Ancestry of
Abraham Lincoln

(1744–1786)

Abraham Lincoln

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Lincoln 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Flowers   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 May 1744 
  • Birth Location:
  • Berks County, Pennsylvania 
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  • Death Date:
  • May 1786 
  • Death Location:
  • Jefferson County, Kentucky 
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  • Notes: 

  • Abraham was shot and killed by Indians. John Harrison, in his 1935 book titled "Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: Some Pioneers to Old Augusta County" states on page 285 that early biographers who said that Abraham first married a Mary Shipley were wrong. He states that later investigators are agreed that there was only the one wife, Bathsheba Herring.

• Marriages for Abraham Lincoln

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  • Spouse:
  • Bathsheba Herring
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 9 Jul 1770
  • Marriage Location:
  • Augusta County, Virginia

• Sources for Abraham Lincoln

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A070398.
  • ² U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #94276, Membership application for Max Marshall Keller.
  • ³ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Nat'l No. 92218, Application for Edgar Richard Cantwell.
  • ⁴ Barton, William Eleazar, Old Theories Upset, Chicago: (1923), 2-3.
  • ⁵ Barton, William Eleazar, The Lineage of Lincoln, Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company (1929), 63.
  • ⁶ Harrison, John Houston, Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: Some Pioneers to Old Augusta County, Virginia, and Their Descendants . . ., Dayton, Virginia: Joseph K. Ruebush Company (1935), 284-285.
  • ⁷ Keiser, David S., "Quaker Ancestors for Lincoln", Lincoln Herald, Fall 1961, Vol. 63, Page135.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 453.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Abraham Lincoln (captain)", (accessed 07/31/2011).