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To: doodad

I have the book and read it thoroughly. I do believe Enloe was Abraham Lincoln’s father.


43 posted on 04/21/2008 11:56:37 AM PDT by varina davis
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To: varina davis
I do believe Enloe was Abraham Lincoln’s father.

And you're an unbiased judge, given your screenname.

Again, how is it that Nancy Hanks married Thomas Lincoln in 1806, gave birth to a daughter in 1807 and then claimed to have given birth to an already 5 year old son in 1809?

Let's see what we have going for the Ensloe theory.

(1) Ensloe's name was Abraham. However, Thomas Lincoln's father was named Abraham.

(2) Local legends say that Nancy Hanks lived with the Ensloe family in Rutherford County, NC.

There are no surviving records of any kind to link Nancy Hanks with this locale. At all.

In fact the same family reminscences that say Nancy lived with her relatives the Berrys in Charlotte County, VA and moved with them to KY during these years also contains the accurate information - corrobated by church records - about where she was baptized.

And that's all the evidence there is.

BTW - the whole call for DNA testing of Lincoln's remains is bogus.

The chance of recovering a usable DNA sample from Lincoln himself is approximately zero.

His last surviving son died 82 years ago and had no sons of his own, eliminating his Y-chromosome from the gene pool. And Thomas Lincoln's as well - after all, Lincoln's only brother died in infancy.

Chances of Robert Todd Lincoln's DNA surviving intact are also unlikely.

Do we even know if there are Ensloe direct-line males to test against?

Essentially, this is substanceless propaganda meant to cast aspersions on Lincoln's ancestry.

45 posted on 04/21/2008 12:39:29 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: varina davis
I do believe Enloe was Abraham Lincoln’s father.

And how does Lincoln's older sister factor into the mix? Who's her daddy, so to speak?

49 posted on 04/21/2008 6:58:02 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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