Editing Pocahontas, Missouri (section)

==Name==
According to tradition, Samuel Green opened a post office and started the town. As a result, the government required him to provide a name for the town.  Samuel Green had fallen in love with a princess of the [[Le Grand Village Sauvage, Missouri|Shawnee and Delaware tribes]] living along [[Apple Creek (Mississippi River)|Apple Creek]], but she had left the region along with the tribes when they moved west.  Green intended to name the town after this woman whom he longed for.  Unfortunately, the name of this princess was difficult to pronounce and nearly as impossible to spell, so when registering the town’s name, Green decided to substitute his love’s name for the name of the historic Indian princess [[Pocahontas]], of colonial Virginia fame.<ref>Mary Koeberl Rechenberg, "[http://www.semissourian.com/story/1991444.html]." Southeast Missourian. August 5, 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA270 | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=270}}</ref>

"Joseph Abernathy who looked like an Indian and according to tradition was a descendant of Pocahontas, was the head of another branch of the Abernathy family. He too was born in NC and moved to MO at a very early date. The town of Pocahontas was named in honor of him and in recognition of this tradition."<ref>Quoted from THE ABERNATHY FAMILY by Elizabeth Denty Abernathy, 1929.  This book is a compilation of articles which appeared in the Pulaski (TN) Citizen Print.</ref>