Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — HOME OF ABE'S ANCESTORS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME OF ABE'S ANCESTORS.

Old lloiiar still Stands In Raster Township, Near llradinici Pa. In tho Lincoln exorcises in the schools of Rending, I’n., the fact wus prominently brought out that the ancestry of President Lincoln, tiefore their emigration to Virginia nnd then Kentucky, lived in Berks County, and that tho ancestral home still stands in Exeter township, eight miles below Heading. Here Mor4ocai Lincoln, great great-grandfather of

the President, settled about 1725, and built a stone house, which tho ravages of a century and three-quarters hare not destroyed. He had a son named Mordecal. sod the latter had s son named Abraham, who became prominent in ths affairs of Berks County during revolutlon-

ary war time*. Another son of Morflocai, Jr., John, settled in Virginia. The latter had a son Abraham, who was the father of Thomas Lincoln, father of President Lincoln. Numerous Lincolns still reside in that section, and the old home in Exeter of the progenitor of the greatest of American Presidents, is an object of interest to many.—Philadelphia Ledger.

HOME OF LINCOLN'S ANCKSTORS.