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Show IN LINCOLN'S BIRTHPLACE. 1. JVoma.n Living in New England Whose Feather Wxs Born it the B Historic Log Ca.bin. Stories of the Eixrly Do.ys, , Lincoln has been dead thirty-eight years. H Most of those who personally know m him have also passed on Into sllenco, 1 and, like Washington, ho has becomo M In tbo popular mind a sort of mystical figure, associated with a bygono ago of K dramatic heroism a patron saint. H Although Now England loved Lin- B coin as much as any other section of m the country did, when it came to know H him, yet ho was always regarded as a H characteristic product of the pioneer H t country, and, although efforts not alto- M Bother successful havo boon mado to M show that ho was of Hingham nnces- M try, never till now has Massachusetts H been conscious of tho presence In this H locality of any living connection be- H tween the Immortal rail-splitter and M erar own soil. M Nevertheless for seventeen years H one of tho environs of Boston has har- H bored a woman who makes tho proud H boast that her father and Abraham H Lincoln woro first cousins; that both re born in th same rud i& cab,n R i ,onluck5S,lut threo months apart, ,,1 ,,,, ni"'hat ahtf "Prslf 'a a .T" ' 'ij TV1 " flPPHMnRianyyears boforo tho Boutbreak of t!he civil war, In the thon K i ezcccdlnglyprlmitivo town of Frank f r ' ford, Mo. and has boen for threo H months past a resident of East Pep B' porell, 'ilass., where her husband, H Charles 'W. Moore, Ib engineer in a mi mill. I H Miss Hall, for that was Mrs. Moore's V taaiden name, spent only tho first thlr- B teen years of her life in Missouri, hav- m tag been Bent to a Kentucky boarding M ichool at that age. She was married H' tnd lived in Loulsvlllo for some years, B nter romoved to Cincinnati, and after m" Iho death of her husband came East, H' married Mr. Mooro, a nntivo of Massa- chusetts, and they lived for seventeen By" years in Atlantic, a part of Qulncy un- V til they removed to Pcpporell. m "When asked to deflno her relation- , chip to Uio martyred Presldont, Mrs. H Mooro said: B "My father, William S. Hall, was a Mw con of Martha Hanks, sister of Nancy H Hanks, who married Thomas Lincoln B and became tho mother of Abraham B ,t Lincoln. So, you see, my father was H f first cousin and I was second cousin to HLv u' ho prcsidcnt' UK PK My grandfather, who married Mar HJl lu tha IIanls' waa I'ovl IIft11, an(1 tney HH aLand" Thomas and Nancy Lincoln woro UHl mlivlng together in tho little log cabin IHb YlS?n Ruo county' Kv" ln 1809 whn MB xDrnham Lincoln wa3 born there. My IH mither was born three months later ln HUB ifv 8am cabin." BHi JKfe-en questioned as to tho antoco-H antoco-H wJpMtof tbo Hanks, Lincoln and Hall HIBty ' families, Mrs. Moore says It is a trad!- i tlon of all threo families that thoy ' emigrated togother from Now England k about 200 years ago to Pennsylvania, k. from there to Virginia and later to A I Kentucky, as they eventually did tu H ! Indiana and finally to Illinois and Mis- J f sourl. Sho has been for some tlmo Hp 'f engaged ln investigating tho pos3lblo g 4early connection of tho families with H Kew England, and intends to proparo H ' genealogy ombodylng tho results of H Iter labor. H Continuing her story of tho vlclssl- Hides of the Lincoln, Hanks and Hall trflles, Mrs. Mooro says: My aunt, Rosnnno Hall, who rodo m her homo ln Maryland to Ken- ky behind hor husband on his horso (aid mo that tlioro wcro Quakors 3 ong my ancestbrs, as thero aro said flnvo boen in the Lincoln family. M ho also said that my great-grand- H (father wns killed by tho Indians at tho v etmo time that Abraham Lincoln's H ( grandfather was, whilo thoy woro H y clearing tho ground to plant corn, on ! JL thelr arr'vnl -n Kentucky. It was she uO wn0 MA mo my fatucr wn8 born -n mJb'' tho Lincoln log cabin. H "Aunt Ilosnnno said that Abo Lin- H eoln's mother used to walk five mllos K to mill to havo her corn ground, or to A buy aide of bacon, which, with corn- B pta. mush or Inhnnvrako, comprised their bill of faro tho greater part of tho tlmo. "My grandpnrents, Levi Hall and Martha Hanks, both died of tho milk-sick, milk-sick, in Indiana, ln 1818, about the samo tlmo that Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, and her undo and aunt Sparrow died. All wore burled together to-gether In rudo cofllns construced by Thomas Lincoln, who was now a widower wid-ower with two small children. After Lincoln became President, someone erected a monument over his mother's grave in the wilderness, but Aunt Roscanne told me that the scloction of the gravo for tho monument must havo been mcro guesswork, since none of the graves had ever been marked, and there was no menns of identifying any one of them." f Coming to the subject of tho migration migra-tion of tho survivors of tho threo families fami-lies from Indiana to Illinois Mrs.-Mooro Mrs.-Mooro says: "Joseph Hanks.rtvho taught Thomas Lincoln, Abo's fafier, tho carpentor's lHlilil f, c-HHI 1 ftsMMto si (Jvv' - --Sj trado, just 100 years ago, was'one of tho first settlers ln Illinois, having gono thero from Kentucky about 1820. It was his son, the famous John Hanks, still living in Missouri, who ln 1830 Induced Thomas Lincoln, Dennis Hanks and my father to pull up stakes and also removo to Illinois, whoro Abo was destined to achlovo that famo that gained for him the Presidency. "Having arrived in Macon county, 111., tho' party, which numberod thirteen, thir-teen, settlod for a whilo. My father and Abo Lincoln wore ln thoir 21st year, and thoy, with John Hanks, Abo's second cousin, built tho log cabin which some say was exhibited on Boston Bos-ton Common thirty years or moro ago. They also split the famous fence rails at that time, samplos of which did much to arouse the enthusiasm ln tho Illinois convention ln I860, which so-cured so-cured tho Presidential nomination for Lincoln. "After serving as major in tho Black Hawk war, ln which Abo Lincoln was captain, my father became ono of tho earliest settlers in Missouri, and during dur-ing the greater part of his llfo kept a tavern, first at Hannibal and lator at Frankford. "Frankford used to bo visited by Indians In-dians sometimes, and If thoy didn't find whisky beforo thoy arrived, they wore harmless, and their presence causod no uneasiness. But if they wcro drunk tho news would quickly spread and school would bo dismissed for tho day. "After a whilo a brick schoolhouso was built one and ono-half miles from town, and to get thoro wo had to fight our way through wild animals and Biiakos, for Missouri takes the bluo ribbon for snakes. At tho brick school wo were furnished with a horn, and it wild animals or Indians woro soon prowling nbout wo blow tho horn and tfio neighboring farmers got their guns and came to our rescue "When I wns a littlo girl Aunt Sally, Abraham Lincoln's stepmother, used to visit us, and sho froquontly put mo to sloop In her arras, but I never thought much about It till I was grown up nnd others romlnded mo of tho distinction I had onjoyod. "I often v'filted around among tho Hankses In my childhood, too, and my especial favorite was Grandma Hanks, as wo called John Hanks' mothor, who lived in what is now known as Qulncy, 111. I used to hold her skein of yarn for hor when sho wound it Into a ball, nnd during tho oporatlon sho would tell mo stories of her early llfo in the pioneer days in Illinois. "Ono story was ln regard to a fresV et such as used to como almost yearly to those who lived along tho river hot' toms eighty years or so ago. Qrainlnuj went several mllo3 down tho river on a raft, one dny, to the mill, to have eomo corn ground, leaving the chP dron ln tho log house. The rlvor had been threatening to rlso for Revoral days, but tho children well know from former experiences, that if the rivet lnvnded tho houso thoy woro to climb up on tho roof for safety. "Tho river roso while grandma was away and she tolled laboriously to got homo as soon as sho could. When she got nearly homo sho found everj thing J)ont, and as sho passed a tree that; fKa well submerged sho thought she lujard a cry from tho branches. Shr pnddlou to tho tree, and thoro found her baby, John Hanks, afloat in his, cradlo, which had been washed throughi tho door of tho cabin, and had drlftod! H sh liw! $' lfs9S9Rym W M A 1 L v Bfffr V 'i t'MlfcTTJlL "I ! r m Of about till it found lodgment in tho top of tho tree, whoro hl3 mother found it "Anothor of her stories wns about Guinea niggers. I supposo you don't know what Guinea nlggors woro, do you? Well, thoy wero not uncommon in tho days whemdavos woro brought from Africa. They wero very small ln stature and vory unprepossessing ln appearance and thoy were said to be cannibals. "Grandma said that in her youth she knew a young couplo who bought a pair of Guinea nlggors. Ono day their little child disappeared and it was never seen again, Thoy afterward found that tho cannibals had oaten the chlld,and they woro haugod for it "Grandma, liko most of tho Hankses nnd LIncolns, was an ardent Methodist. Metho-dist. In hor old age sho always knitted knit-ted just so much on a stocking every week day. Ono morning sho was industriously in-dustriously engaged ln tho performance perform-ance of hor allotted stint, when some of the younger folks came ln with their best clothes on. " 'Why, grandma! What aro you doing?' do-ing?' somebody asked. 'Only knitting,' sU j-epliod, with somo surprise. 'What, killing on Sunday, grandma?' 'Ib thw Sunday?' asked grandma, ln am:emcnt. When convinced that it was she unravoled every stitch she had done thnt morning, In ordor to atone as far as possible for hor dese cration of tho day." Mrs. Mooro describes having Boon with some amusement Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln making a political speech in Missouri, Mis-souri, arrayed in a long nnd exceedingly exceeding-ly crumpled Hpen "duster," and a tall hnt of anclont pattern. Sho saya that when Lincoln was nominated for President Pres-ident his humblo relatives among tho Hankses hold up their hands with amazed incredulity and exclaimed with practical unanimity: "Abe Lincoln for President? I don't bellovo It!" "Thoro was always something queer about tho Hankses," sho saya; "for although al-though thoy wero among tho earliest settlers in Illinois and had their pick of tho land, and plenty of it, and somq of them had largo, productlvo farms, yot ovory ono of them turnod out as poor as Job's cat. "My mother owned slaves boforo tho war, but my father never did, nor did any of tho Hankses, nnd for that reason rea-son thoy woro called 'poor whltos' by their noighbors who had slaves. All tuo Hanksos wero stanch supporters of tho union during the civil war." Bos- ton Globe. |