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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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8 30, to Illinois, andsettled ten miles from Decatur and, finally, to Coles County,where Thomas Lincoln died, 17 January, 1851, aged seventy-three years and eleven days,^ at Goose Neck Prairie, nearFarmington. Children of THOMAS and NANCY (HANKS) LIN-COLN. I. Nancy Lincoln (called Sarah after 1819), born about1807, married, August, 1826, Aaron Grigsby of SpencerCounty, Indiana, and died in childbed, 20 May, 1828. II. Abraham Lincoln, born 12 February, 1809, at Buf- falo, Hardin (now La Rue) County, Ky. Sixteenth Presi-dent OF THE United States. III. Thomas Lincoln, born after 1813, and died when afew months old. A monument has been erected to his memory by his grandson, Hon.Robert T. Lincoln. * If the record of his birth is correct as given (see p. 80), he would havebeen only seventy years, eleven months, and twenty-eight days old ; if his ageat death was as stated by his son in the family Bible, it would place his birthon 6 January, 1778, a discrepancy of two years and fourteen days.
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CHAPTER IXCOGNATE FAMILIES IN the tracing of a genealogy too little attention is usually-paid to the female lines of ascent, from every one ofwhich the inheritor draws, equally with his direct pater-nity, those bodily and mental characteristics which distinguishhim from his fellows. Nothing that contributed to the per-sonality of Abraham Lincoln can be neglected with safetyby the historian, and in the following brief sketches are pre-sented what has been ascertained regarding his distaff lines ofderivation in America. JONES In the absence of any authentic information regarding thesurname and parentage of Martha, the wife of SamuelLincoln, the emigrant, we must commence these accountsof the cognate lines with the ancestry of Sarah Jones, thefirst wife of Mordecai Lincoln, whose gift of the nameof Abraham to the Lincoln family, in honour of her father,makes her a noteworthy figure in the pedigree. This family was represented at Hingham, Mass., by twobrothers, Robert and Thomas Jones, wh

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