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' TS.ralmmLincobi. r XAv I II hOl rf1 I lit ""11 " ' fS&g I -- lIvT V 'J ' KobertCLcT I X If ill ' III Desperate By ELMO SCOTT WAT80N Wives d, LTHOUGH, as Secretary Stanton, standing at the bedside of the dying Lincoln exclaimed, "Now he belongs to the ages," three states product have always taken particular pride in claiming as their own the great American whose birthday we celebrate on February 12. Kentucky gave him birth; Indi-ana nurtured him in his boyhood and witnessed the first tragedy In the life of this man of sorrows; Illinois gave him to the nation and In htr rich soil laid his weary body The Transient Maid (leaving after extremely short to rest when his work was done. Now, thanks to the researches of an indefatistay) I suppose you'll send my letgable Lincoln scholar, at least five other states ters on, ma'am T Mistress Certainly, if there's room may lay claim to having contributed something to on the envelope for any more ad- the greatness that was Abraham Lincoln If dresses heredity may be regarded as the prime factor In Pearson's. evaluating the greatness of a man. One of them is Massachusetts, another is New Jersey, another Pennsylvania, another West Virginia and the last and herein lies another example of the eternal fitness of things is that "Mother of Presidents," the commonwealth of Virginia. The scholar who has brought to light the facts which Justify tha above statements is William E. Barton, who In his book "The Lineage of Lincoln," published by the Bobbs-Merrlcompany, apparently has revealed all that Is ever likely to be known about the foreCase, bears of Abraham Lincoln. In his foreword Barton states that "This quest has carried me three times across the ocean and has sent me to innumerable courthouses in West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois." In the latter places he was working in lrgin historical soil and amid the dusty crumbling COMMON head colds often "settle" old documents which he unearthed, he estabin throat and chest where they may lished for the first time the complete record, so become dangerous. Don't take a far as It seems likely ever to be complete, of the first sniffle rub on chance Lincoln's maternal ancestors, the Ilankses. The Children's Musterole once every hour f or five hours. story of the Great Emancipator's paternal anChildren's Musterole is just good old cestors, the LIncolns, has been told before, bnt j Musterole, you have known so long, in Barton's investigations have added to, and in milder form. some cases, corrected some minor errors made Working like the trained masseur, this previous workers in that field. by famous blend of oil of mustard, camphor, menthol and other ingredients brings It Is in tracing the Hanks ancestral lines, howrelief naturally. It penetrates and stimu- -' ever, that Doctor Barton's work has been so outjates blood circulation, helps to draw out "For two hundred years, from their standing. infection and pain. first landing In Virginia, no member of the Hanks Musterole full on hand. strength Keep family, In the ancestral line of Abraham Lincoln, Tor adults and the milder Children's ' Musterole for little tots. All made one known scratch of the pen to aid the druggists. CHILDREN'S genealogist, and tbe public records are almost incredibly scarce," says Doctor Barton. "Not only so. but wars from Bacon's rebellion te the Civil war hive 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 has been comparaBOLD tively easy. The name of Lincoln goes back to in its earliest form to the days of Roman occupaA Quiet Place. tion of England. Lindum was a Roman colony Lady (meeting an old acquaintance) I'm Just ofT to the cemetery, Mr. established about 86 A. D. Through the succesO'Brien. What sort of a place Is itt sive modifications of Llndum Colonla, Lindum-colnLlndcolon and Llndcoln the place name of Pat Sure, it's a lovely place peoLincoln flnnlly emerged. So there was a city of Deare to be burled there. dying ple Lincoln In Lincolnshire and since in the early troit News. days surnames Indicated where a man lived, there came into being families of LIncolns. The first recorded use of Lincoln as a family name appears In the Domesday Book in 1083. Alfred de Lincoln (L e. "Alfred who comes from the county of was a Saxon bv birth, but his lands were saved from confiscation by his marriage to a Norman woman. Although the name of Lincoln originated in . Lincolnshire, It was from Norfolk that the first LIncolns came to America. Abraham Lincoln's was Samuel Lincoln who was born In HIngham, Norfolk, in 1C19, emigrated to Massachusetts In 1C.17 and died in HIngham, Mass., In 1000. From this original Immigrant sevwi 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 ira- mortal 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 cot one of the seven died In the same town In which he was born and only one in 'When I was a young the same state. They are the following: single girl I took Lydia E I Samuel Lincoln. II Mordecal Lincoln, Sr., was born in HIngRnkham's Vegetable Comham, Mass., in 1C57 and died in Scltuate. Mass, because pound my mother did in 1727. and she gave it to me. After III Mordecal Lincoln, Jr., was born in Scltnate, I married I took k before my Mass., April 24, 1C80, and after a residence In New Jersey died In Berks county, Pa., In 1738. children were born and afterIV John Lincoln was born in Berks county, Pa, wards, and I have eight living In 1716 and died in Virginia In 17S3. children. I am now a grandV Capt Abraham Lincoln was born in Virginia In 1744 and died In Kentacky in 17S6. mother and still take it and VI Thomas Lincoln was born la "Virginia in still recommend it when any 1778 and died In Illinois in 1SGL one is tired and VII Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky Mrs. Alfred Iverson, St. In 1809 and died in Washington In ISf. Nebraska. The maternal line of Abraham Lincoln, the Hanfcses, also trace back td England, and antedate tbe LIncolns by many years. In his Investigations, Doctor Barton found innumerable Ilankses ns far back as the reign of King Athelstan and hefore . . . Athelstan died la 941, more than a entury before William the Conqueror and his Xormani invaded England and' subjected the Phillips i .Milk of Magnesia 1 Mothers . .Watch Vlr-ginl- a, Children's colds I - ? y, :,.(. ..,.; Lin-coin- ,4 n 1! MM 7. run-down- ." Ed-ward- s, known to boll tneir TJirthplace of Lincoln., Hoderwillclfy pipes mm? rule. Thus, too, there were in history before the name of Alfred de Lincoln was written in the Domesday Saxons to their Ilankses recorded . 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 de- ' ported 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 Is through various land purchases but his name disappears 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. Born In North Farnham parish in Richmond county, date unknown, and died in 1740. IV Joseph Hanks. Born In North Farnham 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. parish, December VII Abraham Lincoln. will be noted that the place of Nancy Hanks' birth was given as Mineal 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 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 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 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 interesting still Is the fact that the two outstanding leaders In the Civil war were relatives. In one of his chapter head-ing- s 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 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 Let, who married the Lucy Grymes who according to the story was "the Lowland Beauty" of Washington's "! early life. The second child anil oldest son of Lieut Col. Lee was MnJ. 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 Cen-erLee was Robert E. Lee, of Arlington and . . Appomattox. . "And now, before we introduce the Hanks family Into this narrative, It Is time for ns to take a lesson in geography," says Doctor Barton. And he gives that lesson thus: When Colonel Richard Ltt establinhrd hit hom In Virginia In iHi, there were but counties In that commonwealth and kt lived alght In the County of York, That county was subsequently divided and redlvlded and subdivided. Before Colonel Le died, hla estate, which he called Paradise, was located In Gloucester county, on the borders of New Kent, later the home of Martha Custia Washing--ton- . Gloucester waa then the richest and most pop. uloua county In Virginia and was In the peninsula formed by the Tork river on the south and the Rappahannock on tha north. His neighbors may be presumed to hava varied In quality, but If la had an aristocracy In that day, Gloucester of county was the center It, and some of his friends were among-- the most noted men In Vlr-ti- n It al Vlr-gln- In. are already aware that Thomas Hanks wu at least twenty-on- e years a resident of this Gloucester region. And now we discover that, as hi widened and We his boundaries followed the holdings lines of other planters, two of his patents grant him land adjoining the estate of Colonel Lee I This rT'f Thomas Hanks 7v T '' authority of tutgood-bycpipcIWell,it'stI- ttclingering over-stro- ng tobacco, me Walter Raleigh's Patent adjoining landof CoLLee s ge BROWN h. WILLIAMSON g TOBACCO ;, CORPORATION, KlUttly Sir 'V<er Raleigh Smoking 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 had 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 her will, e. Sir smol-in- in gold foil to Leep it fresh ktl fragrant? Wives positively love it It dated 1747. The executor took his time, and at his death in 17G4 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 his children nnder 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, i 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 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 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 sons. Abraham Lincoln, born 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, Wood-rldgTaylor and the rest, we practically assured ourselves of his descent also from such Intimately related families as the Wormsleys, the Carters, the Corblns and he others," Doctor Barton continues. "Abraham Lincoln sprang from the loins of the common people through 'second' or undistinguished' 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. nis father was the brilliant and improvident 'Light Horse Harry.' His mother was of the 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. His father was the 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 we-- e 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 tbe whole of America, Both 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 In the Hanks ancestry. "We think of the Puritans of New England as far removed from the Cava-tier- s of Virginia," be says, "but how of us many know that a few of those same Puritans went south and mingled their blood with that of the first families of Virginia. Perhaps. If we knew all the maternal lines, we should find that both Rob-ert E. and Abraham Lincoln were Mayflower . descendants." favorite mixture. Its a blend of cnoice tobaccos mellowed to a surpassing mildness and flavor, and wrapped next-plantati- Ie Husbands' tkose Husbands discovered :: was none other than Colonel Richard Lee, progenitor of the Lee family, and ancestor of Robert E. Lee! That belligerent old royalist, foremost in Virginia In support of Charles I, and one of the first to hall Charles II as the lawful sovereign of England, lived for many years a near neighbor of Thomas Hanks! The loyalist ancestor of Robert E. Lee and the rebel ancestor of Abraham Lincoln were neighbors In Gloucester county! Furthermore, when Bacon's rebellion was over, and the Hanks family moved across the Rappahannock, ao did the Lees. And as Thomas Hanks had long lived neighbor to Colonel Richard Lee on the south shore of the Rappahannock, their children In successive-generationlived neighbors on the north shore of the same stream. 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