Show ar arz Y by ELMO SCOTT WATSON L as secretary stanton standing ing at the bedside or of the dying lincoln exclaimed now he 7 belongs to the lies ages three thre states estates 7 have always taken particular j A j jar pride in claiming as their own the great american whose birthday we celebrate on OD february 12 kentucky gave hl aln n birth indiana nurtured him in ills ilia boyhood bohrod and witnessed the firby it tragedy edy in ID the life of this man of sorrows illinois gave him to tile nation cation and in her rich soil laid his weary body to rest when ills his work was done now thanks to the researches of 0 an cable lincoln scholar at least five other oilier states may lay claim to having contributed something to the greatness that was abraham lincoln it if heredity may be regarded as the prime factor to in evaluating the greatness or of a man one of them Is massachusetts another Is new jersey an another other pennsylvania another west virginia and the last and herein lies another example of the e eternal fitness of things Is that mother of presidents the commonwealth of virginia the scholar who has brought to light the facts which justify the tha above statements Is william E barton who in his book the lineage of fa lincoln published by the bobbs merrill company apparently has revealed all that Is ever likely to be known about the forebears of abraham lincoln in his foreword carton barton states that this quest has carried me three times across the ocean and lias sent me to innumerable courthouses in virginia west virginia kentucky indiana and illinois in the latter places he be was working in virgin historical soil and amid the dusty crembi crumbling ing old documents which he unearthed he established for the first time the complete record so far as is it seems likely ever to be complete ot of Lincol ns maternal ancestors the Hank ses tile the story of the great emancipators paternal ancestors ce the Lincol ns lias has been told before but bartons investigations have added to and in some cases corrected some minor errors made workers in that field it la Is in tracing the hanis ancestral lines however that doctor bartons work has been so outstanding for two hundred years from their first landing in clr virginia inia no member of the hanks flanks family in the ancestral line ine of abraham lincoln made one known scratch of the pen to aid the genealogist and the public records are almost incredibly scarce says doctor carton barton not only so eo but wars from bacons bacans rebellion to the civil war have wiped out completely the records of some counties where our need was greatest compared to all these difficulties the tracing of the paternal lincoln line fine has been comparatively easy the name of lincoln goes back to in its Par earliest liest form to tile the days of roman occupation of england lindum landum was a roman colony established about 86 A D through the successive modifications of landum lindum colonia lindem lindum coiny Lind colon and Lind coln the place name of lincoln finally emerged so there was a city of lincoln in n lincolnshire Lincoln shire and since in the early days ay surnames indicated where a man lived there came ame into being families of Lincol ns the first recorded use of lincoln as a family name dame appears r in the book in 10 alfred de lincoln 1 I 1 e alfred who comes from the county of lincoln was a saxon by birth but his lands were saved e d from confiscation by his marriage to a norman woman although the name nama of lincoln originated orl in lincolnshire Lincoln shire it was from norfolk that the alst Lin colus came to america abraham Lincol ns great grent great great grandfather was samuel lincoln who was born in hingham bingham Hing ham norfolk in 1619 emigrated to massachusetts in ica 7 and died in hingham bingham Hing ham mass blass in b 1600 1690 from this original immigrant seven Lin coins in direct line to abraham the president can be traced it la 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 mi habits ot of the pioneer stock from which abraham lincoln sprang for not one of the seven died in the same came town in which he was born and only one in the same state they are the following I 1 samuel lincoln II IF mordecal mordecai lincoln sr was born ili ID ning liana ilam mass in 1057 and died in scituate mass blass in 1727 ill III mordecal lincoln jr was born in scituate mass blass april 24 and after a residence in new jersey died in berks county pa in 1730 16 IV john lincoln was born in berks county pa in 1710 and died in virginia in 1788 1799 V capt abraham lincoln was born in virginia in 1744 and died in kentucky in 1788 VI Thor thomm arte lincoln was bom boin in vir virginia inia in 1778 and died in illinois in ili 1851 vil VII abraham lincoln was born in kentucky in 1809 and died in washington in 1865 the maternal line of abraham lincoln the hauknes Hauk ses also trace back to england gland soil and antedate the Lin coins by many years in his investigations gat ions doctor barton found innumerable ila liknes as fat far bad bacu as the reign 0 of f kin king athelstan and detore athelstan died in more than a century before william the conqueror and his and d subjected the Nort nans invaded england an 3 MS aw towa cie lee V M bu oe Linc lincoln olti ky saxons to their rule thus too there were recorded in history before the name of alfred de lincoln was written to lo tile the B book ock the were malmesbury men there was nas fighting in that part of england during the english calill war and it was as a reci tilt of this that the first hanks flanks came to america ile he was wag thomas hanks flanks who was one of 27 persons persona deported from england in as a punishment which was being inflicted on men who were captured by the royalists thomas hanks flanks became an important landholder in what Is now gloucester county virginia the most moat that we know about him Is through various land purchases but his name disappears from history after the indian uprising of 1675 and the bacon rebellion of 1078 1076 gut but in 1607 1697 the name of william hanks appears in richmond county there la Is every reason to believe that he was the son of thomas hanks flanks and from him the maternal ancestry of abraham lincoln is traced that line reads as follows I 1 thomas hanks 11 II william hanks flanks born probably in gloucester county virginia about 1055 died in richmond county in 1704 ill john hanks corn born in north farnham parish in richmond county date unknown and died in 1740 IV joseph hanks flanks born in north farnham parish december 20 1723 1725 died in nelson county kentucky in 1793 1703 11 lucy hanks corn born probably in 1706 in richmond county virginia and died in 1825 1823 VI nancy hanks born in mineral county west virginia in 1783 died in spencer county indiana october 6 1818 VII abraham lincoln it will be noted that the pla f nancy hanks birth was given as Bli mineral county W va it was not known by that name in 1783 for it was then hampshire county of virginia but during 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 had bad moved from richmond county to hampshire county some time before 1782 in march 1784 1794 that eliat family again migrated this time to kentucky where nancy hanks was to meet thomas lincoln marry him in washington county june 12 1800 and then on that february day years ago give birth to the boy whose name came was wag to become world famous but the fact that massachusetts new jersey pennsylvania virginia and 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 afore 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 that chapter proves that both abraham lincoln by virtue of his office as president commander in chief of the union forces and robert E lee the great battle leader of the confederate forces trace back lincoln through the nia 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 1042 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 col henry lee who married the lucy grymes who according to the story was the lowland beauty of early life the second child and oldest son of 0 col lee was mill 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 tile alie fourth son of general lee was robert IS lee of arlington and appomattox and now before we introduce the hanks flanks family into this narrative it Is time for us to take a lesson in geography says doctor barton and he gives that lesson thus when colonel richard lee established hla his home in virginia in 1642 there were but eight counties in that commonwealth and he be lived in the county of york that county was subsequently divided and re divided and subdivided before colonel lee died his estate which lie he called paradise was wan located in gloucester county on the holders of new kent later the home of martha custis washington gloucester was then the richest and most moot populous county in virginia and was wai in the peninsula formed by the york river on the south and the rappahannock Happa Rappa hannock on an th the a north his neighbors may be presumed to have varied in quality but it virginia had an aristocracy in that day gloucester county watt was the center of it and somo some of hit his friends wore were among the most noted men in virginia we are already aware that thomas hanks was wa at least twenty one years a resident of this gloucester region and now wo we discover that as ai his bis holdings widened and his boundaries followed the lines of other pl planters antera two of his patents grant him land lan d ad the estate of colonel leel leal this MR I 1 I 1 14 m Z C CO robert elce X I 1 W 4 az 4 01 I 1 V ait q 01 4 A thomas patent a jandot ol 01 ee was none other than colonel richard lee progenitor ot of the lee family and ancestor of 0 robert 19 lee that belligerent old royalist royalia foremost for mot 1 la virginia in support of 0 charles 1 I and one ot of th the first to hall charle H 11 as aj the lawful sove sovereign relsa 0 of england lived tor for anany years a near neighbor of 0 thomas hanks the loyalist ancestor of 0 robert robart E U lee and the rebel ancestor of 0 abraham lincoln were next plantation neighbors la in gloucester county furthermore when bacons bacans rebellion was over and the hanks family moved across the rappa hannock to so did the lees leas and as thomas hanks had long lived neighbor to colonel richard lee lea on the south shore of the rappahannock Rappa hannock their children in successive genera eions lived neigh neighbors Dors on the north shore of 0 th same stream the lees established their place at a plantation which they named stratford and the Hank ses intermarrying Inter marrying with the woodbridge family whose plantation occupied the site sit of an old indian village not far away lived tor for a hundred years with leos on three sides of them it was only natural therefore that sometime there would be intermarriage of the two families and that Is exactly what took place the original hochard tee lee had bad seven sons and one of these had a son named william who married a dorothy taylor the daughter of an elizabeth taylor who lived to a great age william and dorothy in their turn had a son whom they named william and elizabeth taylor made this son who would be her grandson the executor of ber ha will au dated 1747 the executor took his time ani at his death in he be had not completed the settlement of his grandmothers estate when his own affairs were adjusted balances were found to be due to four of his hi children under the will of elizabeth taylor but two of these children by that time had passed away and their balances were awarded to their surviving husbands of whom one was thomas hanks and the other joseph hanks the inheritances amounted in the one case to 0 9 and in the other to ca 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 have married betsey lee and joseph hanks became the husband of ann lee joseph and ann had a daughter lucy who became the mother of nancy nanci hanks flanks the mother of abraham lincoln thus robert E lee born in virginia in 1870 Is shown to have descended from one of the seven sons of col richard lee of 1642 there were four intervening generations rather wide vide apart says doctor barton because in several instances the descent was through younger son abraham lincoln born in kentucky in Is traced back to the same col richard lee through another of his seven sons but this time theft were six intervening generations in establishing the descent of abraham li lafr coin from the illustrious families of lee woof woo ridge taylor and the rest we practically assur olt ourselves of his descent also from such intimately related families as tho the Worm the cartem cartel the corbing and he be others doctor barton colb abraham lincoln sprang from the loita of the common people through second or families Lincol ns own words but bat they were not disreputable families and in his hl veins was some of the bluest blood of the first families of virginia robert E lee was born january 10 19 1807 ills his father was the brilliant and improvident light horse harry ills mother was of the tha proud stock of king carter little more than two years later on february 12 1809 in kentucky late a county of virginia in a log cabin abraham lincoln was born ills hla father was the good natured and almost impecunious tom lincoln and hla his mother was the gentle and intelligent nancy hanks all these were were native virginians gin ians lans 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 sad aad who sought the welfare of a reunited country both were men of great heart and unsullied honor both were virginians gin gln ians and both belong to the whole of america both north and south should be proud to know that these two great and noble americans we kinsmen there Is another interesting bit of history which doctor barton uncovered in his researches in the hanks ancestry we think of the ruri tann of new england as far removed from the cava liers of virginia he says but how many of ur know that a few of those same puritans we wet rt t south and mingled their blood with that of the first families of virginia perhaps it if we knew all the maternal lines we should find that both robert E lee and abraham lincoln were mayflower descendants descendant |