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Show THE MIDVAI.R JOURNAL Thursday , January 30, 1930 ., 1n co n an Whe n Bab ies Babies will cry, often for no apparent reason. You may not know what's wrong, but you can always give Castoria. This SOOt1 has your little one comforted; if not, you should a doctor. Don't experiment with medicines intended for the stronger systems of adults I Most of those little upsets are soon soothed away by a little of this pleasant-tasting , gentle-acting children's remedy that children like. It may be the stomach, or may be the little bowels. Or in the case of older children, a sluggish, constipated condition. Castoria is still can • By· ELMO SCOTT WATSON LTBOUGH, as Secretary Stanton, standlilg at the bedside of the dying Lincoln exclaimed, "Now he belongs to the ages," three states have always taken particular pride In claiming as their own the great American whose birthday we celebrate on February 12. Kentucky gave him birth; Indiana nurtured him In hili boyhood and witnessed the ftrst tragedy In the life of this man of sorrowa; llllnols gave him to the nation and In h~r rich soli laid his weary body to rest when his work was done. Now, thanka· to the researches of an Indefatigable Lincoln s<:holar, at least five other states may lay claim to having contributed something to the cre&tnesa that wa1 Abraham 'tlncoln-lf heredity may be regarded as the prime factor In evaluating the greatness of a man. One of them II Massachusetts, another Is New Jersey, another P&n.DfiYivanla, another West Vlrgl:Jia and the lastand herein Ilea another example of the eternal fttnesa of tblngs.-ls that "Mother of Presidents," the commonwealth of VIrginia. The scholar who has brought to light the facts which justify thot above statements Is Wllllam E. Barton, who In hla book ''The Lineage of 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 Barton states that "This quest has carried me three times across the ocean and bas aent me to Innumerable courthouses In Vlrafnla, West VIrginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois." In the latter places he was working In virgin historical soil and amid the dusty crumbling ohl documents which he unearthed, he estab· llshed for the first lime the complete record, so fat as It seems likely ever to be complete, of Lincoln's mate1·nal ancestors, the Hankses. The story of the Great Emancipator's paternal ancestors, the Llncolns, has been told before, but Barton's Investigations have added to, and in some cases, corrected some minor errors made by previous workers In that field. It Ia In tracing the Hanks ancestral lines, however, that Doctor Barton's work has been so outstanding. "For two hundred years, from their first landing In VIrginia, no member of the Hanks famlly, 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," says Doctor Barton. "Not only so, but wars from Bacon's rebellion to the Civil war have wiped out completely the records of 80me count1e11 where our need was greatest. Compared to all these difficulties, the tracing of the paternal Lincoln line has been comparatively easy. The name of Lincoln goes back to In Its earliest form to the days of Roman occupation of England. Llndum was a Roman colony established about 86 A. D. Through the succesalve modifications of Llndum-Colonla, Lindumcolny, Lindcolon and Llndcoln the place name of Lincoln finally emerged. So there was a city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire and since In the early daJrs surnames Indicated where a man lived, there ~me Into beln~t families of Llncolns. The first r~rded use of Lincoln as a family name appears In tbe Domesday Book In 1086. Alfred de Lincoln (1. e. "Alfred who comes from the county of Lincoln") was a Saxon by birth, but his lands were llllved from confiscation by his marriage to a Norman woman. Although the name of Lincoln originated in Lincolnshire. It was from Norfolk that the first Lincoln& came to America. Abraham Lincoln's great-great-grea t-great-grandfat her was Samuel Lincoln who was born In Hingham, Norfolk, In 1619, emigrated to Ma~~~&chnsetts In t637 and died In Blqham, Men., In 1690. From this original lmmiJI'ft.Dt &e\fen Llncolna In direct llne to Abraham, the Presl:dent, can be traced. It 18 In tracIng tlila line tb!U th1'ee ~tea. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and VIrginia, get tbelr claim to the Immortal I.Jncotn. The traclag of this llne Ia also a atrfltlng commental'J OD the mlgrator1 habits of the pioneer stock from whlcb Abraham Lincoln sp~g. For not one of the aeven died In the nme town In which be was born and only one In the aame state. They are the following: I Samuel Lincoln. n MDrdecal Lincoln, Sr., was born to Hingham, Mass., In 1657 and dlecJ. lD Scituate, Mass., ID 1727. Ill Mordecai Lincoln. Jr., was born In Scituate, Mus:., April 24, 1686, and Rfter a reeldence In New leJ'IeJ cUed In Berks county, Pa., In 1136. IV JohD Lincoln was born In Berks county, Pa., lD tn8 and died In VIrginia In 1788. V Capt. Abraham Lincoln was born ln VIrginia 18 1,744 and died In Kentucky In 1786. VI Tllomas Lincoln was born In VIrginia In 1771 aad dle4 In Illinois In 1851. VD Abraham Lincoln waa born In Kentucky In 1809 and died In Washlnrton In 1865. The maternal nne ot Abraha~ Lincoln, the Ba8'bes, also trace back to England, and antedate tbe Llncolns by many years. In his lnvestl..U~ Doctor Barton found Innumerable Hantses u fW bae'a aa the reign of Klug Atbetstan and befot. • • . Athelatan dled In 941, more than a ~ntui;J before William the Ccftlquei'Qr and hla Nerma'lll lllftded Biigland aii(J aubjeeted tbe 'tlirt.hpl&~ o£I.~l'\coln, Hod~lle.Ky. Matter of Chivalry More Time to Remember "What do you do when It douht "Brown was married on the twentJOo !lbout kissing a girl?" "Give her the ninth of February." benefit of the doubt." "How fortunate!" "\Vhy so?" Gain accompanied by Ill report may "He can forget the anniversary only De called a loss.-Syrus. once In four years." • Saxons to their rule. Thus, too, there were Hankses recorded In blstory before the name of Alfred de Lincoln was written in the Domesday Book. The Hankses were Malmesbury men. There was fighting In that part of England during the English Civil war and It was as a result of this that the first Hanks came to America. He was Thomas Hanks who was one of 27 persons deported from England in 1654 as a punishment which was being Inflicted on Cromwell's men who were captured by the Royalists. Thomas Hanks became an Important landholder In what Is now Gloucester county, Virginia. The most that we know about him 18 through various land purchases but his name dlsappeara from history after the Indian uprising of 1675 and the Bacon rebellion of 1676. But In 1697 the name of William Hanks appears in Richmond county. There Is every reason to believe that he was the. son of Thomas Hanks and from him the maternal ancestry of Abraham Lincoln Is traced. That line reads as follows : I Thomas Hanks. II William Hanks. Born probably In Gloucester county, VIrginia, about 1655. Died In Richmond county In 1704. III .John Hanks. ,.Sorn In North Farnham parish In Richmond county, date unknown. and died In 1740. IV .Joseph Hanks. Born In North Farnham parish, December 20. 1725. Died In Nelson county, Kentucky In 1793. V Lucy Hanks. Born probably In 1766 In Richmond county, VIrginia, and died In 1825( ?). VI Nancy Hanks. Born in Mineral county, West Virginia In 1783. Died In Spencer county, Indiana, October 5, 1818. VII Abraham Lincoln. It wlll be noted that the pllt< •f Nancy Hanks' birth was given as Mineral coum.v. W. Va. It was not known by that name in 1783 for It wus 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 moved from Richmond county to Hampshire county some time before 1782. In March, 1784, that family again migrated, this time to Kentucky where Nancy Hanks was to meet Thomas• Lincoln, marry him in Washington county, June 12, 1806. and then on that Fehruary day 121 years ago give birth to the boy whose name was to bf!come world famous. But the fact that Massachusetts. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, VIrginia and West Virginia hove 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 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 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 ot the authentic Lee history In the Old Dominion." The second son ot Richard and Anno was also named Richard. The fiftb 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" ot Washln~rton's 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 tl~ls narrative, It is time for us to take a lesson In geography," snys Doctor Barton. And he gives that lesson thus: When Colonel Rlcba.rd Lee established his home tn VIrginia In 1642, there were but eight counties tn that commonwealth and be lived In the County of York. That county was subsequently divided and redivided and eubdlvlded. Before Colonel Lee 4ted, his estate, which he called Paradise, was located In Glouct>ater county, on the borders of New Kent, later the home of Martha Custla Washington. Gloucester was then the richest and moat populoue county In Vlrainla 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 ha.ve varied In quality, but If VIrginia had an aristocracy tn that day, Gloucester county was the center of It, and some of his friends were among the most noted men In VIrginia. We are already aware that Thomas Hanks was at least twenty-one years a resident of this Gloucester region. And now we discover that, as his holding• widened and his boundaries followed the linea of other planters, two of his patents grant blm land a.4Jolnlna the estate of Colonel Lee! Thla the thing to give. It is almost certain to clear up any minor ailment, and could by no possibility do the youngest child the slightest harm. So it's the first thing to think of when a child has a coated tongue; won't play, can't sleep, is fretful or out of sorts• Get the genuine; it always has Chas. H. Fletcher's signature OD the package. was none hther than Colonel Richard Lee, progenitor ot the Lee family, and ancestor of Robert E. Lee! That belligermt old royalist, foremost In VIrginia In eupport of Charles I, and one of the first to hall Charier II as the Ia wful sovereign of England, lived for .nany years a near neighbor of Thomas Hanks! The loyalist ancestor or Robert E. Lee and the rebel ancestor of Abraham Lincoln were next-plantation neighbors In Gloucester county! • Furthermore, when Bacon's rebellion was over, and the Hanks famtly moved across the Rappahannock, so did the Lees. And a.s Thomas Hanks had long lived neighbor to Colonel Richard Lee on the south shore of the Rappahannock, their children In successive generations lived neighbors on the north shore of the same stream. The Lees established their abiding place at a plantation whh~b they named Stratford, and the Hankses, lntermal'ry!ng with the Woodbridge family, whose pla.ntatlon occupied the sits of a.n old Indian village net far away, lived for a. hundred years with Lees 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 Richard Lee bad seven sons, and one of these bad a son named William who married a Dorothy Taylor, the daughter of an Elizabeth Taylor who lh-ed to a great age. WUllam and Dorothy In their turn had a son whom they named William, and Elizabeth Taylor made this SOD, who would be her grandson, the executor of het' vlll, dated 1747. 'l'he executor took his time, an'ti at hie death In 1764 he had not completed the settlement of his grandmother's estate. When bls own a!Talrs were 'idjusted balanctoS were found to be due to four of his children under the will of Elizabeth Taylor. But two ot 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 Hunks. The Inheritances 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 tl.l have married Betsey Lee, and Joseph Hanks be• came the husband of Ann Lee. Joseph and Ann had a daughter Lucy, who became the mother ot Nancy Hanks, 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 apart," says Doctor Barton, because In several Instances the descent was through younger son!l. Abraham Lincoln, born In Kentucky In 1809, J.s traced back to the same Col. Richard Lee through another of his seven sons, but this time tbef' 1 were six Intervening gene1·ations. "In establishing the descent of AbrahRm L"" coin from the Illustrious families of Lee, Woo«· ridge, Taylor and the rt:st, we practically assn~ ourselves of his descent also from such lntlmatet) related families as the Wormsleys, the Cartert. the Corblns and •he others," Doctor Barton ca-l> tlnues. "Abraham Lincoln sprang from the lofft of the common people through •second' or •und1J. tlngulshed' families (Lincoln's 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 born January 19, 1807. His father was the brilliant and Improvident 'Light Horse Harry.' His mother was of tiH! proud stock of 'King Carter.' Little mor• than two years later, on February 12, 1809, In Ken· tucky, late a county of VIrginia, In a log cabin, Abraham Lincoln was born. His father was the good-natured and almost Impecunious Tom Lincoln, and his mother was the gentle and Intelligent Nancy Hanks. All these were native Vl!l'glnlans. "These two men present contrasts enough, but both were Intellectual, both bad unusual ability, both were men of magnanimity, who emerged from a cruel war without hatred. aftd who sought the welfare of a reunited country. Both were men of great heart and unsullied honor. Both were Vir· glnlans, and botb 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 hlstorr which Doctor Barton uncovered In his researches In the Hanks ancestry. "We think of the Purltanrf ot New England as tar removed from the Cava· Uers of VIrginia," he says, "but how many or ur: know that a few of those same Puritans wer;,t south and mingled their blood with that ot the first families of VIrginia. Perhaps, If we knew all the maternal Jines, we should find that both Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln were MaJ11ower clescenclaDts." Ne ed les s Suffe;r~p.g. :~·.: :· The next time a headache mairat you stay at home-- ,. Or some other ache or pain prevents your keeping an engagementRemember Bayer Aspirin! For there is scarcely any pain it cannot relieve, and relieve promptly. These tablets give real relief, or millions would not continue to take them. They are quite harmleas, or the medical profession would DQt constantly prescribe them. Don't be a martyr to unnec 117 pain. To colds that might 10 easily be checked; to neuritis. neuralgia; to those pains peculiar to women; or any sWfering for which Bayer Aspirin is such an effective antidote. 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