Nancy Hanks' lineage

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Salem Democrat 1924, Indiana.
Some of these old scrapbooks highlight Illinois, some Indiana, some Penn with some very interesting items, not dated.
Just glancing at that 'pardon Rev Elkins son' narrative. But old
David Elkins 1779-1857. Did you look at the pictures of his tombstones on FindaGrave and what is inscribed on them?
Of course, a man dying 1857 did not 'travel to Washington in 1861 or later' to talk to Abraham Lincoln. All these Lincoln stories may have some morsel of historical truth. Was there possibly a grandson (not even with last name of Elkins?) who
may have been in this situation? Was it some other...less notable preacher's son...did something similar and was pardoned by the president? Or just entirely fiction?