Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-23


mond, Va, showing that he sold lands to ms
brother, Abraham, and in 1854 bought the land
upon which he settled, and where his children
were born, including Nancy, the youngest child
named for her mother
His wife, Nancy Shipey, was the daughter OF
Robert Shipley and wife, Sarah Rachael, who came
to Virginia and bought land, A. D. 1865, in Lun-
enburg county, adjoining Amelia county
They had five daughters The eldest Mary, mar
ried Abraham Lincoln, of Rockingham county
Va, and was the mother of Thomas Lincoln; Lucy
married Richard Berry. Sarah married Robert
Mitchell, Elizabeth married Thomas Sparrow, and
Nancy who married Joseph Hanks and had eight
children, the youngest Nancy, born Feb. s, 1884,
who married her cousin, Thomas Lincoln
OF the Shipleys in England Rev. Jonathan Ship
ley, D. d., Bishop of st. Asaph, was son of
Jonathan Shipley of Leeds and wife, Martha,
daughter of William Davies of Tryford House,
Hants. He married Anna Maria daughter and CO.
heir of Hon. Rev. George Mordaunt of the
Viscount of Avalon.
These families, into which the Shpley sisters
married, owned large tracts of land in Amelia
county, and according to the records, the four
Hanks brothers owned about one thousand acres
which were sold in 1889, when this whole colony
decided to emigrate to Kentucky.
The records show that the Hanks family had
large iron industries in Massachusetts and cast in
their foundries the first bells made in America
The bell which replaced the old Liberty Bell in
Philadelphia was made by them, bearing the same
inscription as the original bell, proclaim Liberty
throughout all the land and unto all the inhab-
1tdntS tnereOI. A Significant IdcJ, TAKEN III COLI
nection with the circumstance is that within a
short time thereafter born son of that
household, who became President of the United
States and did proclaim Liberty to all mankind,
saying, Upon this act, l invoke the blessing of
Almighty God, and the considerate judgment of
all mankind"
The great Columbian Liberty Bell at the Chicago
Fair, 1908, also the work Of their hands. 1t
weighed $4,000 pounds to represent the thirteen
original states. On that bell was this inscription:
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace,
good will towards men," proclaim Liberty
throughout all the land and unto all of the nhab-
itants thereof" "a new commandment give unto
you, that We love one another"
There is an interesting tradition in the Hanks
family that their origin is even more ancient than
that of "the Malmesbury men," This historic
place is situated very to the wonderful ruins
of Stonehenge supposed to have been OF Egyptian
workmanship The name Ank is an Egyptian
word, sgnifying soul, and the change into Hanks
was both easy and natural in those days of early
English" This tradition is significant and full
of interest to the student of history and the races
The builders of Stonehenge are supposed by
MANY to have been descendants OF Abraham
through Ishmae whose mother Hagar, was an
Egyptian woman and took for her son, Ishmael
wife out of Egypt: through Isaac whose son Esau
went down into Egypt and married daughter of
his uncle Ishmael who held promise from God
made to both Abraham and Hagar that he should
become great nation-the father OF twelve princes
and his descendants 'reigned in the land OF Edom
before there reigned any kings over the children
of Israel"
In answer to Esau's agonized prayer to his
father Isaac for a blessing-even though his bless
ing, the first born had been given TO ms prother
Jacob-he promised, "A time snail come to
pass when thou shalt have dominion that thou
shalt break his (Jacobs) yoke from OF thy neck.
IT is now pretty we'll established that some of
the ancient Egyptian dynastles were descendants
of Abraham through Ishmael and Esau: and that
Rameses II, surnamed "The Great,"-the Pharaoh
who knew not Joseph"-was a descendant of
Esau 1t was he who oppressed the children OF
OF hic Mnnn thn