--part1_90.311f75db.2b5c6a2d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_90.311f75db.2b5c6a2d_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <alby6@juno.com> Received: from rly-xj04.mx.aol.com (rly-xj04.mail.aol.com [172.20.116.41]) by air-xj01.mail.aol.com (v90.10) with ESMTP id MAILINXJ13-0119150422; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:04:22 -0500 Received: from jumpjuno1.lax.untd.com (m09.lax.untd.com [64.136.30.72]) by rly-xj04.mx.aol.com (v90_r1.1) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXJ47-0119150403; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:04:03 -0500 Received: from cookie.juno.com by cookie.juno.com for <"yp77ExOYBsplvdOJJv3Qx24my8dfofY3yMRqcGjQsg2lMcSpKXYh7g=="> Received: (from alby6@juno.com) by m09.lax.untd.com (jqueuemail) id HNWPPP25; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:03:50 PST To: GreystokeB@aol.com Cc: ROWANROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 14:57:20 -0500 Subject: Re: [RowanRoots] Question Message-ID: <20030119.145754.-420829.2.alby6@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 5.0.33 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0,7,12,15,18-26 From: alby6@juno.com Dear Cookie, Gary Boyd Roberts' 1995 book, Ancestors of American Presidents, offers five possible fathers of Nancy Hanks. The matter is far from settled. She is believed to have been born in the early-mid 1780's and married in Kentucky in 1806. In that time frame the only records of children were usually Family Bible records or the baptismal records of a church or minister, if the child belonged to a family which belonged to a church which baptized infants. At some point her family, parents or other relatives, went to Kentucky. Families who were friends or relatives traveled together in those days. Perhaps some one very familiar with early Kentucky settlement might be able to find the travel group with which she came and thus learn the origins of the group and her probable parentage. On the other hand, there is the story that Abraham Lincoln was not the biological son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. If that were so, the above two paragraphs are not relevant. Since both possibilities involve western NC, Mecklenburg, Lincoln or Rutherford Counties, if not old Rowan, the matter may be of interest to the list. Agnes On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:35:23 EST GreystokeB@aol.com writes: > I heard recently that Ava Gardner, Tom Hanks, Mickey Gilley, > Jimmy Swaggert, and Jerry Lee Lewis are all related to Abraham > Lincoln through his mother, Nancy Hanks. > Can anyone confirm this? > Cookie, a Hoosier in Florida > << GreystokeB@aol.com >> ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com --part1_90.311f75db.2b5c6a2d_boundary--