Lincoln's Birth

[Steve Whitlock]

(04-04-2020 05:22 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(04-04-2020 04:15 PM)Steve Whitlock Wrote:  There seems to be some confusion as to exactly who went to get Peggy Walters, Thomas Lincoln or Abraham Enlow, according to the 30 Jun 1906 testimony of John C. Friend.

Peggy Walters reportedly said, "I was twenty years old, then, and helping to bring a baby into the world was more of an event to me than it became afterward. But I was married young, and had a baby of my own, and I had helped mother, who, as you know, was quite famous as a granny-woman, and I had gone several times to help when I was sent for. It was Saturday afternoon, I remember, when Tom Lincoln sent over and asked me to come, and I got up behind the boy that rode across to fetch me, and I rode across to the cabin that then stood here. It was a short ride, less than a mile."

Steve, do you know who "the boy" is?

Roger,

The boy is Abraham Enlow, about age 15 at the time. Peggy Walters was his half-sister. Personally, I think this is the genesis of the NC Abraham Enloe/Enlow myth. Somebody heard an Abraham Enlow was involved and the misdirect took place. The Hardin/Larue Co., KY Abraham Enlow later stated that he had never touched Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and he believed Abe's father was Tom Lincoln. I have notes on that, but would have to search for them. I'm sure a Google would locate a reference.

Since it's hearsay, John C. Friend may have gotten the story reversed as to who went to get Peggy Walters. The consensus seems to be it was Abraham Enlow who got her. She gives that firsthand account.

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The information for the birth of Abraham Lincoln is what finally got me on-board. With Polly (Hanks) Friend and Elizabeth (Hanks) Sparrow as aunts of Nancy Hanks Lincoln she had to be from the Joseph Hanks and Anne "Nannie" (Lee) Hanks line.

Dennis Hanks was suspect for veracity, and it seemed to me that John Hanks was getting his information from Dennis and his own father, William Hanks, but I had not yet gotten to statements of other Hanks and Sparrows that they knew of the relationship as well.

After this point it was a matter of getting an original record to prove a daughter of Mary "Polly" (Hanks) Friend and Jesse Friend as a cornerstone for the mtdna study. I can't attach that record here, it's too big at 8.26 MB, and the marriage records for Mary Friend, dtr of Jesse Friend, to Aaron Buckles 6 Dec 1836 are .pdf files, so I can't attach them either. John Buckles was her guardian.