01-12-2017, 04:29 PM
(01-12-2017 04:18 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: [ -> ]She did that repeatedly.
The 1860 census lists her as 35 years old!
https://www.archives.gov/research/census...ncoln.html
So she aged only 7 years 1850-1860!
(01-12-2017 04:18 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: [ -> ]She did that repeatedly.
(01-12-2017 04:38 PM)Steve Wrote: [ -> ]If he was home, they could've given the census taker the information together.My question - would honest Abe Lincoln have let Mary cheat about documentary, "legal" data in his attendance?
(01-12-2017 07:17 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: [ -> ]My question - would honest Abe Lincoln have let Mary cheat about documentary, "legal" data in his attendance?
(01-12-2017 07:29 PM)Steve Wrote: [ -> ]I think it's a big who cares. Would he really contradict his wife in company if he was there at the time?
(01-12-2017 07:29 PM)Steve Wrote: [ -> ]I personally think in case he witnessed he would have sought a tactful/diplomatic way - accompanying the census taker to the front door and quietly ask him to correct.(01-12-2017 07:17 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: [ -> ]My question - would honest Abe Lincoln have let Mary cheat about documentary, "legal" data in his attendance?
I think it's a big who cares. Would he really contradict his wife in company if he was there at the time?
(01-14-2017 02:56 PM)RJNorton Wrote: [ -> ]I don't know, but the Lincoln family Bible (now in the LOC) includes the birth dates of the four sons in Abraham's handwriting (as well as the death date of Eddie).All the names Abraham Lincoln wrote in his father' s Bible relate to his stepmother. It's missing his brother Thomas who died as an infant and his children whom he never brought to meet his stepmother. Maybe Lincoln just copied the record from a Johnston family member who didn't have that information.
(01-14-2017 07:37 PM)Steve Wrote: [ -> ]Not all names are Johnson-related, his mother Nancy and sister Sarah aren't. However, it does seem Johnson-oriented, and it is strange, Robert wasn't mentioned. No date past 1851. Did A. L.'s stepmother inherit and keep the bible?(01-14-2017 02:56 PM)RJNorton Wrote: [ -> ]I don't know, but the Lincoln family Bible (now in the LOC) includes the birth dates of the four sons in Abraham's handwriting (as well as the death date of Eddie).All the names Abraham Lincoln wrote in his father' s Bible relate to his stepmother. It's missing his brother Thomas who died as an infant and his children whom he never brought to meet his stepmother. Maybe Lincoln just copied the record from a Johnston family member who didn't have that information.