L~N COLN LORE Bulletin o! the National Life Foundation - • • • -- Dr. Louis A. Warren, Editor, Published each week by The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana Number 478 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA June 6, 1988

NEAR KINSMEN OF There i::; continually appearin{o;' in Beckwith, Robert Lincoln 1904- Brumfield, Susan tho press, notes referring to inh and Mary Abraham Lincoln. An attempt to list Uncles and Aunts Lincoln Crum•) the near kinsmen of the President Hasty, Sarah Crume through which relat.ionship of more Lincoln, Mordecai 1771-1880 Married James Hasty distant fumi1y contacts may be b·aced Son of Abraham and (Bersheba Herring) Lincoln Crume, William is here attempted. The Hanks rela­ Married Louella Jones tives are named on the as::;umption Lincoh1, ~tar)• Mudd ?-1859 (Names o! other Crume children not that Lincoln's mother was the only Daugnter of Luke and ( ?) M>dd known) child of James Hanks, a son of J oscph Lincoln, Josiah 1773-1886 and Nancy Hanks, and Lucy Shipfey Son of Abraham and (Bersbeba Fathe.r·in-law Hanks, a daughter of Robert and Herring) Lincoln Todd, Robert Smith 1791-1849 Sarah Shlpley. Lincoln. Catherine Barlow Married ( l) Eliza Ann Pat·kcr who Daughter of Christopher and Bar·