Lincoln Relatives

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(02-25-2018 03:22 PM)L Verge Wrote:  They are descended through Lincoln's great-great grandfather , while they know their kinship to our famous President, they seldom mention it or own up to it. One family member commented on the fact that Mordecai owned a slave named Jack and another pointed out that one of Mordecai's sons married a cousin of Daniel Boone.

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...Nancy Hanks, the young Lincoln's birth mother, had died in Indiana from milk sickness in October of 1818, and the following year Thomas Lincoln returned to Kentucky and married Sarah Johnston in Elizabethtown...Sarah was the daughter of Christopher and Hannah Bush and was born in Kentucky, the last of six sons and three daughters. Her father was prosperous with extensive land holdings and knew Thomas Lincoln well...William Bush, the oldest brother of Sarah Bush, was born in 1763 and had moved with the family from New Jersey to Hardin County in 1780...legal problems of William Bush began much earlier. Although prosperous, he was frequently entangled lawsuits. His reputation was guarded and he did not enjoy the respect accorded other family members...When Sarah Bush Johnston wed Thomas Lincoln and moved to Indiana, she brought three young children and little else. Her first marriage to Daniel Johnston ended with his death in 1818, leaving her penniless...Although he (Abraham Lincoln) lived with them, grew up with them, and moved with them to Indiana and Illinois, his adult life seemed punctuated by their frequent pleas (Johnston and Hanks) for money...In October of 1798, William Bush filed suit against J. McCreery for an uncollected debt of 600 pounds with pounds damages. The was filed to pay after the delivery of four slaves sold to him by Bush...at a final 1801 trial, the jury considered the charges and noted: "We of the jury find for the Defendant five shillings in Damages..."

Manuscripts, 54.3, Summer 2002.