Father: Rev. Thomas Smith Abernethy (1803-1882)
Mother: Martha W. Lucy (1800-1842)
1840 - Lived in the home of "Thos. S. Abernathy", Marengo Co., AL
08/12/1842 - Mother, "Martha Abernethy", died in Marengo Co., AL (buried: Lucy Family Cemetery, Old Spring Hill, Marengo Co., AL - Find A Grave #95832014)
09/02/1850 - Lived with father and sibs, Marengo Co., AL (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as J. C. Abernathy)
1856-1857 - Studied medicine, Memphis, TN
08/31/1858 - Married, Caroline O. "Carrie" Mobley, Wilcox Co., AL
1860 - M.D. degree, Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA (from: AL; matriculated as "Jones C. Abernethy")
06/01/1860 - Practiced medicine, Clarke Co., AL (lived with wife, Caroline - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as Jones C. Abernathy)
04/18/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, 32nd AL Infantry
08/07/1862 - Acting Surgeon, 32nd AL Infantry, Running Water Bridge,
0926/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
08/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 32nd AL Infantry
09/04/1863 - Absent with leave
08/22/1864 - Surgeon, 43rd GA Infantry, near Dalton, GA
09/00/1864 - "On the march I visited a Confederate field hospital, containing the most severely wounded of the battle of Jonesborough under charge of Surgeon Abernethy, C. S. Army, and offered him any supplies of medicine or stores he needed. He accepted a small quantity of morphine only. I also obtained permission from General Schofield to furnish him with sugar and coffee as far as our supplies would permit. Surgeon Henry S. Hewitt, Medical Director, Dept. of Ohio, U. S. Army"
12/12/1864 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, from AL to rank from 07/13/1864
12/17/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
04/26/1865 - As Surgeon, 40th GA Battalion GA Infantry, paroled by the U. S. Army, Greensboro, NC
08/23/1870 - Practiced medicine, Bethel Beat, Wilcox Co., AL (lived with wife, Caroline, and three children - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as J. C. Abernethy)
1877 - President, Jefferson County [AL] Medical Society
06/07/1880 - Practiced medicine and farmed, Spring Hill Beat, Marengo Co., AL (lived with his wife, Caroline O., four sons, and two daughters - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as Jones C. Abernethy)
04/13/1882 - Father, Thomas Abernethy, died in Marengo Co., AL (buried: Dayton Cemetery, Dayton, Marengo Co., AL - Find A Grave #50200541)
00/00/1882 - Moved to Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL
06/16/1900 - Practiced medicine, Precinct 19, Jefferson Co., AL (lived with wife, C.O., one daughter and one son - indexed in the 1900 U.S. Census as J. C. Abernathy)
1902 - Author, "[Review of] Manual of military surgery for the army of the Confederate States" (1902) Southern Practitioner, vol. 24, pp. 674-679. [The author is listed in the journal as J. C. Abernathy.]
06/00/1908 - Elected vice president, Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States, Birmingham, AL, as Jones C. Abernethy
04/20/1910 - Practiced medicine, Ward 15, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL (lived with wife, Carrie O. - indexed in the 1910 U. S. Census as "J. L. Abernathy)
- Commander, Camp Hardee United Confederate Veterans
- Democrat
- Freemason
02/27/1915 - Died of heart disease, West End, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL (buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, AL - Find A Grave # 189143034 - gravestone incorrectly engraved "J. C. Abernathy")

Note: The Pensacola Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was named, the "Dr. J. C. Abernethy Chapter No. 2148" in 1948, after Dr. Jones Cadwalader Abernethy.

Note: This man was the child of Rev. and Mrs. Abernethy and signed his name as J. C. Abernethy during the American Civil War. However, it appears that he did not mind that his surname was often misspelled as Abernathy. His gravestone is incorrectly engraved with the surname, "Abernathy., His wife's gravestone is correctly engraved as "Abernethy."

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
04/08/2019. Unpublished database.