The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-05-26

a little volume entitled 1.-The Genesis
Of Abraham Lincoln 1t is carefully
ard ~afectIonately written by James
H. Cathey, of Western North Caro-
ina, and its unprecedented perusal will
convince any man that Abaham Lin
coin was the SCI Of Abraham Enloe,
and that Nancy Hanks was a good or
phan girl who served in Enloe's fam
lily. The afidaeits and other evidences
establish this beyond dispute. Ola
Father Abraham Enloe was y cacond
Abraham and poor Nancy Hanks q
second Hager and for the same reason
she was sent away from the paternal
homestead to keep peace in the fam
lily. The father of her child had great
regard for her End placed her with his
relatives in Kentucky, where she af-
forwards married Thomas Lincoln.
Some of the witnesses to these facts
are now ninety years old and have
passed all desire to deceive anybody.
The descendants OF this Enloe family
are numerous and their testimony has
been taken from North Carolina, Mis-
souri, and Texas, and al confirm the
story. All the very old people in
North Carolina were familiar with the
girl Nancy Hanks AID the Enloe fam
lily and Old man En.oc's acknowledge
ment Of tue chila's paternity and why
be sent It's modern Hager and her
lsmael away.
But tLis is no new thing. During
the war 1t was talked OF in the army
and Lincoln Was denounced by the en-
tire To3d family, into which he mar
ned. Fifteen years ago. while [ 60
]ourncd III Western North Carolina, I
found the story current that Abraham
Lincoln Was the sou Of abraham En-
lOe and VAS nuned Tor him 10y his
mother. Nancy Hanks. Now, Mr..
Cathey writes a pretty little book
about it and his excuse is thai the
truth cannos hurt the living or the
dead; that Abraham Lincoln was
Americas most remarkable man, and
there should be no attempt to clond
the life Of a real hero. Cicero saws
that the first law of history is that it
should neither are to say anything
that is false nor fear to Say ANYTHING
Vbht 10 u
1t ls, therefore, the sole purpose of
this little book to prove that thi won
derful mao was not without ancestors.
His mother was Nancy Hanks. If he
was the son of a worthy sire the world
is entitled to know who that sire was,
whence he came and what his charac-
ter'stics. The custo1ians of this history
Of Abraham Lincoln are numbered bv
scores and hundreds of the first people
and women Of western North
Carolina, for the Enloes were a large
and Influential family and their descen-
daDts have intermarried with many
distinguished people. But I do not
propose to review the book. It is an
Interesting and remarkable revelation.
and IS written by an enthusiastic al
mirer Of Mr.. Lincoln, and established
beyond question his paternity. Abra-
ham Enloe was himself an eXtraordi-
nary man-the father OF thirteen chill
dren; aud his photo "a hic likeness to
this particular son Is very striking,
both in form. and feature. Both were
the same height and had the same long,
unshapely limbs.
This little hook Of IT'S pages was
written by James r. Cathey, Of Bryson
City. N. c., and is kind in motive and
classic in style. I thought when first
opened it that perhaps it bad better
not have been written, but on it's pc
rusal l believe that it is better for the
whole truth to be told than that this
remarkable mans gensis should con
tiuue to be uncertain and unknown.
l am now trying to solve another
problem: the problem Of how best to
daatroY the nntafn hug or beetle Last