Abraham Barton Lancaster began military service at Co. D 2nd Reg. Cavalry KY Vols Confederate Army; Joined the Confederate forces under Gen. John Hunt Morgan's command. Gen. John B. Castleman was his captain, Gen. Basil Duke his colonel, in the 2nd Cavalry, Co., D. Taken prisoner near Louisville, sent to prison in Chicago, escaped to Canada. He became a member of the Confederate Veteran Assn. of KY on 11/29/1890. He was also known as Abe Lancaster. Abraham Barton Lancaster was born on 30. Jul. 1841 at Keene, Jessamine County, Kentucky. He was the son of
Merritt Proctor Lancaster and
Anne Elizabeth Skillman. Abraham Barton Lancaster married
Susan Anne Harris on 1. Nov. 1876 at Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky; Married at the residence of John W. Frazer, Esq.(her brother-in-law) in Lex. Ky, 11/1/ by the Rev. J. S. Saipman. Abraham Barton Lancaster married
Naomi Elizabeth Hill on 24. Nov. 1897. Abraham Barton Lancaster died on 24. Sep. 1923 at E. High St., Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, at age 82; Cause of death was a heart attack. He was buried on 25. Sep. 1923 at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. In 1901 A.B. and his second wife, Eliz. Hill build a 4,000 square-foot home at 646 E. High St. in Lexington in the Chautauqua Woods Addition (subdivision.).