Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lincoln Family Magazine, Vol. 1: Genealogical, Historical and Biographical; July, 1916
Mr. Campbell Buckles, who was reared by Christian Carriger and his wife, Levisa Ward Carriger, once said that Nancy Hanks sewed and wove for the Lincolns. Thomas Lincoln courted Nancy Hanks, her family moved to Kentucky, and Thomas Lincoln either went with them, or followed them, and married Nancy Hanks in Kentucky. Squire Mordecai Lincoln of Greeneville, Tenn., was a brother of Isaac Lincoln. Mordecai Lincoln married Sophia Heiskell, of a very fine family, and still noted throughout Tennessee. To them were born two daughters, Sarah Amelia and Mary. Sarah Amelia Lin coln married Dr. William Barton, a northern man. The last heard of Mrs. Barton's descendants they were living at Nashville. Mary Lincoln married William Brown. Three children are living in Greeneville. Mrs. Mordecai Lincoln was a very refined, cultured woman, but rather peculiar.
Dr. Samuel Murray Stover, a grand nephew of Mary Lincoln, was a physician in the army of General Robert E. Lee. His brother, Colonel Dan Stover, who married Mary Johnson, daughter of Andrew Johnson, went withhis father-in-law Andrew Johnson, and was a Colonel in the Second Tenn. (federal). The rest of the Stovers were Southern.
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