Squire Mordecai Lincoln

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Most people associate Abraham Lincoln with his Kentucky birthplace, Indiana boyhood, Illinois maturity, or Washington, DC, presidency. However, Lincoln has some very intriguing ties to the Tennessee Lincolns (and Andrew Johnson).

Leroy P. Graf and Ralph W. Haskins, wrote in "The Papers of Andrew Johnson, 1822-1851", (Knoxville, 1967), on p. 5.: “Mordecai Lincoln (1788-1851) was a first cousin to Thomas Lincoln. Mordecai, who was born in Virginia and migrated to Carter County, Tennessee, moved to Greeneville in 1819. A tanner, with shoemaking as a subsidiary, Mordecai acquired an interest in a mercantile establishment and dabbled in real estate. Mordecai Lincoln became a close friend of Andrew Johnson; he served in various political offices in Greeneville with Johnson, was a close neighbor to the future President of the United States (a person who rose to that high office as the result of the death of Mordecai Lincoln's second cousin), and his nephew, Daniel Stover, married Johnson's daughter, Mary, in 1852.”

Want to know more about Squire Mordecai Lincoln, i.e.:

1) Was Mordecai Lincoln a first cousin to Thomas Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s father (is that the same as a second cousin to Abraham Lincoln or a first cousin once removed?), or was Mordecai (as other researchers say) a great-uncle of Abraham Lincoln?
2) As justice of the peace, Mordecai Lincoln officiated at the wedding of Andrew Johnson and Eliza McCardle on May 17, 1827 in Greeneville, Tenn. According to reporter John Thompson, Andrew Johnson served as a Greeneville alderman with Mordecai Lincoln and, twenty years later, sat with Mordecai's greatnephew in Congress. Who was that greatnephew?
3) Mordecai Lincoln married Sophia Heiskell. To them were born two daughters, Sarah and Mary. Sarah married Dr. William Barton, a northern man. Mary married William Brown. NPS historian John W. Bond writes in his 1969 report (Historic Structures Report, part 2. Washington, D.C) that Mordecai Lincoln’s daughter (no name given) married Jacob T. Wyrick and they had two sons ((Mordecai Lincoln Wyrick and Stephen Francis Wyrick). I thought Mary Lincoln, who married Wyrick, was a SISTER of Mordecai, making Wyrick NOT Mordecai’s father-in-law, but his brother-in-law. Am I right?
4) The Greeneville Sun published on October 31, 1932 an article, titled "Earliest Buildings of Greeneville," written by Mrs. C. E. Coile. It says that Andrew Johnson's homestead, located on present Depot and College Streets (then named: Main Cross Street and Water Street) in Greeneville, Tenn. was built by Mordecai Lincoln, who gave it to his daughter, who married Wyrick. Andrew Johnson bought this home as his first home in Greeneville, Tenn. (in 1830 or 1831). The house stood on Lot 77. But did Johnson buy Lot 77 from Mordecai Lincoln (James Galbreath sold lot 77 in July 1824 to Mordecai Lincoln) or from the heirs (his two sons) of Jacob T. Wyrick, who died in April 1829 (Mordecai Lincoln sold a part of Lot 77, including a “brick and frame house” to Jacob T. Wyrick, just before Wyrick died, but the deed had been lost and not recorded). That the house was built in 1838 (as some sources say) is not true.

Who knows more? Thanks.