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The Lincoln family is an American family of English origins. It includes the fourth United States Attorney General, Levi Lincoln Sr., governors Levi Lincoln Jr. (of Massachusetts) and Enoch Lincoln (of Maine), and Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States. There were ten known descendants of Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) Thomas Lincoln. Nancy Hanks. Yes: Yes: Yes: Samuel Lincoln (4th great-grandfather) Hingham, England → Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony (1638) [7] [8] [17] 17 Andrew Johnson (1808–1875) Jacob Johnson. Mary McDonough Yes: Yes: Yes: Yes: Edward Johnston (2nd great-grandfather) Aberdeen, Scotland → New Kent ...
L. Lincoln Homestead and Cemetery; Lincoln Homestead State Park; Mary Todd Lincoln House; Abraham Lincoln (captain) Edward Baker Lincoln; Enoch Lincoln; Gatewood Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. [2] He was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln , an Englishman who migrated from Hingham, Norfolk , to its namesake, Hingham, Massachusetts , in 1638.
His grandson, Abraham's cousin, John Hanks, lived in the Thomas Lincoln household, took a raft trip with Abraham down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and encouraged the Thomas, Sarah and Abraham family and Dennis Hanks to move to Illinois. He was also his "rail splitting" partner, which became a focus for Lincoln's presidential campaign.
Mordecai Lincoln (1771 – 1830) was an uncle of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. He was the eldest son of Captain Abraham Lincoln, a brother of Thomas Lincoln and Mary Lincoln Crume, and the husband of Mary Mudd. He is buried at the Old Catholic or Lincoln Cemetery near Fountain Green, Illinois.
John Lincoln gave 210 acres of prime Virginia land to his first son, Captain Abraham Lincoln (1744–1786), [5] [7] a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.In 1770, Abraham married Bathsheba Herring (c. 1742–1836), who was born in Rockingham County, Virginia.
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.