Show I Who Are You The Romance of of 0 Your Name By RUBY HASKINS ELLIS A Lincoln HIS Is n a place name taken T THIS J- J from Crom the town of or Lincoln In la Lincolnshire England The name names Is Ia s derived from the word ha found In Gaelic Welsh and Cornish Brit ish which mile menus means n pool pond or lake Inke and coin cola which signifies a n ridge e or neck of ot land lanel so 80 called from the situation The town of Lincoln was located on the top and side Bide of ofa a a steep hill So evidently the name came from the association association tion of or the two places the hill bill by bythe bythe bythe the lake This was the beginning of or the name but the family Is found later to have o been seated for n many generations generations gen gen- In the town of Bingham Hingham County Norfolk England It Is from the that the American LI trace descent de de- de scent Thomas Lincoln came to America from Hingham England In 1033 and was followed In 1037 by his brother Samuel They settled in HIngham Bingham Mass named for the town In their mother countr country Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel married Martha and Martha and among their ten children was Samuel through whom come the governors go of ot Massachusetts Levi Lev Lincoln fa fa- Cather father ther and son anti Enoch Lincoln who became the governor of Maine l The fourth son of or Samuel was Mordecal l who married Sarah Jones They located In ScItuate Mass nud and among their five fire children were MordecaI Mordecal Mor- Mor decal Jr and Abraham who moved roo to Monmouth county New Jersey Their son John located In Virginia where he married Moore The They had four sons and several eral dau daughters Among the sons wa tva wag Abraham who married Mary Shipley of North Carolina His Ills Hisson Hisson son Thomas Lincoln was the father father father fa fa- ther of Abraham Lincoln sixteenth President of the United States I Abraham Lincoln's grandfather rey removed re re- I y 1 SY SYi SYr r i moved to Mercer county Kentucky In 1782 1732 entered a n tract of ot acres of oC land on the south side of ot Licking creek where he built a log cabin near what is now the city of or Louisville Louis Louls- ville me Benjamin Lincoln of Massachusetts Massachusetts made a n brilliant career for tor himself during the Revolution Re At Atthe Atthe Atthe the outbreak of at the w war r he was lieutenant and anti colonel of militia There were many other who served In the American Revo lution Most of them were from the family stronghold hold Bingham Hingham Mass Among them were Amos who assisted In throwing tea ten overboard overboard overboard over over- board In the famous nos Boston ton Tea Party There were In Penns Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- s sylvania also MIshel l Lincoln served at Fort Pitt under Captain Brady There are arc In every part of ot this country today and many of ot them trace their lineage to one or another of the early earty settlers mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- In this brief sketch A Howard fIE name of or Howard Is of or Saxon Saxon Saxon Sax Sax- TilE THE on origin and Is one of or the most ancient of all surnames There Ther was one Howard or Hereward Here ward l who was living JIvIng In England In the reign of King Edward U 7 Sir John Howard was the grandfather grandfather grand grand- father of Sir Robert Hollert Howard who made the name name of ot Howard 1 1 V a r r ra os a ous by his marriage to Lady Margaret Margaret Mar Mar- garet Mowbray l whose line of descent de- de scent was claimed from I King Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward I and through h him to Philip le Ie IlardI one time King Kin of It France The founder of or the Howard family fans fame ily in America was ns Matthew Howard howart How lIoW- art ard who came conic to this country in HMO IO aura and settled seWell near Annapolis Md e 0 Public Ledger LeOner Inc NU 1 U |