Who is this person?

[Joe Di Cola]

(10-27-2013 10:40 PM)Anita Wrote:  Thank you Roger. Does it come with chickens? And thanks too for the link. Interesting info-some new and some I'd forgotten.

But I'm confused. Can you please clarify. There is a Mary "Polly" Richardson Egnew buried in Little Pigeon Creek cemetery. It said her father's farm was next to Thomas Lincoln and his name is John Richardson.
http://image2.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg....d=47060354

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...3115,d.aWc
states Polly was a neighbor of Lincoln in both Kentucky and Indiana.

So is "Polly" Richarson Agnew who's father is William, the same Mary "Polly" Richardson Egnew who's father is John?

Anita,

I meant to respobnd earlier today, but have been watching my 3-year-old grandson today. He is now napping, so...

There is not a lot of mention of Peggy Richardson Egnew in the Lincoln literature. She is briefly mentioned in Michael Burlingame's 2-volume "life", but only as a gossip-monger who said not-so-nice things about Nancy Hanks.

The most that is recorded about her is in Louis Warren's "Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years." It is in that book where there is mention of her boast that she was Lincoln's first sweetheart, that Abraham protected Polly and her mom from a pack of wolves, and that she refused a proposal of marriage from Lincoln. Lincoln was 8 years old when the Richardsons arrived in Indiana in 1817 and only 12 when Polly married Robert Agnew. So much for her recollections. She was NOT one of Herndon's "informants."

In William Bartelt's "Here I Grew Up", there is a brief mention of her having been interviewed by William Fortune in 1881; however, Fortune never published his interviews but only mentioned them once in a speech he gave.

I hope this information helps.

All the best,

Joe