On October 5, 1818, Nancy Lincoln succumbed to milk sickness, leaving 11-year-old Sarah in charge of a household including her father, 9-year-old Abraham, and Nancy's 19-year-old orphan cousin, Dennis Hanks. Ten years later, on January 20, 1828, Sarah died while giving birth to a stillborn son, devastating Lincoln. On December 2, 1819, Thomas married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with three children of her own. Abraham became close to his stepmother, and called her "Mother". Lincoln disliked the hard labor associated with farm life. His family even said he was lazy, for all his "reading, scribbling, writing, ciphering, writing Poetry, etc".
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Abraham Lincoln | Mother's death
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what do dc stand for in washington dc
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District of Columbia.
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where is it located ?
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In the United States of America.
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The Lincoln Memorial, the United States Capitol, the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Pier, to name a few.
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A 2010 study found that 5% percent of city blocks accounted for more than 25% of the district's total crimes.
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Paris and Rome.
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Roadways, metro and airports, to name a few.
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when was the fist memorial mentioned above constructed ?
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1868.
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It was public memorial to United States President Abraham Lincoln.
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He was mostly self-educated, except for some schooling from itinerant teachers of less than 12 months aggregate.
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He was a religious skeptic.
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His stepmother acknowledged he did not enjoy "physical labor", but loved to read.
Abraham Lincoln | Mother's death
On October 5, 1818, Nancy Lincoln succumbed to milk sickness, leaving 11-year-old Sarah in charge of a household including her father, 9-year-old Abraham, and Nancy's 19-year-old orphan cousin, Dennis Hanks. Ten years later, on January 20, 1828, Sarah died while giving birth to a stillborn son, devastating Lincoln. On December 2, 1819, Thomas married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with three children of her own. Abraham became close to his stepmother, and called her "Mother". Lincoln disliked the hard labor associated with farm life. His family even said he was lazy, for all his "reading, scribbling, writing, ciphering, writing Poetry, etc".
Abraham Lincoln | Mother's death
Abraham Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks was claimed to be of African descent (Ethiopian). According to historian William E. Barton, a rumor "current in various forms in several sections of the South" was that Lincoln's biological father was Gorge Enloe, which Barton dismissed as "false". According to Doug Wead, Enloe publicly denied this connection to Lincoln but is reported to have privately confirmed it. Another claim was that Lincoln was "part Negro", but that was unproven. According to Lincoln's law partner William H. Herndon, Lincoln had "very dark skin" although "his cheeks were leathery and saffron-colored" and "his face was ...
African-American heritage of presidents of the United States | Abraham Lincoln
If Americans used that system, Abraham Lincoln would have been called "Abraham, son of Thomas of Kentucky" (where he was born). In some rare occasions, if a person was illegitimate or fathered by a non-citizen, they might use their mother's name (metronym) instead of their father's. Ten days after a birth, relatives on both sides were invited to a sacrifice and feast called "dekátē" (), "tenth day"; on this occasion the father formally named the child. Demosthenes was unusual in bearing the same name as his own father; it was more common for names to alternate between generations or between lines of a family.
Ancient Greek personal names | Single names and names within families
Nancy Hanks Lincoln (February 5, 1784 – October 5, 1818) was the mother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Her marriage to Thomas Lincoln also produced a daughter, Sarah, and a son, Thomas Jr. When Nancy and Thomas had been married for just over 10 years, the family moved from Kentucky to Perry County, Indiana, in 1816. Nancy Lincoln died from milk sickness or consumption at the Little Pigeon Creek Community in Spencer County when Abraham was nine years old.
Nancy Lincoln | Introduction
There is also a theory that Captain Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Lincoln's father, was married first to Mary Shipley. Lea and Hutchinson said in 1909 that Mary Shipley was from Lunenburg County, Virginia. She was believed to be the daughter of Robert and Sarah Shipley. Having died by 1779, Mary is believed, under this theory, to be the mother of Captain Abraham Lincoln's oldest children. Bathsheba Lincoln appears on real estate documents by 1780 and is believed to be the mother of Thomas Lincoln. Author and historian William Barton said in 1927 that the following account was undisputed for 25 years: Mary Shipley was sister to women who married: Joseph Hanks, maternal grandfather of Nancy Hanks, Mr.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | Mary Shipley
Nancy Hanks was the mother of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America. Nancy Hanks may also refer to:
Nancy Hanks (disambiguation) | Introduction
Lincoln never joined a religious congregation; however, his father, mother, sister and stepmother were all Baptists. Abraham's parents, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, belonged to Little Mount Baptist Church, a Baptist congregation in Kentucky that had split from a larger church in 1808 because its members refused to support slavery. Through their membership in this anti-slavery church, Thomas and Nancy exposed Abraham and Sarah to anti-slavery sentiment at a very young age. After settling in Indiana, Lincoln's parents continued their Baptist church membership, joining the Big Pigeon Baptist Church in 1823. When the Lincoln family left Indiana for Illinois in March 1830, Thomas and his second wife, Sally, were members in good standing at the Little Pigeon Creek Baptist Church.
Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln | Early religious beliefs
It was finally decided that a name would be chosen by means of a ballot, i.e.by placing names in a hat, a method that Hannah was not very comfortable with. Realizing, however, that her son would likely return home with out a name otherwise, Hannah acquiesced to the procedure. Hannah, being a loyal Democrat, suggested the name of "Albert", after Albert Gallatin from her home state of Pennsylvania. Hannah's mother opted for "Ulysses", after an ancient Greek hero, which Jesse seconded. Grant's step-grandmother Sarah Simpson, an educated woman who read French classical literature, also favored the name Ulysses. Finally, at a family gathering, the name "Ulysses", was drawn from ballots placed in a hat.
Hannah Simpson Grant | Mother of a general and president
Susa Young Gates, a daughter of Young and a women's rights activist, stated that the "great Heavenly Mother was the great molder" of Abraham's personality. "Gates speculated that Heavenly Mother has played a significant role in all our lives, looking over us with 'watchful care' and providing 'careful training.
Heavenly Mother (Mormonism) | Statements by church leaders
In Genesis chapter 17 "Almighty God" changed Abram’s name to Abraham, for he would be a father of many nations. And his wife Sarah's name was called Sarah, for she would be a mother of nations. Three visitors came to Abraham and said that he would have a son. Sarah believed she was too old to have a child and laughed. Yet she did conceive (Genesis 21:1-7) and had a baby named Isaac. After the death of his mother, Sarah, Isaac married Rebekah. Abraham then married Keturah, who bore him six more sons – Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.
Abraham's family tree | Biblical narrative
Nancy's assumed mother, Lucy, is related to the Hanks, either through birth or marriage. Nancy's grandparents are believed to be Ann ("Nannie") and Joseph Hanks of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia. They are said to have raised her from infancy until about nine years of age when her grandfather died. The question is whether Nancy is related to the Hanks on her paternal or maternal side. ... He [Thomas Lincoln] married Nancy Hanks – mother of the present subject [Abraham Lincoln] – in the year 1806. She was also born in Virginia; and relatives of hers of the name of Hanks, and other names, now reside in Coles, in Macon, and in Adams Counties, Illinois, and also in Iowa.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | Maternal and paternal relationship theories
After Captain Lincoln's death, Thomas's mother, Bathsheba Lincoln, moved to Washington County, Kentucky, while Thomas worked at odd jobs in several Kentucky locations. Thomas also spent a year working in Tennessee, before settling with members of his family in Hardin County, Kentucky, in the early 1800s. The identity of Lincoln's maternal grandfather is unclear. In a conversation with William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner and one of his biographers, the president implied that his grandfather was "a Virginia planter or large farmer", but did not identify him. Lincoln felt that it was from this aristocratic grandfather that he had inherited "his power of analysis, his logic, his mental activity, his ambition, and all the qualities that distinguished him from the other members and descendants of the Hanks family." Lincoln's maternal grandmother, Lucy Shipley Hanks, migrated to Kentucky, with her daughter, Nancy.
Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln | Ancestry
Jessie Harlan Lincoln (November 6, 1875 – January 4, 1948) was the second daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln, the granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln, and the mother of Mary Lincoln Beckwith and Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, the last undisputed Lincoln descendant.
Jessie Harlan Lincoln | Introduction
Thomas then worked at odd jobs in Kentucky and Tennessee before the family settled in Hardin County, Kentucky in the early 1800s. The heritage of Lincoln's mother Nancy remains unclear, but it is widely assumed that she was the daughter of Lucy Hanks. Thomas and Nancy married on June 12, 1806, in Washington County, and moved to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. They had three children: Sarah, Abraham, and Thomas, who died an infant. Thomas Lincoln bought or leased farms in Kentucky before losing all but of his land in court disputes over property titles. In 1816, the family moved to Indiana where the land surveys and titles were more reliable.
Abraham Lincoln | Early life
Some believe that Abraham Lincoln was born on Puzzle Creek near Bostic. The Bostic Lincoln Center points to historians and Lincoln biographers that put Lincoln's birth 5 years earlier than is commonly accepted. These histories have him born to his mother Nancy Hanks and took the name Lincoln only after Hanks moved to Kentucky with the then infant Abraham. Richard Martin and 15 other men have been named as Abraham Lincoln's father.
Bostic, North Carolina | Abraham Lincoln
The debate continues over whether Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was born out of wedlock. Lucy and Nancy resided with Lucy's older sister, Rachael Shipley Berry, and her husband, Richard Berry Sr., in Washington County, Kentucky. Nancy is believed to have remained with the Berry family after her mother's marriage to Henry Sparrow, which took place several years after the women arrived in Kentucky. The Berry home was about a mile and a half from the home of Thomas Lincoln's mother; the families were neighbors for seventeen years. It was during this time when Thomas met Nancy. Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were married on June 12, 1806, at the Beech Fork settlement in Washington County, Kentucky.
Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln | Ancestry
With the death of his son Edward in 1850 he more frequently expressed a dependence on God. He never joined a church, although he frequently attended First Presbyterian Church with his wife beginning in 1852. In the 1850s, Lincoln asserted his belief in "providence" in a general way, and rarely used the language or imagery of the evangelicals; he regarded the republicanism of the Founding Fathers with an almost religious reverence. The death of son Willie in February 1862 may have caused him to look toward religion for solace. After Willie's death, he questioned the divine necessity of the war's severity.
Abraham Lincoln | Religious and philosophical beliefs
Another rumor, perhaps the start of all Abraham Enlow rumors, was that Abraham Enloe or Enlow was Abraham's birth father. The story is that Thomas and Nancy's neighbor at the time of Abraham's birth, Abraham Enlow, was the birth father. What makes this difficult is that the Lincolns did not move near the Enlows until Nancy had already conceived Abraham, Enlow would have been 14 at that time and Enlow never admitted to being the father of Abraham Lincoln. He did tell a story, though, that the child was named after him [perhaps not knowing that Thomas' father was named Abraham] because he was sent to get midwives to assist Nancy in the birth of the baby.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | Rumors and theories
Tradition states that Captain Abraham Lincoln was buried next to his cabin, which is now the site of Long Run Baptist Church and Cemetery near Eastwood, Kentucky. A stone memorializing Captain Abraham Lincoln was placed in the cemetery in 1937. Bathsheba Lincoln was left a widow with five underage children. She moved the family away from the Ohio River, to Washington County, where the country was more thickly settled and there was less danger of a Native American attack. Under the law then operating, Mordecai Lincoln, as the eldest son, inherited two-thirds of his father's estate when he reached the age of twenty-one, with Bathsheba receiving one-third.
Abraham Lincoln (captain) | Death
Many later Lincoln descendants, including the original emigrant's son, were named Samuel in succeeding generations. Samuel's mother also belonged to a family long associated with American government: the Gilmans of Exeter, New Hampshire. Samuel's mother Bridget Gilman was the daughter of Edward Gilman of Hingham, Norfolk, England, whose son Edward Gilman Jr. emigrated to Hingham, Massachusetts, later to Ipswich, Massachusetts and finally to Exeter, where he and his family became prominent businessmen, elected officials and, later, ardent Revolutionary War patriots. Nicholas Gilman, a signer of the U.S. Constitution, was a member of this family.
Samuel Lincoln | Life and family in Massachusetts
President Abraham Lincoln considered his family connections to be significant for his presidential campaign. In June 1860, he wrote a short autobiography to be used in his bid for the White House. In this sketch, he highlighted his ancestry and extended relatives including Mary Lincoln, the eldest of his father's sisters. He also indicated that some of her descendants were known to be in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. While he was President, he mentions his Uncle Ralph and Aunt Mary again in a letter to a cousin, Susana Weathers, thanking her for a pair of socks. The President's father, Thomas, had dealings with his sister, Mary, for many years.
Mary Lincoln Crume | President Abraham Lincoln's "Aunt Mary"
Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died in 1818 while the family lived in a log cabin in the Little Pigeon Creek Community in southern Indiana. In 1819, Lincoln's father Thomas Lincoln married the widowed Sarah Johnston of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. In 1830, Thomas and Sarah followed their daughter and son-in-law and other family members as they migrated west from Indiana into Central Illinois; Abraham, though now a legal adult, opted to follow his step-mother and father. After a wretched winter in 1830–1831 at a campsite west of Decatur, young Abraham left the family to start his own homestead and seek his fortune in Sangamon County.
Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site | History
Stories then emerged of other Abraham Enlows or Engloes who may have been the birth father.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | Rumors and theories
The neighbors of the Lincolns were unaware that Abraham was a name in the Lincoln lineage as well.
LaRue family | History
There is long standing controversy regarding Nancy Hanks Lincoln's heritage. Nancy was the wife of Thomas Lincoln and mother of the 16th president Abraham Lincoln. Her familial background according to historian Albert J. Beveridge is as "Dim as the dream of a shifting mirage ... her face and figure waver through the mists of time and rumor." Although no documentation has been found to identify Nancy Hanks' parents, there are two main theories about the identity of Nancy's mother: In either case, Nancy's father may have been James Hanks.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | Introduction
The other children inherited nothing. Life was hard, particularly for Thomas, the youngest, who got little schooling and was forced to go to work at a young age.
Abraham Lincoln (captain) | Death
Age 10 when she arrived, he always addressed her as "Mama." She encouraged his appetite for reading and learning, including access to books she had brought from Kentucky, including the Bible, "Aesop's Fables", "The Pilgrim's Progress" and "Lessons in Elocution".
Sarah Bush Lincoln | Indiana
Lincoln died as said by some with the milk sickness, some with a galloping quick consumption", i.e. a wasting disease or tuberculosis. It has also been theorized that Nancy Lincoln had a marfanoid body habitus (or a marfanoid type of physique) with the same unusual facial features as her son. This theory suggests that she died of cancer (which is a wasting disease) related to multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2b (MEN2B), and that she passed the gene for this syndrome to her son (see Medical and mental health of Abraham Lincoln).
Nancy Lincoln | Death
Mary Ada Lincoln Crume, (1775 – c. 1832 was born in Linville Creek, Rockingham County, Virginia and is buried in the cemetery at Crume Valley, Breckinridge County, Kentucky. She was the aunt of the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln highlighted his aunt in an autobiographical sketch written for his political campaign.
Mary Lincoln Crume | Introduction
There was some confusion about which Nancy Hanks was the mother of Abraham Lincoln. Mother Nancy was sometimes confused with her great-aunt, Nancy Hanks. One rumor is that Nancy Hanks was raised in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Rather than being based upon published information or direct family member testimony, this theory was based upon locals belief of rumors that Hanks was raised in North Carolina. She is also said to have come to Kentucky in 1786 from the Catawba River area of North Carolina. Another rumor was that Nancy Hanks was born into the Tanner family and was raised by Abraham Enlow of Rutherford County, North Carolina.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | Rumors and theories
Memorials were established to recognize Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln, whose gravesite is now contained within the adjacent Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial. There is also an interpretive center.
Lincoln State Park | Introduction
In 1871, tragedy beset the family again when Lincoln's only surviving brother, Tad, died at the age of 18, leaving his mother devastated with grief. Lincoln, who was already concerned about what he thought were his mother's "spend-thrift" ways and eccentric behavior, and fearing that she was a danger to herself, arranged to have her committed to a psychiatric hospital in Batavia, Illinois, in 1875. With his mother in the hospital, he was left with control of her finances. On May 20, 1875, she arrived at Bellevue Place, a private, upscale sanitarium in the Fox River Valley. Three months after being installed in Bellevue Place, Mary Lincoln engineered her escape.
Robert Todd Lincoln | Relationship with Mary Todd Lincoln
Joseph Hanks (1725–1793) was the great-grandfather of United States President Abraham Lincoln. It is generally accepted that Joseph was the father of Lucy Hanks, the mother of Nancy Hanks Lincoln. There is also a theory that Joseph and his wife, Ann ("Nannie"), had a son named James who married Lucy Shipley, sired Nancy Hanks, but died before Lucy and Nancy came to Kentucky. Joseph Hanks' children and grandchildren figure prominently in Abraham Lincoln's youth.
Joseph Hanks | Introduction
His mother was Mary Judd Farnham, an 1863 graduate of Knox College, and a daughter of Eli Farnham and Jerusha Brewster Loomis. She attended the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas at Knox College on October 7, 1858. It was said of her that she was a woman of superior mental endowments. She was the president of the Vermont Chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and was active in her church and philanthropic work. Her first cousin was Dr. George Trumbull Ladd an American philosopher, educator and psychologist.
Henry Farnham Perkins | Early life and ancestry
This information, though, is not present in recent, solid historical books about Nancy Hanks. Perhaps a sign that the Berrys did not consider Nancy a daughter, in Richard Berry's will he mentions a daughter Sarah [Mitchell], but not Nancy. Published information about Nancy's mother being Lucy Shipley and her father being James Hanks is contrary to the theory that Nancy was illegitimate and that Lucy was born into the Hanks family, as was published by William E. Barton in the "Life of Abraham Lincoln" and Michael Burkhimer in "100 Essential Lincoln Books". John M. Hay and John George Nicolay, authors of "Abraham Lincoln" asserted that Berry was a connection of Lincoln's.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | Summary
Cows often roamed in woods and underbrush, where the white snakeroot grew. Most of those in Little Pigeon Creek with milk sickness became deathly ill, including Abraham's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln. She succumbed and died on October 5, 1818. She was buried in a gravesite behind the family cabin next to the Lincolns' closest neighbor, Nancy Rusher Brooner. Brooner had also been ill with milk sickness, was nursed by Nancy Lincoln, and died two weeks before on September 18. Nancy's maternal aunt and uncle, Elizabeth and Thomas Sparrow, with whom she had grown up, also died of the illness and were buried nearby, at what became known as Pioneer Cemetery.
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial | Lincoln in Indiana
In all three of the religious traditions, Abraham is revered as the first monotheist. In this sense, he is the "father" and the members can be thought of as his "daughters." Even though they are "daughters" of different "mothers," Sarah and Hagar, Abraham is the father of all three religions. By naming themselves Abraham's daughters, the group members are saying that there is more holding them together than separating them.
Daughters of Abraham | Meaning of name
Mary Todd "Mamie" Lincoln Isham (October 15, 1869 – November 21, 1938) was a granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln, the first daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln and the mother of Lincoln Isham.
Mamie Lincoln Isham | Introduction
Mary Ada Lincoln Crume was the third child of Captain Abraham Lincoln (May 13, 1744 – May 1786) and his wife, Bathsheba Herring Lincoln (c. 1742 – 1836), a daughter of Alexander Herring (c. 1708 – 1778) and his wife Abigail Harrison Herring (c. 1710 – c. 1780) of Linville Creek. Five children were born to Abraham and Bathsheba Lincoln: Mordecai born circa 1771, Josiah born circa 1773, Mary born circa 1775, Thomas born 1778, and Nancy born 1780. Mary was born at the Lincoln Family Homestead, Linville Creek in then Augusta County, Virginia (now Rockingham County, Virginia). At age 6, her parents sold their land and the family moved to Jefferson county, Kentucky.
Mary Lincoln Crume | Early life and family
Frances C. McEwen was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of John S. McEwen and Isabella Barkley Highlands McEwen. She met Abraham Lincoln once, in Illinois, soon after he was elected president in 1861.
Frances McEwen Belford | Early life
NOTE: Ninian W. Edwards was also brother-in-law of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and his daughter, Julia, was daughter-in-law of U.S. Representative David J. Baker. Daniel Pope Cook was nephew of U.S. Senator John Pope and U.S. Representative Nathaniel Pope.
List of United States political families (C) | The Cooks and Edwards
A minister could not reach the frontier settlement until the following spring, when he conducted a funeral service for all of the dead. Following his mother's death, young Abraham Lincoln continued to work on the farm and was cared for by his older sister Sarah. In 1819 their father married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow of Elizabethtown, Kentucky whom he had known from the years there. She had three children, all of whom came with her to share the Lincoln cabin. Abraham shared the cabin's loft with his step brother John Johnston and his cousin Dennis Hanks for the rest of his time in Indiana.
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial | Lincoln in Indiana
NOTE: Robert Todd Lincoln was also son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
List of United States political families (H) | The Harlans and Lincolns
Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was the grandfather of Eleanor Colford Jones (1841–1906), who was married to Augustus Newbold Morris (1838–1906), a descendant of Declaration of Independence signor Lewis Morris, and who was a manager of the Home for Incurables at Fordham, a director of the Zoological Society, and a vice-president of the Plaza Bank. Through his daughter Anna, he was the grandfather of Charles Schermerhorn Suydam (1850–1887), Walter Lispenard Suydam (1854–1830), and Helen Suydam (1858–1919), who married R. Fulton Cutting (1852–1934) (brother of William Bayard Cutting), who married in 1883. Through his daughter Helen, he was the grandfather of John Treat Irving III (1841–1936), Cortlandt Irving (1844–1915), a lawyer, Helen Cordelia Irving (1846–1929), Frances Rogers Irving (1849–1912), Edward Irving (1854–1880), and Marion Harwood Irving (1860–1877).
Abraham Schermerhorn | Descendants
Agresta was born at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey to Joseph A. Agresta, Sr. and Darel Christensen Agresta and is a dual-citizen of Italy and the United States. Agresta is the great grandson of Robert Shipley and Sarah Shipley, great grandparents of President Abraham Lincoln and parents of Mary Shipley, the first wife of Captain Abraham Lincoln. and also the lineal descendent of American Revolutionary War Lieutenant Thomas Collins, III who was a Lieutenant in the French and Indian War and fought in the Battle of Bennington and his son, Captain Thomas Collins who had a company in Col.
Robert A. Agresta | Biography
She was always challenging and arguing and comparing. She was already thinking about things that the rest of us hadn't." On the other hand, Dunham's daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng, when asked later if her mother was an atheist, said, "I wouldn't have called her an atheist. She was an agnostic. She basically gave us all the good books—the Bible, the Hindu "Upanishads" and the Buddhist scripture, the "Tao Te Ching"—and wanted us to recognize that everyone has something beautiful to contribute." "Jesus, she felt, was a wonderful example. But she felt that a lot of Christians behaved in un-Christian ways." In a 2007 speech, Obama contrasted the beliefs of his mother to those of her parents, and commented on her spirituality and skepticism: "My mother, whose parents were nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew.
Ann Dunham | Personal beliefs
Jesse, wanting to honor his wife's father, declared the name for his son would thus be "Hiram Ulysses", though he would always refer to him as "Ulysses". When Ulysses was eighteen months old, the family moved to Georgetown, Ohio. Here Hannah gave birth to five more siblings: Simpson, Clara, Orvil, Virginia (known as Jennie), and Mary.
Hannah Simpson Grant | Mother of a general and president
Trigg and his wife had three sons and two daughters. His daughter Mary married General David Logan, and was the mother of was Stephen Trigg Logan, who would serve in the Illinois state legislature and become Abraham Lincoln law partner in Springfield, Illinois.
Stephen Trigg | Early life and family
He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. D. Lee, of Kansas City, Missouri. At the time of his death, at age 97, he was Indiana University's oldest living alumnus. By coincidence he was laid to rest on the anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
Samuel C. Parks | Death
Abraham Lincoln's great grandparents are commonly believed to be Ann ("Nannie") and Joseph Hanks of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, VA. Joseph and Ann's children and grandchildren figured prominently in Abraham's life, including:
Joseph Hanks | Abraham Lincoln
Keckley learned that her father was Armistead Burwell from her mother just before she died. She is best known for being the modiste and close friend to Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln.
Armistead Burwell (planter) | Fathered a child
Elizabeth ("Betsy") ministered to baby and mother at Abraham Lincoln's birth in 1809. Then, in 1817 one year after Thomas and Nancy moved to Indiana, Nancy's Aunt Elizabeth Sparrow, Uncle Thomas Sparrow and Cousin Dennis Hanks moved onto Lincoln's property at Little Pigeon Creek (at the Little Pigeon Creek Community). The Sparrows died in September 1818 of milk sickness, weeks later in early October Nancy also died of the poisoned milk. Nancy Hanks Lincoln was buried next to Elizabeth and Thomas Sparrow "on a knoll overlooking" the cabin. Abraham Lincoln, however, did not apparently know while growing up that the people introduced to him as Aunt Lucy and Uncle Henry were truly his grandmother and step-grandfather and Elizabeth Hanks Sparrow was not "Granny", but his aunt.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | Elizabeth Hanks and Thomas Sparrow
Born to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, he was one of 5 children of William Filene and Clara Ballin. His parents were German Jewish immigrants - his father from Posen, Prussia and mother was born in Segnitz, Bavaria - who immigrated to the United States in 1848. His father founded Filene's department stores. Known by his middle name, Lincoln, together with his older brother Edward, built his father's store into a highly successful business. A social reformer, Lincoln Filene supported the American women's suffrage movement and went against the position taken by most members of the American business community when he publicly supported President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal agenda.
Abraham Lincoln Filene | Biography
Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison (grandson of William Henry Harrison), William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding. All seven were Republicans.
Ohio | "Mother of presidents"
Sally Lincoln recalled in September 1865 that her stepson Abraham "had no particular religion" and did not talk about it much. She also remembered that he often read the Bible and occasionally attended church services. Matilda Johnston Hall Moore, Lincoln's stepsister, explained in an 1865 interview how Lincoln would read the Bible to his siblings and join them in singing hymns after his parents had gone to church. Other family members and friends who knew Lincoln during his a youth in Indiana recalled that he would often get up on a stump, gather children, friends, and coworkers around him, and repeat a sermon he had heard the previous week to the amusement of the locals, especially the children.
Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln | Early religious beliefs
Douglas. She and Lincoln had four sons together, three of whom died in childhood. Their home of about 17 years still stands at Eighth and Jackson Streets in Springfield, Illinois. She staunchly supported her husband throughout his presidency and was active in keeping national morale high during the Civil War. She acted as the White House social coordinator, throwing lavish balls and redecorating the White House at great expense; her spending was the source of much consternation. She was seated next to Abraham when he was assassinated in the President's Box at Ford's Theatre on Tenth Street in Washington. His death weighed heavily on her, as did the death of her sons.
Mary Todd Lincoln | Introduction
In 1743, John Lincoln married Rebecca Morris (1720–1806), daughter of Enoch Flowers of Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Rebecca was the widow of James Morris and the mother of a young son, Jonathan Morris.
Abraham Lincoln (captain) | Origins
Mother and daughter took on odd jobs and were supported by friends, among them Cornelia Willis. Harriet Jacobs died on March 7, 1897 in Washington, D.C., and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge next to her brother. Her tombstone reads, "Patient in tribulation, fervent in spirit serving the Lord". (Cf. Epistle to the Romans, 12:11-12)
Harriet Jacobs | Later years and death
On September 26, 1925 at Christ Episcopal Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, he was married by Rev. John Lewis Lincoln to Isabel Rockefeller (1902–1980), daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878—1934), and granddaughter of William Rockefeller (1841–1922) and James Jewett Stillman (1850–1918). Together, Frederic and Isabel had four daughters: Lincoln died at his home at 941 Park Avenue on April 7, 1968 in New York City. He also had a home in Deerpark, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Frederic W. Lincoln Jr. | Personal life
Abraham built a house on his land, across Linville Creek from his parents' home. Capt Abraham Lincoln married Bathsheba Herring (c. 1742 – 1836), a daughter of Alexander Herring (c. 1708–1778) and his wife Abigail Harrison (c. 1710 – c. 1780) of Linville Creek. The assertion that Abraham was first married to Mary Shipley has been refuted. Five children were born to Abraham: Mordecai born circa 1771, Josiah born circa 1773, Mary born circa 1775, Thomas born 1778, and Nancy born 1780.
Abraham Lincoln (captain) | Life
In 1948, Alexander's mother died at age 49, suffering from dementia; his father committed suicide four years later. He married his first wife, Yvonne Harrison, in 1948; their only child, a son Keith, was born in 1949. In 1986, Alexander said in a "Chatelaine" magazine interview: "My mother was the single biggest influence on me–before my wife, I’ve always regretted that she didn’t live to see me graduate from university."
Lincoln Alexander | Early life and education
Lincoln assumed the name of 'Mrs. Lindall,' and that she had to be encouraged by Mumler's wife (a medium) to identify her husband on the photo. Although the image has been dismissed as a fraudulent double exposure, it has been widely circulated. In a letter to the Boston Record, Mumler claimed the photograph had been taken in late February 1872.
William H. Mumler | Ghost of Abraham Lincoln
Samuel Lincoln helped build the Old Ship Church in Hingham. He married Martha Lyford of Ireland around 1649, possibly the daughter of the Rev. John Lyford, and the couple had eleven children, three of whom died in their infancy, but another three of whom lived into their eighties. Lincoln's eldest son, born August 25, 1650, was also named Samuel. The emigrant Samuel Lincoln's fourth son was Mordecai Lincoln, who became a blacksmith, and who was the ancestor of Abraham Lincoln. Genealogists have noted the common and repeated use of certain Biblical names in the Lincoln family, particularly Abraham, Samuel, Isaac, Jacob, and Mordecai, a common practice among early Puritan settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Samuel Lincoln | Life and family in Massachusetts
He was too good for this earth. The good Lord has called him home. I know that he is much better off in Heaven." Spiritualism, popularly in vogue during this era, was tried by Lincoln's wife. She used the services of mediums and spiritualists to try to contact their dead son. Lincoln allegedly attended at least one seance at the White House at this time with his wife.
Religious views of Abraham Lincoln | 1862: Bereavement and Emancipation
Elodie was the granddaughter of Gen. Levi Todd and Dr. Alexander Humphreys and grandniece of U.S. Senator John Brown. Among Elodie's large family was her elder half-sister, Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Together, they were the parents of:
Nathaniel H. R. Dawson | Personal life
William Herndon, author of "Life of Lincoln", describes Nancy Hanks Lincoln: She was above the ordinary height in stature, weighed about 130 pounds, was slenderly built, and had much the appearance of one inclined to consumption. Her skin was dark; hair dark brown; eyes gray and small; forehead prominent; face sharp and angular, with a marked expression for melancholy which fixed itself in the memory of all who ever saw or knew her. Though her life was clouded by a spirit of sadness, she was in disposition amiable and generally cheerful. Nancy was also described as "a bold, reckless, daredevil kind of woman, stepping on to the very verge of propriety." Abraham Lincoln inherited his mother's appearance and manner.
Nancy Lincoln | Description
In December 1862, President of the United States Abraham Lincoln sent a brief consoling letter to Fanny McCullough, the daughter of lieutenant colonel William McCullough, following his death in the American Civil War.
Letter to Fanny McCullough | Introduction
At that time, Nancy went to live for an unspecified period of time with her mother who was now Lucy Hanks Sparrow, having married Henry Sparrow in Harrodsburg, Kentucky two or three years earlier. Then, in 1796, after her aunt Elizabeth married Thomas Sparrow, Nancy went to live with the newly married couple and called them "mother" and "father". The Sparrows are said to have been neighbors of John Berry.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | Joseph and Ann Hanks
His oldest brother Jack was born in 1906, and a sister Bess in 1910; brothers Susman and Solly Margolis changed their names to Cecil Margolis and Sidney Margolis respectively; only Abraham changed his whole name. His mother Masha had two brothers Ben and Morris Kopelolt who had also come to London as refugees. When his parents both died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, his uncle’s families took the boys in, and then sent them away to school. Abraham was put up for adoption by a cobbler, Pinchas Slaberdain, and his wife Eva at 154 Oxford Street, Commercial Road, Stepney.
Arthur Seldon | Biography
She sat with her husband watching the comic play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre. During the third act, the President and Mrs. Lincoln drew closer together, holding hands while enjoying the play. Mary whispered to her husband, who was holding her hand, "What will Miss Harris think of my hanging on to you so?" The president smiled and replied, "She won't think anything about it". That was the last conversation the Lincolns ever had. Five minutes later, at about 10:15 pm, President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. She was holding Abraham's hand when Booth's bullet struck the back of his head.
Mary Todd Lincoln | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Upon returning to the United States, Angelica assumed the duties of "White House Hostess" because her mother-in-law had died after only twelve years of marriage in 1819. Their first-born, Rebecca, was born in March 1840; however, she died in the White House only months later. The couple later had three more children. He died March 15, 1873, and is buried alongside his wife in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
Abraham Van Buren | Personal life
In August 1826, Sarah Lincoln married Aaron Grigsby (1801–1831). She died on January 20, 1828 while giving birth to a stillborn boy, subsequently named George. Her brother Abraham blamed the death of his sister on the failure of Grigsby to send for a doctor. She was buried in a small cemetery next to the Little Pigeon Baptist Church, a Primitive Baptist Church attended by the Lincoln family and where her father Thomas was a trustee. The church and Sarah's grave site are located within what was the Little Pigeon Creek Community and is now Lincoln State Park in Indiana.
Sarah Lincoln Grigsby | Marriage and family
The ship's manifest for his arrival in the United States in 1899 likely gives the more accurate birth date of 1888, as it was provided by his mother on entry to the United States when Abe was 11. Abe's mother Celia, raised by a religious leader, created strong Old Testament values in Abe that were reflected in the moral tone of much of his autobiography. Celia's father, Mowza (Moses) Finkielsztejn, was a "Podskolnik", a part-time temple leader who could fill in as a Rabbi or teach Hebrew. Pogroms, famine, restrictions on career opportunities, the inability to own or purchase property, and highly limited access to public secondary education caused by Tsar Alexander III's May Laws of 1882, encouraged the family to leave Russia.
Abraham Jacob Hollandersky | Early life
Samuel’s father Edward Lincoln was born about 1575 and remained in Hingham, Norfolk, England. He died on February 11, 1640 and was buried in the graveyard of St Andrew's Church. Edward was the only son of Richard Lincoln (buried 1620) and Elizabeth Remching. After the death of his wife, Richard married three more times.
Lincoln family | Roots in England
Biographers have rejected numerous rumors about Lincoln's paternity. According to historian William E. Barton, one of these rumors began circulating in 1861 "in various forms in several sections of the South" that Lincoln's biological father was Abraham Enloe, a resident of Rutherford County, North Carolina, who died in that same year. However, Barton dismissed the rumors as "false from beginning to end." Enloe publicly denied his connection to Lincoln, but is reported to have privately confirmed it. The Bostic Lincoln Center in Bostic, North Carolina, also claims that Abraham Lincoln was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and argues the case that Nancy Hanks had an illegitimate child while she was working for the Enlow family.
Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln | Unproven rumors
Julia Taft was born on March 4, 1845, in Lyons, New York, to Horatio Nelson Taft, an attorney and examiner in the U.S. Patent Office, and his wife. The family lived in Washington D.C. when Julia was a child and young woman. As the young sons of President Abraham Lincoln had no playmates at the White House, the First Lady Mary Lincoln asked Mrs. Taft if she had children who might come to see them. Mrs. Taft asked her daughter Julia to take 14-year-old Horatio Nelson Jr., or Bud, and 11-year-old Halsey Cook Taft, called Holly, with her to the White House to play with the Lincoln boys.
Julia Taft Bayne | Early life and education
On Thursday, February 20, 1862, at 5:00 p.m., Lincoln's eleven-year-old son, William Wallace Lincoln ("Willie"), died at the White House. Historians suggest that this may have been the most difficult personal crisis in Lincoln's life. After the funeral, he attempted a return to his routine but was unable. One week after the funeral, he isolated himself in his office and wept all day. Several people reported that Lincoln told them that his feelings about religion changed at this time. Willie is reported to have often remarked that he wanted to become a minister. When his son died, Lincoln reportedly said, "May God live in all.
Religious views of Abraham Lincoln | 1862: Bereavement and Emancipation
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a one-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln, an Englishman who migrated from Hingham, Norfolk, to its namesake, Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638. The family then migrated west, passing through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Lincoln's paternal grandparents, his namesake Captain Abraham Lincoln and wife Bathsheba (née Herring), moved the family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky. The captain was killed in an Indian raid in 1786. His children, including eight-year-old Thomas, Abraham's father, witnessed the attack.
Abraham Lincoln | Early life
The Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln biography by the National Park Service summarizes the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his stepmother: Lincoln's legendary sense of humor was probably influenced by his stepmother. He recalled that she was a firm but kind-hearted woman who loved to laugh. When he was 18 years old, Lincoln, at 6' 4", was so tall that his head nearly touched the ceiling of the family's farmhouse kitchen. His stepmother repeatedly joked that Lincoln was so tall that he needed to keep his hair washed or he'd leave prints on her ceiling. Lincoln decided to have some fun with this idea.
Sarah Bush Lincoln | Abraham and Sarah's relationship
Her brother, Isaac (1779–1827), sold Thomas Lincoln the Sinking Stream Farm.
Sarah Bush Lincoln | Early life
Abraham married twice. In 1868, he married Isabella Hyams; she died in 1875. In 1882, he married Rose Epstein; they remained married until his death. He had four children with his first wife: His many notable descendants include grandson Donald B. Straus (son of his daughter Edith), an educator, author, and advisor; great-great-granddaughter Nina Rothschild Utne, a magazine publisher; great-great-grandson Peter A. Bradford, civil servant and nuclear power expert, and great-great-great-grandson Arthur Bradford, an author and director. Abraham died on Cherry Island, near Alexandria Bay, New York.
Abraham Abraham | Personal life
Mary Todd Lincoln corresponded with Myra and James Bradwell, Myra Pritchard's grandparents in the 1870s, before, during, and after her brief confinement to an insane asylum. The letters were said to reflect Mrs. Lincoln's distressed mental state and her disapproval of her son Robert Todd Lincoln. The letters from Mrs. Lincoln to the Bradwells were left to Bradwell's daughter, Bessie Helmer, and then to Bessie's daughter, Myra Pritchard. "My mother was most anxious that these letters be published," explained Pritchard, "because she felt that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln had been maligned and that these letters would explain much of the real Mrs.
Myra Bradwell Helmer Pritchard | The Lincoln-Bradwell letters
The National Lincoln Monument Association began again to stoke the fires of creating the grand tomb for Lincoln at the Mather Block. Mary Lincoln threatened to have her husband's remains taken to Chicago or Washington for permanent burial. "My determination is unalterable," she wrote on June 10 and demanded a formal promise that "the immortal Savior and Martyr for Freedom" would be at Oak Ridge, and imposed a deadline of June 15 before she would make good on her threat. The association voted, on the evening before the deadline, by the narrowest of margins, 8-7, to accept her demands. Oak Ridge Cemetery became the site of the Lincoln Tomb.
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln | Mary Lincoln's choice: Oak Ridge Cemetery
Lincoln's parents were "Hard Shell" Baptists, joining the Little Pigeon Baptist Church near Lincoln City, Indiana, in 1823 when Abraham was 14 years old. In 1831, Lincoln moved to New Salem, which had no churches. However, historian Mark Noll states that "Lincoln never joined a church nor ever made a clear profession of standard Christian belief." Noll quotes Lincoln's friend Jesse Fell: Noll argues Lincoln was turned against organized Christianity by his experiences as a young man witnessing how excessive emotion and bitter sectarian quarrels marked yearly camp meetings and the ministry of traveling preachers. As a young man, Lincoln enjoyed reading the works of deists such as Thomas Paine.
Religious views of Abraham Lincoln | Early years
Abraham's law partner William Herndon reported that Abraham told him that Nancy's father was "a well-bred Virginia farmer or planter." Lincoln is quoted as saying: "I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | Unknown family of well-bred farmer
Schermerhorn was married to Mary Kent Adams (1798–1865). Together, they were the parents of: In 1855, he died in Savin Rock, near West Haven, Connecticut. He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester.
Abraham M. Schermerhorn | Personal life
In 1930, four years after Robert's death, Mary Harlan Lincoln had her son’s body moved to lie beside his father's in Arlington National Cemetery.
Abraham Lincoln II | Death
His mother was Cora Jane Brown and his father was Samuel David Johnson.
Gilbert H. Johnson | Family
Sarah Lincoln was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln in 1807. After their mother's death in 1818, Sarah was in charge of taking care of the house, her brother Abraham and their cousin Dennis Hanks, who was living with them. Thomas remarried in 1819 to Sarah Bush Johnston, and then brought wife Sarah home to be a stepmother to children, Sarah, Abe, and cousin, Dennis.
Sarah Lincoln Grigsby | Early life
He drafted a pamphlet incorporating such ideas but did not publish it. After charges of hostility to Christianity almost cost him a congressional bid, he kept his unorthodox beliefs private. The one aspect of his parents' Calvinist religion that Lincoln apparently embraced wholeheartedly throughout his life was the "doctrine of necessity", also known as predestination, determinism, or fatalism. It was almost always through these lenses that Lincoln assessed the meaning of the Civil War.
Religious views of Abraham Lincoln | Early years
J. Virginia Lincoln was born on September 7, 1915, in Ames, Iowa. Her brother, Rush B. Lincoln Jr. became a Major General in the US Army. Their parents were Rush B. Lincoln and Jeannette Bartholomew Lincoln. Her father was a Major General in the US Army Air Forces. Lincoln's mother taught Chemistry at Iowa State University. Their grandfather Lincoln fought in the Civil War as a Confederate Captain. Lincoln was unsurprisingly deep into her family's military life and continued with this throughout her life. In 1936 she received a bachelor's degree in physics from Wellesley College and a master's degree from Iowa State University in 1938.
J. Virginia Lincoln | Early life
According to Louis Warren, whose research has been lauded but his findings have been disputed by modern historians, particularly "his interpretation of facts": Nancy Hanks came to live with the Rachel Shipley and Richard Berry family after her mother married (after 1790). During her time with the Berrys she befriended neighbor Thomas Lincoln. She later [unspecified time] came to live with the Richard Berry, Jr. family. Warren further states that: In 1795 sixteen-year-old Sarah Mitchell was sent to live with her maternal aunt Rachel Shipley Berry. She was freed from Native Americans who she lived with since her mother Naomi Shipley Mitchell was killed at an ambush at a place called Defeated.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage | After Joseph Hanks dies in 1793
One day in May 1786, Abraham Lincoln was working in his field with his three sons when he was shot from the nearby forest and fell to the ground. The eldest boy, Mordecai, ran to the cabin where a loaded gun was kept, while the middle son, Josiah, ran to Hughes' Station for help. Thomas, the youngest, stood in shock by his father. From the cabin, Mordecai observed a Native American come out of the forest and stop by his father's body. The Native American reached for Thomas, either to kill him or to carry him off. Mordecai took aim and shot the Indian in the chest, killing him.
Abraham Lincoln (captain) | Death
Guelzo argues that Lincoln's boyhood inculcation of Calvinism was the dominant thread running through his adult life. He characterizes Lincoln's worldview as a kind of "Calvinized Deism". A Bible that belonged to President Abraham Lincoln resurfaced 150 years after his death. The Bible was gifted to President Lincoln by the Citizens Volunteer Hospital of Philadelphia on June 16, 1864. It was then passed on to his neighbor Rev. Noyes W. Miner by the first lady Mary Lincoln on October 15, 1872. Miner's family has passed the keepsake down from generation to generation and recently donated the Bible for the public to see.
Religious views of Abraham Lincoln | Modern views
Shortly after Lincoln's death, a delegation of Illinois citizens (later forming the National Lincoln Monument Association) asked Mrs. Lincoln to return her husband's remains to Springfield for burial. She agreed, and the group then researched various sites in and around Springfield, selecting a centrally located, hilltop site known as Mather Block, and a temporary receiving vault was built there. However, Mrs. Lincoln selected Oak Ridge Cemetery for her husband's burial. Despite repeated attempts by the association to change the location of the burial to Mather Block, she remained firm in her decision.
Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln | Burial site selection
In a letter held by The Raab Collection dated February 4, 1866, William Herndon wrote that: Mr. Lincoln's religion is too well known to me to allow of even a shadow of a doubt; he is or was a Theist & a Rationalist, denying all extraordinary - supernatural inspiration or revelation. At one time in his life, he was an elevated Pantheist, doubting the immortality of the soul as the Christian world understands that term. He believed that the soul lost its identity and was immortal as a force. Subsequent to this he rose to the belief of a God, and this is all the change he ever underwent.
Religious views of Abraham Lincoln | 1866
Later in 1856 Felt married his third and last wife, Mary Louisa Pile. He was the father of 17 children. In 1858 Felt received a contract to supply grain to Camp Floyd. He set up a grain distribution system with locations in Salt Lake City, Nephi, Utah and Ephraim, Utah. When President Abraham Lincoln died, Felt served on a committee to honor the president's life. Soon thereafter when the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Schuyler Colfax, visited Salt Lake City with Massachusetts gadfly reporter Samuel Bowles, Nathaniel H. Felt was one of their hosts. Of Felt it was written, "Perhaps the most refined man of our hosts in personal appearance and manners was a Mr.
Nathaniel H. Felt | Later life
Sarah Lincoln Grigsby (February 10, 1807 – January 20, 1828) was the older sister of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and cared for him when they were young.
Sarah Lincoln Grigsby | Introduction
In his later years Weichmann moved to Anderson, Indiana, where he opened a business school. One of his brothers, a Catholic priest, and two of his sisters had moved and settled there. Because of some lingering doubt as to the truth and motives of his testimony, Weichmann became a controversial and somewhat ostracized figure by many people. That Mary Surratt was the first woman tried and executed for a capital crime by the federal government caused a backlash against him. There also were strong anti-Catholic elements that attempted to link Lincoln's death to a Catholic conspiracy. Partially because of this, he swore out an affidavit, shortly before his death, reaffirming that all his testimony concerning Abraham Lincoln's assassination was completely true.
Louis J. Weichmann | Later life