Lincoln County advocate., February 14, 1877
Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.])
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President Lincoln's Ancestry.
Hon. Gideon Welles contributed to the January number of the Galaxy an
article on the administration of Abraham Lincoln, which contains some interesting and hitherto unpublished information about Lincoln's ancestry. This was a subject of which Lincoln confessed his own ignorance. In 1875 there died in Bellefonte, Pa., a Mrs. Lucy Potter, who was a great-aunt of President Lincoln. Her father, William Winters, was born in 1728 and died in 1794. He emigrated from
Berks county, Pa., to Northumberland, now Lycoming county, in 1728. He
had by two wives nineteen children, and there was an interval of forty-two years between the birth of the oldest and that of the youngest. His first wife, whom he married in 1747 in the then province of Virginia, was Ann Boone, a sister of Col. Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky pioneer. By her he had four sons and seven daughters. The eldest daughter, Hannah, married Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the President, in Rockingham county, Va, He emigrated to Kentucky from which state he made a visit to his father-in-law in Pennsylvania,
and when he returned took with him a brother-in-law, John Winters. Not long afterward Lincoln was killed, by the Indians, leaving a son six years old, who became the father of the President. Mr. William Winters married his second wife, Ellen Campbell, in 1774, and from this union were born three sons and five daughters, of whom Lucy, who died less than two years ago, was youngest. After the death of William Winters his widow was licensed to keep a "house of entertainment," where Williamsport now is. There she lived and reared her own large family and several of her stepchildren. Her daughters seem to have been very fortunate in their marriages. The husbands of two of them became Justices of the Supreme Court of the state, and Lucy, the youngest,
was the wife of W. W.. Potter, who died while a member of Congress in
1838. She survived him thirty-seven years, continuing a widow. What is
new in these facts is the connection of the Winters family with the Lincoln's, which was not known to the President. Mr. Welles says that he has no doubt of the authenticity of the relation, and that the President's ancestry in this country, paternal and maternal- Lincoln, Boone and Winters, is to be traced to the county of Berks, in Pennsylvania.
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Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.])
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President Lincoln's Ancestry.
Hon. Gideon Welles contributed to the January number of the Galaxy an
article on the administration of Abraham Lincoln, which contains some interesting and hitherto unpublished information about Lincoln's ancestry. This was a subject of which Lincoln confessed his own ignorance. In 1875 there died in Bellefonte, Pa., a Mrs. Lucy Potter, who was a great-aunt of President Lincoln. Her father, William Winters, was born in 1728 and died in 1794. He emigrated from
Berks county, Pa., to Northumberland, now Lycoming county, in 1728. He
had by two wives nineteen children, and there was an interval of forty-two years between the birth of the oldest and that of the youngest. His first wife, whom he married in 1747 in the then province of Virginia, was Ann Boone, a sister of Col. Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky pioneer. By her he had four sons and seven daughters. The eldest daughter, Hannah, married Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the President, in Rockingham county, Va, He emigrated to Kentucky from which state he made a visit to his father-in-law in Pennsylvania,
and when he returned took with him a brother-in-law, John Winters. Not long afterward Lincoln was killed, by the Indians, leaving a son six years old, who became the father of the President. Mr. William Winters married his second wife, Ellen Campbell, in 1774, and from this union were born three sons and five daughters, of whom Lucy, who died less than two years ago, was youngest. After the death of William Winters his widow was licensed to keep a "house of entertainment," where Williamsport now is. There she lived and reared her own large family and several of her stepchildren. Her daughters seem to have been very fortunate in their marriages. The husbands of two of them became Justices of the Supreme Court of the state, and Lucy, the youngest,
was the wife of W. W.. Potter, who died while a member of Congress in
1838. She survived him thirty-seven years, continuing a widow. What is
new in these facts is the connection of the Winters family with the Lincoln's, which was not known to the President. Mr. Welles says that he has no doubt of the authenticity of the relation, and that the President's ancestry in this country, paternal and maternal- Lincoln, Boone and Winters, is to be traced to the county of Berks, in Pennsylvania.
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Lincoln County advocate., February 14, 1877
Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.])
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President Lincoln's Ancestry.
Hon. Gideon Welles contributed to the January number of the Galaxy an
article on the administration of Abraham Lincoln, which contains some interesting and hitherto unpublished information about Lincoln's ancestry. This was a subject of which Lincoln confessed his own ignorance. In 1875 there died in Bellefonte, Pa., a Mrs. Lucy Potter, who was a great-aunt of President Lincoln. Her father, William Winters, was born in 1728 and died in 1794. He emigrated from
Berks county, Pa., to Northumberland, now Lycoming county, in 1728. He
had by two wives nineteen children, and there was an interval of forty-two years between the birth of the oldest and that of the youngest. His first wife, whom he married in 1747 in the then province of Virginia, was Ann Boone, a sister of Col. Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky pioneer. By her he had four sons and seven daughters. The eldest daughter, Hannah, married Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the President, in Rockingham county, Va, He emigrated to Kentucky from which state he made a visit to his father-in-law in Pennsylvania,
and when he returned took with him a brother-in-law, John Winters. Not long afterward Lincoln was killed, by the Indians, leaving a son six years old, who became the father of the President. Mr. William Winters married his second wife, Ellen Campbell, in 1774, and from this union were born three sons and five daughters, of whom Lucy, who died less than two years ago, was youngest. After the death of William Winters his widow was licensed to keep a "house of entertainment," where Williamsport now is. There she lived and reared her own large family and several of her stepchildren. Her daughters seem to have been very fortunate in their marriages. The husbands of two of them became Justices of the Supreme Court of the state, and Lucy, the youngest,
was the wife of W. W.. Potter, who died while a member of Congress in
1838. She survived him thirty-seven years, continuing a widow. What is
new in these facts is the connection of the Winters family with the Lincoln's, which was not known to the President. Mr. Welles says that he has no doubt of the authenticity of the relation, and that the President's ancestry in this country, paternal and maternal- Lincoln, Boone and Winters, is to be traced to the county of Berks, in Pennsylvania.
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Info supplied by B.Helmer
Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.])
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President Lincoln's Ancestry.
Hon. Gideon Welles contributed to the January number of the Galaxy an
article on the administration of Abraham Lincoln, which contains some interesting and hitherto unpublished information about Lincoln's ancestry. This was a subject of which Lincoln confessed his own ignorance. In 1875 there died in Bellefonte, Pa., a Mrs. Lucy Potter, who was a great-aunt of President Lincoln. Her father, William Winters, was born in 1728 and died in 1794. He emigrated from
Berks county, Pa., to Northumberland, now Lycoming county, in 1728. He
had by two wives nineteen children, and there was an interval of forty-two years between the birth of the oldest and that of the youngest. His first wife, whom he married in 1747 in the then province of Virginia, was Ann Boone, a sister of Col. Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky pioneer. By her he had four sons and seven daughters. The eldest daughter, Hannah, married Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the President, in Rockingham county, Va, He emigrated to Kentucky from which state he made a visit to his father-in-law in Pennsylvania,
and when he returned took with him a brother-in-law, John Winters. Not long afterward Lincoln was killed, by the Indians, leaving a son six years old, who became the father of the President. Mr. William Winters married his second wife, Ellen Campbell, in 1774, and from this union were born three sons and five daughters, of whom Lucy, who died less than two years ago, was youngest. After the death of William Winters his widow was licensed to keep a "house of entertainment," where Williamsport now is. There she lived and reared her own large family and several of her stepchildren. Her daughters seem to have been very fortunate in their marriages. The husbands of two of them became Justices of the Supreme Court of the state, and Lucy, the youngest,
was the wife of W. W.. Potter, who died while a member of Congress in
1838. She survived him thirty-seven years, continuing a widow. What is
new in these facts is the connection of the Winters family with the Lincoln's, which was not known to the President. Mr. Welles says that he has no doubt of the authenticity of the relation, and that the President's ancestry in this country, paternal and maternal- Lincoln, Boone and Winters, is to be traced to the county of Berks, in Pennsylvania.
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