Notes:

d/o Alexander HERRING (b. 1708) & Abigail HARRISON (b. 1710).

Bathsheba married Abraham LINCOLN on 9 Jun 1770 in Virginia, USA. Abraham (son of John LINCOLN and Rebecca FLOWERS) was born on 13 May 1744 in Berks County, Pennsylvania; died in May 1786 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Nancy HANKS on 12 Jun 1806 in Beechland, Washington, Kentucky. Nancy was born on 5 Feb 1784 in Amelia Court House, Amelia, Virginia; died on 5 Oct 1818 in Gentryville, Spencer, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Also Known As: Honest Abe, The Great Emancipator
• Noteworthy: 16th POTUS
• Occupation: Lawyer, US President
• Cause of Death: Assasination - shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth

Notes:

President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated April 14, 1865, when shot in the back of the head by actor John Wilkes Booth during a play at Ford's Theater. The president died the next day.

Family/Spouse: Mary Ann TODD. Mary was born on 13 Dec 1818 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky; died on 16 Jul 1882 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Degree: Law
• Education: Harvard University Law School
• Occupation: Lawyer, Secretary of War, US Ambassador to Great Britain

Notes:

Robert Todd Lincoln was the sole surviving child of President Abraham Lincoln and a major political force during the 1870s through the early 20th century.
After graduating from Harvard University and earning his law degree, he had served in the US Union Army during the early months of 1865 as part of General U.S. Grant’s staff. Robert was present at Appomattox Courthouse with General Grant when General Robert E. Lee surrendered.
Robert was by his father's bed when he died. After President Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Robert moved with his mother, Mary Todd Lincoln and brother, Tad, to Chicago where Robert earned his law degree in 1867. By September 1868, Robert married Mary Eunice Harlan (Sept. 25, 1846 to March 31, 1937.)
They had three children: Mary Lincoln (October 15, 1869 - November 21, 1938), Abraham Lincoln, called ‘Jack’ (August 14, 1873 - March 5, 1890) and Jessie Harlan Lincoln (November 6, 1875 - January 4, 1948).
In 1871, his younger brother, Tad Lincoln, died of tuberculosis in Chicago.
In 1871 under President Hayes, Robert was offered the position of Secretary of State, which he turned down.
Under President Garfield, he did accept the position of Secretary of War, serving from 1881 to 1885 (which included serving with President Chester Arthur after Garfield's death). Robert Lincoln was present at the scene when Garfield was assassinated on July 2, 1881.
Back in Illinois around 1887, he helped establish the Illinois Industrial Training School for Boys in Norwood Park, for neglected boys. The school was later expanded to include girls.
Under President Benjamin Harrison, Robert served as the U.S. Minister (ambassador) to Great Britain from 1889 to 1893. While in London, England, in March 1890, Robert’s only son, Jack, died of blood poisoning at the age of 16.
After living in England, Robert returned to Illinois to practice law. In the mid-1890s, he was general law counsel and later President and then Chairman of the Board in 1911 for the Pullman Palace Car Company.
On September 6, 1901, Robert was present in Buffalo, NY when President William McKinley was assassinated.
He and his family had their home in Vermont in 1911, leaving Chicago. In May 1922, Robert was present for the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, with President Warren Harding.
In spite of serving in the US Government at different times, Robert Todd Lincoln had no interest in ever running or becoming US President.
Robert Todd Lincoln’s two surviving daughters did marry. Jessie Harlan Lincoln Beckwith had two children ( a son and daughter). Neither of these two grandchildren ever had children of their own. The other daughter, Mary Lincoln had one son, who married but never had children.
After 1985 with the death of the last grandchild of Robert Todd Lincoln, there were no descendants of Robert Lincoln or his father, President Abraham Lincoln.

Family/Spouse: M.E. HARLAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Married?: N
• Cause of Death: Tuberculosis, pleuristic attack, pneumonia, or congestive heart failure (pick one)

Notes:

Tad was born and photographed with a small fissure on his upper lip just to the left of midline. Although undiagnosed at the time, contemporary documents described Tad by saying "he had a cleft palate and lisped." Twenty-first-century speech/language pathologist, John M. Hutchinson, interprets contemporary photographs and documents regarding Tad, as evidence the child had both communicative and craniofacial deformities. Cleft lip and palate are a phenomenon observed to "run in families". Hutchinson suggests that Tad Lincoln's cleft lip was inherited from his paternal grandfather and namesake who also was photographed with forme fruste of the upper lip on the left side.

Family/Spouse: Anne UPTON. Anne died in 1596 in Bassingthorpe, Lincoshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Died young: Y

Other Events:

• Died young: Y