Abram" Maury, Jr. (1766-1825), was born in Lunenburg, Virginia, to Abram Maury, Sr., and Susannah Poindexter. After struggling with debt issues in Virginia, Maury purchased a tobacco plantation near Franklin, Tennessee. Between 1808 and his death in 1825, Maury speculated heavily, and successfully, in land and cotton production throughout the South (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi). He served as a member of the Tennessee state legislature, and in 1820 as a land commissioner. He married Martha Branch Worsham and they had eight children, including Daniel Worsham (1799-1862), Abram Poindexter (1801-1848), Ann (1803-1876), Martha Fontain (b. 1807), and Zebulon Montgomery Pike (b. 1814).

Abram Poindexter Maury (1801-1848) was the son of Abram Maury, Jr., and was born on his father’s Tennessee plantation. Abram P. Maury entered West Point military academy at age 16, but left in 1821 to study law and apprentice as a newspaper editor. He worked on various papers, including the Nashville newspaper the Republican . In 1826, Maury married Mary Eliza Tennessee Claiborne (1806-1852), daughter of Sarah Terrell Lewis and Dr. Thomas Augustine Claiborne, whose family was politically well connected in the South. Maury served in the Tennessee state house of representatives in 1831, 1832, 1843, and 1844. He was elected to the United States Congress as an Anti-Jacksonian and a Whig in 1835 and 1837 but did not seek reelection. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1839, and practiced law in Williamson County. Maury died in 1848.

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