Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
LINCOLN ROOM UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY MEMORIAL the Class of 1901 founded by HARLAN HOYT HORNER and HENRIETTA CALHOUN HORNER THE ANCESTRY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE ANCESTRY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN J. HENRY LEA AND J. R. HUTCHINSON HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, I909 R. BY J. HENRY LEA AND J. HUTCHINSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Chf fciDcrsibc |3rtSS CAMBRIDGE • MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. TO ALL - LINCOLN LOVERS THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE LAND WHICH HE SAVED THIS VINDICATION OF THE MEMORY OF HIS ANCESTORS IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHORS € viii PREFACE task the the In the obscure and difficult of verification of American has to thank the Pedigree, the writer especially, among many kind friends who have aided him, Mrs. Caroline Hanks Hitchcock of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who generously placed at his disposal her on the Lincoln large MS. collections Hanks and families, Major George Chrisman of Chrisman Post Office, Rockingham County, whose aid alone made possible any progress in Virginia and to whom we owe the discovery of the Herring connection {heretofore unsus- whose collec- pected), Gilbert Cope of West Chester, Pennsylvania, tions have been freely drawn upon for all the portion of the work touching Pennsylvania and the Quakers, Miss Mary "Josephine Roe Lincoln and his of Gilbert, Ohio [a descendant), lastly, daughter, Frances Trumbull Lea, who made a personaljourney to the Lincoln Country in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, during the burning heats of the past summer, in the endeavour to elicit facts which cor- respondence failed to reveal. Such as it is, the writer submits the completed genealogy to the American people whom Lincoln loved so well, as a slight tribute to the memory of their best and wisest Statesman, Father and Friend.
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