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I1ctchcra signature oa the package. gentle-actin- 1 S i&zzkz ILMO SCOTT WATSON 1- 111 -7 .11. .ril fttatiton, Iskra lla great particular hr Ml-nol- a. r - . o- I r con-slipp- ed cund-Bu- JL w ' , Csrlfyiaceol Lincoln, at their own American whuae birth da ws celebrate on February 12. Kentucky gate Mm birth; Indiana nuriuml him In Ma boyhood and wllnrwd Iba flrst tragedy In tha Ufa of ll.la man of ar-rollllii'il gx him la Iba nation and In rich adl laid hi weary hod to real when hla work w dona. Now, tbanka to iba rvaearrbea of an Indefall-gabl- a Lincoln arholar, at least Use oiler atati-- a may lay claim to having roiilrlbutad aotiielhlng lo tha greatness llmt was Abraham IJnroln if bacadliy may ba regarded a tha prim factor In evaluating the greatness of a man. One of tbam la Massachusetts, another la New Jentay, another Pennsylvania, a not bar Want Virginia and the taut and baraln Ilea another example of tha eternal fitness of thlnga la that Mother of President. the rommonwaalth of Virginia. Tha arholar who haa brought to light the fad which Juntlfy the above atatrmanta la William II Barton, who In hla hook The Unease of Unrdn. published hy the Robbs Merrill company , apparently hna revealed all that la evrr likely lo ba known about the forebear! of Abraham Lincoln. In hla foreword Itnrton mate that Thla quest hna carried me three tlinea serosa the ocenn and haa ant me to Innumerable courthouaea In Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indlunn and In the laHer place he wua working In virgin historical Bull and amid the dusty crumbling old document which he unearthed, tie established for the first time the complete record, ao far as U aeenia likely ever to be complete, of Lincoln's maternal ancestors, the llanksea. The story of the Great Emancipator's paternal ancestors. the Lincolns, has been told before, hut Radon's Investigations hare added to, and In some cases, corrected some minor errors made by previous workers In that Held. It la In tracing the Hunks ancestral lines, however, that Doctor Radon's work has been ao outFor two hundred years, from their standing. flrst landing In Virginia, no member of the Hanks family, In the ancestral line of Abraham Lincoln, made one known scratch of the pen to aid the genealogist, and the public records are almost Incredibly scarce," soys Doctor Radon. "Not only ao, but wars from Racon'a rebellion to the Civil war hare wiped out completely the records of aom counties where our need was greatest Compared to alt these difficulties, the tracing of tha pnterr.nl Lincoln line has been comparatively easy. The name of Lincoln goes hack to In lta earliest form to the days of Romnn occupation of F.ngland. I.lndura was a Roman colony established about 80 A. D. Through the successive modifications of I.lndutn Colonla, Llndutu-colny- , Llndcolon and Llndeoln the place nnme of Lincoln finally emerged. So there was a city of Lincoln In Lincolnshire and since In the early days surnames Indicated where a man lived, there came Into being families of Lincolns. The first recorded nse of Lincoln as a family name appears In the Domesday Rook In 1080. Alfred de Lincoln (L e. Alfred who comes from the county of Lincoln) was a Saxon by birth, but his lands were saved from confiscation by hla marriage to a Norman woman. Although the name of Lincoln originated In Lincolnshire, It was from Norfolk that the flrst Lincolns came to America. Abraham Lincoln's was Samuel Lincoln who was born In llingham, Norfolk, In 1619, emigrated to Massachusetts In 1637 and died In Hlngham, Mass., in 1690. From this original Immigrant seven Lincolns In direct line to Abraham, the President, can be traced. It Is In tracing this line that three states. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, get their claim to the Immortal Lincoln. The tracing of this line Is also a striking commentary on the migratory habits of the pioneer stock from which Abraham Lincoln sprang. For not one of the seven died tn the same town In which he was born and only one In the same state. They are the following: I Samuel Lincoln. II Mordecal Lincoln, Sr., was born tn ning-haMass., tn 1657 and died In Scltuate, Mass., In 1727. III Mordecal Lincoln, Jr., was horn In Scltuate, Mass., April 24, 1686, and after a residence In New Jersey died In Berks county. Pa., In 1736. IV John Lincoln was born In Berks county. Pa., In 1716 and died In Virginia In 17S8. V Capt Abraham Lincoln was born In Virginia In 1744 and died In Kentucky In 1786. VI Thomas Lincoln was born In Virginia In 1778 and died In Illinois In 1851. VII Abraham Lincoln was born In Kentucky In 1S09 and died in Washington In LSdS. The maternal line of Abraham Lincoln, the Hankses, also trace bHck to England, and antedate the Lincolns by many years. In his Investigations, Doctor Barton found innumerable Hankses as far back as the reign of King Athelstnn and before . . . Athelstan died In 941, more than a century before William the Conqueror and his Normans invaded England and subjected the t?T. i y lo tb sgra," three atatra lo claiming 77 Vl A Mnrulneirluirl,.NvW be Mna , 1 !UI.I ut tb at lb aiaiMlInc dying at ltTHir n v s iHi Matter ef Chivalry It douM What do you lo w lu-Give b-- r the about klln s elrlT of tbe doubt." o t V. Rasona to Ibetr rule. Thus, too, there were Hankses recorJed In history before the batue of Alfn-de Unrolo wat wrlttco la the iKunesday think. Ue Hank sea were Malmehury men. There wat fighting In that part of England during tha 1ll war and It was a a result of this Lng!hh that the first Hanks cams to America. II was Thom a Hanks who waa one of 27 perar.a deported from England In IG54 at a punishment which was being Inflicted on Cromwell's men who were captured by the Royalists. Thomas Hanks became an Important landholder la what I oow Gloucester county, Virginia. Tha moat that w know about him Is through various land purchases but bis asm disappears from history after the Indian uprising of 1G75 and the Bacon rebellion of 1676. Rut In 1097 the name of William Hanks appears In Richmond County. There la every reason to believe that he waa the son of Thomas Hanks and from him the maternnl ancestry of Abraham Lincoln Is traced. That tin read as follows: 1 Thomas Hanks. H William Hanks. Born probably In Gloucester county, Virginia, about 1050. Died In Richmond county In 1701. III John Hunks. Rom In North Farnham pariah In Richmond county, dute unknown, and died In te t i r jI y 4 rrm at --nw set" ip f Age sV-p-- w--e -- e- !. - Gain smnpanlcd ly III be celled 8jrru. !". d 1710. IV Joseph Rom In North Farnham Hanks. parish, December 20, 1725. Died lo Nelson county, Kentucky In 1793. V Lucy Hanks. Rom probably tn 1766 In Richmond county, Virginia, and died In 1825(7). VI Nancy Hanks. Itorn In Mineral county. West Virginia In 1783. Died In Spencer county, Indiana, October 5. ISIS. VII Abraham Lincoln. It will be noted that the place of Nancy Hanks' birth was given as Mineral county, W. Va. It was not known by thnt nnme In 17S3 for It was then Hampshire county of Vlrglula, but durlug the Civil war the western part of the Old Dominion became a separate state and thus another state Is added to the roll of those which have a particular claim upon Abraham Lincoln. Joseph Hanks and his family hud moved from Richmond county to Hampshire county some time before 17S2. In March, 1784, that family again migrated, this time to Kentucky where Nancy Hanks was to meet Thomas Lincoln, nmrry him In Washington county, June 12, 1806. and then on that February day 121 years ago give birth to the boy whose name was to become world famous. But the fact that Massachusetts. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia nnd West Virginia have Joined Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois In the list of states closely connected with the career of Abraham Lincoln Is not the only revelation In the new Barton book. More Interesting still Is the fact that the two outstanding leaders In the Civil war were relatives. In one of his chapter headings Barton makes the startling statement "Lincoln was a Lee" and In thnt chapter proves that both Abraham Lincoln, by virtue of his office as President, commander In chief of the Cnion forces, and Robert E. Lee, the great battle leader of the Confederate forces, trace hack Lincoln through the maternal line and Lee through the paternal line to a common ancestor. Col. Richard Lee. Col. Richard Lee and his wife Anna arrived In Virginia In 1642, an event which marked the beginning of the authentic Lee history In the Old Dominion." The' second son of Richard and Anna was also named Richard. The fifth son of this Richard was Henry Lee, and the third son of this Henry was the Lieut. Col. Henry Lee. who married the Lucy Grymes who according to the story was the Lowland Beauty of Washingtons early life. The second child and oldest son of Lieut. Col. Lee was MaJ. Gen. Henry Lee, who bestowed upon Washington the famous encomium "first In war, first In peace, and first In the hearts of his countrymen. And the fourth son of General Lee was Robert E. Lee, of Arlington and Appomattox. And now, before we Introduce the Hanks family Into this narrative, It Is time for us to take a lesson In geography, And gays Doctor Barton. he gives that lesson thus: When Colonel Richard Let established his horns tn Virginia In 164J, there were but eight counties In that commonwealth and he lived In the County of York. That county was subsequently divided and redivided and subdivided. Before Colonel Lew died, his estate, which he called Paradise, was located In Gloucester county, on the borders of New Kent, later the home of Martha Custis Washington. Gloucester was then the richest and most populous county in Virginia and was In the peninsula formed by the York river on the south and the Rappahannock on the north. His neighbors may be presumed to have varied In quality, but If Virginia had an aristocracy In that day, Gloucester county waa the center of It. and some of his friends were among the most noted men In Vir- ginia. We are already aware at least twenty-on- e that Thomas Hanks was years a resident of this Glou- cester reclon. And now we discover that, as his holdings widened and his boundaries followed the lines of other planters, two of his patents grant bim land adjoining tbs estate of Colonel Lee! This -1 ' ' - A va r VW ThamAt HankS Distent aJjomm3 ,, 4 '' JV 0 die ss 0 IsdfCoLX.re was none other then Colonel Richad Ui. piuaenl-toof the family, and ancestor of Robert fck Reel That belligerent' old royalist, foremost la Virginia in support of Cbarlea I. and on of the flrst lo hall Cbarlea 11 as lb lawful sovereign of England, lletd for many years n near neishbor of Thomaa llanka! Tb loyalist ancestor of Robert E. lw and the rebel ancestor of Abiabam Lincoln wet neighbors la Gloucester eouniyl Furthermore, when Bacon's rebellion waa over, and the Hanks family moved across tb Rappahannock, ao did tb leu. And as Thomaa Hanks bad long lived neighbor to Colonel lllcherd Lee on tb south ahor of tba Rappahannock, their children In successive generations lived nelghnor on the north shore of tb same stream. The Leea established their abiding place at a plantation which they named Stratford, and tha Hankses, Intermarrying with the Wood-brldfamily, whose plantation occupied tha alts of an old Indian village not far away, lived fer a hundred years with Lee on three sides of them. r te Mere Tim te Remember Brown was married on lb Isntp ninth of February." I low fortunm!" Why mY lie nm forgri the anniversary only report may oniw In four yrara. Sniffer! m - r next-plantati- I ' ' ' 1 'V JL 'Itirwtf I a - ; . .;-- ' - gs It was only natural, therefore, that sometime there would be Intermarriage tf the two fain . And that Is exactly what took place. The original Richard I.ce bad seven sons, and one of son named William who married fl these had Dorothy Taylor, the daughter of an Elizabeth Taylor who lived to a grent ago. William and Dorothy In their turn had a son whom they named William, and Elizabeth Taylor made tills son, who would he her grandson, the executor of her will, dated 1747. The executor took Ms time, and at his death In 1764 he had not completed the settlement of his grandmother's estate. When his own affairs were adjusted balances were found to be due to four of bis children under the will of Elizabeth Taylor. Rut two of these children by that time had pnssed away, and awarded to their surviving their balances husbands, of whom one was Thomas flanks and The Inheritances the other Joseph Hanks. amounted In the one case to 9, and In the other to 2. The records contain the Taylor will and the settlement of the estate of this William Lee, and from these records Doctor Barton got his start In this quest Thomas Hanks Is shown to lIU-s- e have married Betsey I.ee, and Joseph Hanks became the husbund of Ann Lee. Joseph and Ann had a daughter Lucy, who became the mother of Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln. Thus Robert B. Lee, born In Virginia In 1S70, Is shown to have descended from one of the seven sons of Col. Richard Lee of 1642; there were four Intervening generations, rather wide apart, says Doctor Barton, because In several Instances the descent was through younger sons. Abrahnm Lincoln, bom In Kentucky In 1809, Is traced back to the same Col. Richard Lee through another of his seven sons, but this time there were six Intervening generations. In establishing the descent of Abraham Lincoln from the Illustrious families of Lee, Woodridge, Taylor and the rest, we practically assured ourselves of his descent also from such Intimately related families as the Wormsleys, the Carters, the Corbins and he others, Doctor Barton continues. "Abraham Lincoln sprang from the loins of the common people through second or undistinguished families (Lincolns own words), but they were not disreputable families and In his veins was some of the bluest blood of the First Families of Virginia. "Robert E. Lee was bora January 19, 1S07. Ills father was the brilliant and Improvident His mother was of the Light Horse Harry. Little more than proud stock of King Carter. two years later, on February 12, 1809, In Kentucky. late a county of Virginia, In a log cabin, Abraham Lincoln was born. His father was the d and almost Impecunious Tom Lincoln, and his mother was the gentle and Intelligent Nancy Hanks. All these were native Virginians. These two men present contrasts enough, but both were Intellectual, both had unusual ability, both were men of magnanimity, who emerged from a cruel war without hatred, and who sought the welfare of a reunited country. Both were men of great heart and unsullied honor. Both were Virginians, and both belong to the whole of America. Roth North and South should be proud to know that these two great and noble Americans were kinsmen." There Is another Interesting bit of history which Doctor Barton uncovered in his researches tn the Hanks ancestry. We think of the Turltans of New England as far removed from the Cavaliers of Virginia, he says, but how many of us know that a few of those same Puritans went south and minded their blood with that of the first families of Virginia. 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