Question:
Looking for relationship: Nancy Hanks born 02/05/1785, Campbell, VA & Jeremiah Hanks born abt 1824, KY?
Phyllobates
2008-12-22 15:52:11 UTC
Nancy Hanks is the mother of Abraham Lincoln. Jeremiah Hanks was married to Nancy W. Oldham, born about 1833. I'm looking for Jeremiah's parents/grandparents and his relationship to Nancy Hanks. The family states he was related I'm just trying to find the link.
Three answers:
jan51601
2008-12-22 23:13:55 UTC
http://www.bjhughes.org/suttobit.html

Emporia, KS, Tue, Feb c1928

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 & SISTER. The Jeremiah Hanks branch of the family moved from VA to OH, instead of to KY, as did the branch which became allied with the Lincoln family.



http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=erik_0708&id=I1178

Nancy Hanks

Birth: 1785; Amelia, Campbell Co., Virginia

Death: 5 OCT 1818; Gentryville, Spencer Co., Indiana

(Her Father: James Hanks &Mother: Lucy Shipley b: 1765; Marriage — 1783 in Mechlinburgh Co., North Carolina)

Married: 12 JUN 1806 in Beachland, KY to

Thomas Lincoln--Birth: 1778

Their Children

Sarah Lincoln b: 1807 in Elizabethtown, KY

Abraham Lincoln b: 12 FEB 1809 in La Rue County, KY



http://www.ancestry.com

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900

Name: Nancy Hanks

Gender: female

Birth Place: VA

Birth Year: 1784

Spouse Name: Thomas Lincoln

Spouse Birth Place: VA

Spouse Birth Year: 1778

Marriage Year: 1806

Number Pages: 1



http://nmgenealogy.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html

(from an obituary): "Mrs. Amanda Hanks,95, was the widow of John William Hanks ,a relative of Nancy Hanks, Abraham Lincoln's mother.

Mrs. Hanks was born November 5, 1863, at Barnesville, Ohio. On July 7, 1880, she was married to Mr. Hanks at Nashville, Indiana. His parents had lived in the same settlement in Kentucky where Lincoln spent his early years. Mr. Hanks' relationship to Nancy Hanks was traced through his uncle, Abner Hanks, who was a cousin of Lincoln's mother. (NOTE: ABOVE IT SAID NANCY & ABNER WERE SIBLINGS)



http://graves.inssar.org/H/hankabne.html

"Revolutionary War Soldier, Abner Hanks (cousin to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of Abe) settled in Johnson County and had at least five wives and more than 15 children."



www.ancestry.com --1860 United States Federal Census

Name: Jeremiah Hanks

Age in 1860: 35

Birth Year: abt 1825

Birthplace: Kentucky

Home in 1860: Concord, Clinton, Missouri

Gender: Male

Post Office: Plattsburg

Household Members: Name Age

Jeremiah Hanks 35

Nancy W (Oldham) Hanks 27

John Hanks 3

Agnes E Hanks 2

Thos P Hanks 1

Francis M Nash 21



http://homepage.mac.com/james_keller/PS133/PS133_302.HTML

Abner Hanks: b. 1763 VA - d. 1846 IN

Father John HANKS (1728-1810)

Mother Susannah



http://www.melungeons.com/genealogy/hanksmarriage.htm

Jeremiah's parents?? Spouses-state-county--marriage date

**Pitman Hanks &Emma Nash-- KY-- Franklin-- Jan. 27, 1823

(Source: IL, IN, KY, OH, TN, 1720-1926 Marriage Index )



Jerramah Hanks

Birth: 9 Nov 1823

Parents: Pitman Hanks & Emma Nash**



http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0247400-00&templatename=/article/article.html

"Ancestry. Lincoln's paternal ancestry has been traced, in an unbroken line, to Samuel Lincoln, a weaver's apprentice from Hingham, England, who settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1637. From him the line of descent came down through Mordecai Lincoln of Hingham and of Scituate, Mass.; Mordecai of Berks county, Pa.; John of Berks county and of Rockingham county, Va.; and Abraham, the grandfather of the president, who moved from Virginia to Kentucky about 1782, settled near Hughes Station, east of Louisville, and was killed in an Indian ambush in 1786.

Abraham's youngest son, Thomas, who became the father of the president, was born in Rockingham county, Va., on Jan. 6, 1778.

Nancy Hanks, whom Thomas Lincoln married on June 12, 1806, and who became the mother of the president, remains a shadowy figure. Her birth date is uncertain, and descriptions of her are contradictory. Scholars despair of penetrating the tangled Hanks genealogy, and the legitimacy of Nancy's birth is a subject of argument. Lincoln, himself, apparently believed that his mother was born out of wedlock. In either case, Nancy came of lowly people. Reared by her aunt, Betsy Hanks, who married Thomas Sparrow, she was utterly uneducated.

Children: Sarah Lincoln, was born on Feb. 10, 1807; Abraham Lincoln, born 12 Feb 1809

Thomas Lincoln married 2nd: Sarah Bush Johnston (a widow with three children) on Dec. 2, 1819.

1831--Abe Lincoln, stepbrother John D. Johnston, and his cousin John Hanks took a flatboat cargo to New Orleans.





(Never really found a direct link. One site said they were cousins, and another said siblings)
Joyce B
2008-12-22 17:09:17 UTC
This was in a family tree on ancestry.com

Father: Pittman Hanks b: 03 DEC 1776 in Virginia

Mother: Emma b: ABT 1800 in Virginia
2016-04-04 10:49:11 UTC
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