Revolutionary War patriot
This picture shows up in a listing for another of Sharon's ancestors, listed on the family tree as Pvt. Michael Abney: I suspect that whoever put it in the family tree looked around on the internet, found this image, liked it, and decided to associate it with Michael Abney's entry. The image appears to come from an archive hosted by Georgia State University in Atlanta. I managed to find a site called Carolana.com that contains records of regiments that participated in the Revolutionary War, including lists of the soldiers who composed the regiments. As an aside, Carolana.com's home page contains this bit of historical lore: "In 1629, King Charles I of England "erected into a province" all the land from the Albemarle Sound in the north to the St. John's River in the south, which he directed should be named Carolana. Carolana is from the word Carolus, the Latin form of Charles, and the name he personally selected for his new colony. Carolina is the name ...