The Washington times., 1923-02-04
Genealogist Finds Lucy Hanks
RightfuI Ancestress Of
Emanicipator.
COPIES MARRIAGE BOND
Discovers Hundreds Of Un-
known Cousins of Mar j
tyred President.

Universal Service.
CHICAGO, Feb. 3. Abraham
Lincoln's family tree. as it had
been devised by earlier biographers,
was shattered today.
After years Of research, DR.. VII
liam e. Barton, noted Lincoln
student, has revealed discoveries of
the paternal and maternal grand
mothers, whose identities has been
clouded, he said.
"All the Biographies OF Abraham
Lincoln are incorrect as to his
paternal grandmother" DIR. Barton
declared today in an address be.
fore the Chicago Historical Society.
She was not Mary Shipley,. as
Nicolay and Hay, on the authority
OF j. r. Hall. have told US: nor
was she Of the Boone family, al
Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary
of War, maintained"
FOUND IN OLD RECORDS.
The wife Of the pioneer Abraham
Lincoln. grandfather Of the mar.
tyred President, was Bathseba Her
ring, mother Of Thomas Lincoln,
according to DIR. Barton.
DE-. Barton discovered in the rec
ords OF Buckingham county, Vir-
g1nia, where the pioneer Abraham,
Lincoln lived. that it was Bathseba
Linoln who signed the deed when
the farm was sold and the family
removed to Kentucky.
1T had been supposed that Bath
seba was a second wife, Mary
Shfpley being the first" DR.. Barton
said. Then when It was found
that this could not be, It was sup
posed that Bathseba died in 1871
and Abraham married Mary ShipIey
as his second wife.
Last summer. in q pile of tax
lists in the old capitol at Frank
fort, KY, a list Of WASHINGTON
county for the year 1898 was found.
This list shows that Rathseba Lin
coin survived her husband, who
was murdered by Indians.
"Bathseba long survived the
Presidents grandfather. whom she
in Buckingham county, Vir-
GINA. in ITO. : She was the
mother Of all his children. his one
and only wife"
FINDS LUCY HANKS.
The even more moot question sur
rounding the identity Of the en1an-
cipator's maternal grandmother, DIR.
Barton said. has been cleared.
Mrs. Lincoln's mother was named
Lucy Hanks. Her sisters were
Betty. Polly and Nancy, who mar.
ried Thomas Sparrow, Jesse Friend
and Levi Hail." these earlier bog
raphers assert.
DR.. Barton gave detailed analysis
of the evidence preserved in the
Hanks family. and declared there
must have been an older daughter,
married and away from home, when
Joseph Hanks, their father. made his
will. The three daughters mention
ed in the earlier biographies each
received heifer In the viii.
In an obscure corner Of Ken
lucky. however" DR.. Barton reveal
ed today. 81 found literally hundreds
of descendants Of President Lin
coins grandmother, including some
first cousins of Abraham Lincoln.
These persons have never been
interviewed, but everyone Of them
know themselves to be related to
Abraham Lincoln and they know
how. Their family Bibles, after q
A0AA u I4I1Oe every
disputed point"
COPIES NUPTIAL BONDS.
DIR. Barton has obtained photostat
copies of the marriage bonds Of the
original Sparrows family, including
the marriage of Thomas Sparrows,
not to Elizabeth Shipley, who he
says, appears never to have existed,
but to Elizabeth Hanks.
And they" he continued, were
not the parents Of Dennis Hanks,
whose mother was the Nancy
in the will Of Joseph Hanks
"As for Lucy, I have her mar.
r1age bond in photostat, and a GER
tificate Of her legal marriage.
She was married to Henry
Sparrow, a revolutionary soldier
and an honest man, and she
brought up her children we'll, in
GLIDING two ministers Of the gos-
pei.
"Thus do we restore to her
rightful place in the line of the
Presidents ancestors, Lucy Hanks,
Abraham Lincoln's lost maternal