Here is # 3 of 4 newspaper articles (1st was Obit of Samuel Sutton) I found in my gg grandmother's trunk, Hannah Sutton Ellis. The funny thing about this article is that I have no idea how this Mrs. TC Sutton fits into my family. I also have not found a Abner Hanks being a brother to Nancy Hanks, Abe Lincoln's mother. If anyone can shed some light on this, please let me know. Emporia, Kansas, Tuesday, Feb abt 1828 IS RELATED TO LINCOLN Mrs. T. C. Sutton, 524 Rural, Is Lineal Descendant of Lincoln's Cousin. Mrs. T. C. Sutton, 524 Rural, is proud of the fact that her grandfather, Jeremiah Hanks, was a first cousin of Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Sutton's great-grandfather, Abner Hanks, and Nancy Hanks, Lincoln's mother, having been brother and sister. And, listening to Mrs. Sutton's stories of her girlhood and married life, it is plainly evident that she inherited a share of the fortitude and courage and endurance and faith of those early forbears. The Jeremiah Hanks branch of the family moved from Virginia to Ohio, instead of to Kentucky, as did the branch which became allied with the Lincoln family. In Muskingum County, Ohio, Sept 13, 1840, Eliza Starkey was born. Her mother died when she was 10 years old, and the little girl became mother and housekeeper for the family of seven children and their father. She never went to school again, but always she has been a voracious reader, and is self-educated - what old-fashioned persons term "well read". Nov, at 88, books and newspapers and magazines are her daily delight. She reads until her eyes tire, then her daughter Miss Emma Sutton, takes up the book and thus they spend many delightful and instructive hours. Eliza Starkey was married April 4, 1861, to T. C. Sutton, in Ohio. In 1864 they moved to Illinois and came to Kansas in 1885. They bought a farm seven miles northeast of Emporia-land which had been a claim preempted by the late Capt. L. T. Heritage. There family was a large one - 10 children, and for a few years a motherless granddaughter and her father were with them, so that every meal 13 members of the family sat down to the table. Mrs. Sutton baked 12 to 16 big loaves of bread every week, with biscuits in between. She used to declare she baked bread by the barrel- and so she did. She kept her bread in a small flour barrel, and her joke was literally true. The Suttons built a substantial house on their farm, with ample barns and other buildings, and made of it one of the most attractive and thrifty appearing farms in their neighborhood. After Mr. Sutton's death, Mrs. Sutton and her daughter, Emma, moved to Emporia. "We brought up 10 children," says Mrs. Sutton, "and partly an eleventh one, and my granddaughter, Linnie, was spanked when necessary, as were my own. They never got a spanking they didn't need, and spankings are good for them. I am proud of all my children, but they were bad at times, as all children are." The Suttons, hard working and always busy, never were too busy to go regularly to church and Sunday school. "And we took the children to Sunday school," says Mrs. Sutton. "We didn't send 'em." Of the 10 sons and daughter Charity, who was Mrs. George Gadbery, died in 1915. The others are Ira, National Military Home, Leavenworth; Grand, editor of the Moline (Kan.) Advance; Lewis, credit man of the Mercantile Company, Salina; Wilbur, a farmer living in the old home neighborhood; Onie Watson and Freedus, Emporia; Lora, Mrs. WR Brown, Erie Colo; Elsie, Mrs. Hugh Cowan, Topeka; and Miss Emma Sutton, Emporia. Mrs. Sutton has 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The Suttons have been members of the Bethel Methodist church during all of their 44 years' residence in Lyon County. - L. M. F.

I believe you Mrs T C Sutton is Eliza A Starkey w/o Thomas Cyrus Sutton who is s/o Samuel Sutton & Eva E Slack. We have this family on our web page at: www.bjhughes.org belinda melton hughes www.bjhughes.org -----Original Message----- From: Vihhges@aol.com [mailto:Vihhges@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 11:08 PM To: SUTTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SUTTON] #4 of 4 newspaper articles on Suttons - Abraham Lincoln Here is # 3 of 4 newspaper articles (1st was Obit of Samuel Sutton) I found in my gg grandmother's trunk, Hannah Sutton Ellis. The funny thing about this article is that I have no idea how this Mrs. TC Sutton fits into my family. I also have not found a Abner Hanks being a brother to Nancy Hanks, Abe Lincoln's mother. If anyone can shed some light on this, please let me know. Emporia, Kansas, Tuesday, Feb abt 1828 IS RELATED TO LINCOLN Mrs. T. C. Sutton, 524 Rural, Is Lineal Descendant of Lincoln's Cousin. Mrs. T. C. Sutton, 524 Rural, is proud of the fact that her grandfather, Jeremiah Hanks, was a first cousin of Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Sutton's great-grandfather, Abner Hanks, and Nancy Hanks, Lincoln's mother, having been brother and sister. And, listening to Mrs. Sutton's stories of her girlhood and married life, it is plainly evident that she inherited a share of the fortitude and courage and endurance and faith of those early forbears. The Jeremiah Hanks branch of the family moved from Virginia to Ohio, instead of to Kentucky, as did the branch which became allied with the Lincoln family. In Muskingum County, Ohio, Sept 13, 1840, Eliza Starkey was born. Her mother died when she was 10 years old, and the little girl became mother and housekeeper for the family of seven children and their father. She never went to school again, but always she has been a voracious reader, and is self-educated - what old-fashioned persons term "well read". Nov, at 88, books and newspapers and magazines are her daily delight. She reads until her eyes tire, then her daughter Miss Emma Sutton, takes up the book and thus they spend many delightful and instructive hours. Eliza Starkey was married April 4, 1861, to T. C. Sutton, in Ohio. In 1864 they moved to Illinois and came to Kansas in 1885. They bought a farm seven miles northeast of Emporia-land which had been a claim preempted by the late Capt. L. T. Heritage. There family was a large one - 10 children, and for a few years a motherless granddaughter and her father were with them, so that every meal 13 members of the family sat down to the table. Mrs. Sutton baked 12 to 16 big loaves of bread every week, with biscuits in between. She used to declare she baked bread by the barrel- and so she did. She kept her bread in a small flour barrel, and her joke was literally true. The Suttons built a substantial house on their farm, with ample barns and other buildings, and made of it one of the most attractive and thrifty appearing farms in their neighborhood. After Mr. Sutton's death, Mrs. Sutton and her daughter, Emma, moved to Emporia. "We brought up 10 children," says Mrs. Sutton, "and partly an eleventh one, and my granddaughter, Linnie, was spanked when necessary, as were my own. They never got a spanking they didn't need, and spankings are good for them. I am proud of all my children, but they were bad at times, as all children are." The Suttons, hard working and always busy, never were too busy to go regularly to church and Sunday school. "And we took the children to Sunday school," says Mrs. Sutton. "We didn't send 'em." Of the 10 sons and daughter Charity, who was Mrs. George Gadbery, died in 1915. The others are Ira, National Military Home, Leavenworth; Grand, editor of the Moline (Kan.) Advance; Lewis, credit man of the Mercantile Company, Salina; Wilbur, a farmer living in the old home neighborhood; Onie Watson and Freedus, Emporia; Lora, Mrs. WR Brown, Erie Colo; Elsie, Mrs. Hugh Cowan, Topeka; and Miss Emma Sutton, Emporia. Mrs. Sutton has 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The Suttons have been members of the Bethel Methodist church during all of their 44 years' residence in Lyon County. - L. M. F. ==== SUTTON Mailing List ==== ONLY USE THE BELOW ADDRESS TO POST queries to the SUTTON List SUTTON-L@rootsweb.com