The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1907-02-14

Ahfatsm linroia
eusage of Lincoln. they DO not. %
course, clear 30 tha shadow which
hangs over the parentags II hls mo-
thsf. Is there anything % Show thai
Nancy Hanks herself was Of a clear
and llneage a. her husbandY Ther
has oten nothing whatever until
thirty years ago. tho the efforts of
Mrs Caroline Hanks Hitchcock ~
Cambridge, Mas. who had IN prepar.
atlon the genealogy of the Hanks fam.
ily Ia America, i attle volume aas
Published, showing what size bad -
tabllsiled ia REGARD 20 Nancy Hanks
Mrs Hitehcoek has began 81 The FAR
end az tie line lbe arrival % one
lieaiamin uanss IN Massachusetts ~
l0a
She discovered that ane.oi bis sons
William, moved 70 Virginia. aud that
Ia the latter part q the eighteenth
century hisehlidrtn formed ii Amelia
County d thar state a large settle.
uent. All the records d these families
she found 10 TIE Hal q Records Ia
Richmond When the migration inio
Kantaegi began late IL the century.
Il vas Joined by many members Of TIE
Hanks settlement Ia Amelia County
Among Others togo vas Joseph Hanks
and his wife, Nancg shipler Hanks.
and tiieif children. ars Hitchcock
traced this Joseph Hanks, ~ masns
OF land records. 70 Nelson County
Kentucky. where she found thar he
had died ii TVS. leaving bcnlni a viil
which she discovered IL The records 81
Ranisi0uu. Keniucss This slll show
thai Al lie tine of his death Jozash
Tanks had eight llxlns rlnldfen. to|
whom he beQueafhea property Tie
youngest af These uas Ny daughter
Naass 2s thsf sll pat It.
afs Iiitcliceeks erst query. "a
rea lla< fgsls VII wass agan # b that
this little elf She Nss but nlne yeas
Cd ~hsu her father died -s the
Naacs llaaks elso sixteen l4ssrs later
oeeame tie mother of Abraham lin.
cilaY Size IS determined lo 6nd oaE
.he safuaa frem rrlallots Aad friends
6i Iils ssmllg u ipsspA lianks sill
lisIag thai sooa after hef father
death, Eaiey Neuf g lits with n
nur.e. Rleiari HsfrY. sbo,fha records
slleNea. lnt esms inm vlsglna to
keafUcsx IS tie same ssue that 4as
eph llanzs came. A little further re-
seaeclt aad aFs fl.lcheoek found
that there had bsen brought 60 lskht
thf aah tie efforts of friends q AhfA.
bam LinealR ali tila documents "a sla4R
thai n lss Nancy llaaks ard Thamss
Lincoln eefc married AZ hsschlaad,
keatackY. Nos. one 81 tHfse deeu.
muhts Wa 4 marriage bond II w9s
signed b Richard tefF4. the uncle 81
the iittle SRI recognized Ia tie vii oi
Joseph Hanks. Here. then. vas fhc
chain complete. The marriage hond
and marriage returns not onIy shn9ad
that Nancy lianks and-rhemas lin
colu were magrled regularly three
years before tha birth Of Abraham
Lincoln, thus sstfing forever a. real
the atoFY.ni Lineolp's lilegltlmacy. hul
lhey showed thai this Nancy Hank
was the one named IL TIE slll Tn
suspIeion n regard = the origin d
i.lncoln's mother was removed b. Ehh
discovery of TIE viii. tur tn recognl
tlon Of so one e his child b : aal
Ia is vii Is considered bY he lau a
suficleut proof Of paternity.
Sow shat sort IT people zen
Themas Lincoln and Naney Hanks
] Il has been Inferred ~ those m
have mads no investigation q THpm
Ae Llncoln's llfs thar Nane7 Hank
madn q very paar ch0Ine Of husband
TIE facts do nof on1IEely.uarmnt nj
lhz8fy. Thomas Lincoln lad heeI
ioTesd fEam h|s hoYhaod e shift "a
himself = foang and uadspelepe
uoantfH He + kuoun 10 aase h@an
nan wha II aplEe q thIa HandaEln
] life contacted 50 h4d haHIlA Il
vs. lemnsIafs spd hsnezE. an h|
naae + Eseoraza "a nols fhan 81