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Title: The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lea, J. Henry (James Henry), 1846-1914 Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert), 1858-1921
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln family Lincoln family (Samuel Lincoln, 1619?-1690)
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Har-rison County, Ind.^ On the authority of the article in the Sunny Souths already cited. Thisarticle states that there were three daughters, but the name of the third is notgiven. She probably died young. Tarbells History^ ed. igoo, p. 5. 3 So stated by the late Dr. C. C. Graham of Louisville, a gentleman whoseauthority and veracity are unquestioned. See also Barretts Life of Lincoln^ p. 6.There is no mention of his name, however, in any now existing list of thelegislators. ■• I knew Mordecai and Josiah Lincoln intimately. They were excellentmen, plain, moderately educated, candid in their manners and intercourse andlooked upon as honorable as any men I have heard of. — Letter of HenryPirtle, 17 June, 1865. Cited by Herndon, vol. i, p. 7. 5 His inventory of personal property, amounting to $65.00, is filed (box 49)in the Probate Court of the county for that year. No other papers relating tothe estate exist. * A grandson of the name of Mordecai Lincoln is now (1908) resident in
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THE AMERICAN PEDIGREE 85 III. Mary Lincoln, married Ralph Crume or Krume ofKentucky. IV. Nancy Lincoln, married William Brumfield ofKentucky. Child of ABRAHAM and BATHSHEBA (HERRING)LINCOLN. V. Thomas Lincoln, born in Rockingham County, Vir-ginia, 20 January, 1780. He married, 12 June, 1806, atBeechland, Ky., Nancy Hanks, daughter of Joseph and Nancy cfjv^^o^^T^-fy^^^<^^^(Shipley) Hanks (born 5 February, 1784), at the house of her aunt Lucy (Shipley), wife ofRichard Berry, her guardian, who became surety on themarriage bond, taken out two days earlier. After two removals in Kentucky the family emigrated toGentryville, Spencer County, Ind., where he entered a quartersection of land, 18 October, 1817, and where his wife died 5October, 1818.^ He married, secondly, 2 December, 1819, at Elizabeth-town, Ky., Sarah, widow of Daniel Johnston,^ of that place,deceased, and she, surviving him, died 10 April, 1869, at afarm near Charleston, 111., which had been given her by thePresident. There

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