Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1900 — PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COUSIN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COUSIN.

Lives in Pennsylvania and Bean the Same Name aa the Martyr. In Churchtown. Lancaster County. Pa., a cousin of President I-ineoln still lives. He is also named Abraham Lincoln and

is now 90 years old. In general appearance he is not unlike his distinguished relative, having the same large, erect, gaunt form and high cheek bones. Mr. Lincoln is a farmer and owns an estate. White Hall, near the Berks County

line. He never saw President Lincoln, but he corresponded with him when the latter was ia the White House. In the same region of Pennsylvania, a few miles from Reading, is the ancient home of the forefathers of President Lincoln. The house was built by Mordeeai Lincoln 100 years ago and is still well preserved. Not far distant is the house in which Daniel Boone was born. Living within hailing distance of these two places, before both the Lincolns and Boones moved southward to Virginia and thence to Kentucky, where the future President was boro, was the Hanks family. from which sprang Nancy Hanks, the mother of the President. In 1750. at the same time when the Boones and the Hank*es set off from the same neighborhood for the South.

Mordeeai Lincoln's son John moved with his family to the Shenandoah valley. Rockingham County. Va. From there his son Abraham removed into Kentucky in 1782. and was killed by the Indians, leaving three sons, of whom Thomas, the youngest, was father of the President. Nancy Hanks, the wife of Thomas Lincoln. and the mother of the President, was a descendant, a granddaughter. of that John Hanks who left Berks County in 1750.

A. LINCOLN.

ANCIENT HOME OF THE LINCOLNS.