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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, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln family Lincoln, Samuel, 1619?-1690
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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II. JOSIAH LINCOLN, born 10 July, 1766. He was a farmer
in good circumstances for the time.⁴ He removed to Harri-
son County, Indiana, where he died in 1836.⁵ He was married
and left an only son, Thomas Lincoln, late of Corydon, Har-
rison County, Ind.^6
1On the authority of the article in the Sunny Souths already cited. This
article states that there were three daughters, but the name of the third is not
given. She probably died young.
²Tarbells History² ed. 1900, p. 5.
³ So stated by the late Dr. C. C. Graham of Louisville, a gentleman whose
authority 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 the
legislators.
⁴ "I knew Mordecai and Josiah Lincoln intimately. They were excellent
men, plain, moderately educated, candid in their manners and intercourse and
looked upon as honorable as any men I have heard of." — Letter of Henry
Pirtle, 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 to
the estate exist.
⁶ A grandson of the name of Mordecai Lincoln is now (1908) resident in
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Levi Lincoln

THE AMERICAN PEDIGREE 85

III. Mary Lincoln, married Ralph Crume or Krume of
Kentucky.¹
IV. Nancy Lincoln, married William Brumfield of
Kentucky.
Child of ABRAHAM and BATHSHEBA (HERRING)
LINCOLN. V. Thomas Lincoln, born in Rockingham County, Vir-
ginia, 20 January, 1780. He married, 12 June, 1806, at
Beechland, Ky., Nancy Hanks,
daughter of Joseph and Nancy
(Shipley) Hanks (born 5 February,
1784), at the house of her aunt Lucy (Shipley), wife of
Richard Berry, her guardian, who became surety on the
marriage bond, taken out two days earlier.
After two removals in Kentucky the family emigrated to
Gentryville, Spencer County, Ind., where he entered a quarter
section of land, 18 October, 1817, and where his wife died 5
October, 1818.²
He married, secondly, 2 December, 1819, at Elizabeth-
town, Ky., Sarah, widow of Daniel Johnston,³ of that place,
deceased, and she, surviving him, died 10 April, 1869, at a
farm near Charleston, Ill., which had been given her by the
President. There was no issue of this marriage

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