Comments on: Abe Lincoln’s Carolina Roots

By: G E Lincoln

G E Lincoln — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:25:55 +0000

If you read the volume named “The Genisis Of Lincoln,” you see the Statesmen describing Abraham Enloe’s giving the house maid Nancy and the baby Abraham to the scroundel Tom Lincoln. Mr. Enloe gave land and donkeys to the scroundel in Kentucky so as to take the baby and Nancy. This is reality, not manufactured “History” for American text books.

By: Danny Rymer

Danny Rymer — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:01:39 +0000

Amazon has the book “Truth is Stranger than Fiction” by James H. Cathey. You will see some of the pictures I had talked about earlier

By: Danny Rymer

Danny Rymer — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:28:10 +0000

I am a decendent of the Floyds, Enloe’s and the Mingus Family who settled Cherokee N.C. My Great Grandmother was a Floyd. The Floyds, Enloes and Mingus’s had married into the family’s at some time. The Mingus Mill in Cherokee N.C. now belongs to the Federal Goverment, once belong to the Mingus Family. Abraham Enloe, from every thing handed down from the family was Abraham Lincoln’s real Father. As Nancy Hanks was a servent on the Enloe Plantation. Which is now the Federal Park Rangers Headquarters for the Smokey Mountain National Park just outside of Cherokee N.C. Some where in some of my mothers books and pictures she has a copy of a picture of Abe Lincoln, Abe Enloe and Abe’s Lincoln’s half brother, Standing outside the Enloe home. All three look exactly alike and they is so much resemblence that you can not mistake Mr Enloe as his father. When Abe was borned to Nancy, Mrs Enloe ordered Mr Enloe to send Nancy and Little Abe off the plantation. Where he took Nancy and Abe to Mr. Lincolns home in Il. Where Nancy married Mr Lincoln and gave Abe the Lincoln Last name. This is the story which has been pasted down from all of the family. I had a book that had been ordered to be distroyed and to not republish again which gave alot of the history, which as a fool I let someone borrow and it never was returned. My mother has a photo copy of the book which she got from the Library at UCLA

By: Rich Hill

Rich Hill — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:42:29 +0000

Thanks for the info. I wonder if any musums or anyone has any DNA sample that could be tested of Abraham Lincoln? I once saw a framde piece of hair jewelry which was a patriotic eagle design in a shadow box and it claimed to be the hair of Linoln and his cabinet. DNA testing has sure grown a lot inthe past ten years. The popular TV series, Who Do You Think You Are on NBC has certainly increased a great amount of public interest in tracing a family tree. DNA Genealogy testing is now becoming mainstream.

By: martha yingst

martha yingst — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:26:58 +0000

i was married 2 a Enloe 4 30 yrs. &i have 4 children 4 them i would like 2 no if any one ever did do a dna?my Father&Mother enlaws have passed away but they were from Swain County Fred Enloe was very tall &dark hair &my sister inlaw told me back in the 70′s the story of Abraham Lincoln was really Enloe .I would really like to know if youhave found out anything new concering this subject? thank you very sincerly martha jackson enloe yingst

By: Chris Holaday

Chris Holaday — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:12:34 +0000

Just because a biographer states (and believes) something to be true doesn’t always make it so. Accurate facts are not easy to track down when dealing with the often non-existent records of what were essentially wilderness areas 200 years ago.

As for wikipedia, it’s a great resource but I wouldn’t take it as the ultimate word. I can go change it right now to say Abraham Lincoln was born on the moon…

Like others have said, DNA will easily settle this question. It’s an interesting story. Might as well follow up on it, even if it upsets some long-held popular traditions.

By: Isis

Isis — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:29:19 +0000

Yes, kentucky is his birth place.I have read his biography.I also have found so many books that states he was born in Kentucky.You can also confirm it from wikipedia.

By: Steven L. Akins

Steven L. Akins — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:58:27 +0000

Thomas Lincoln was in fact married to Nancy Hanks on June 12, 1806 in Washington Co., Kentucky. Some savvy historian managed to track down the actual marriage license which shows that the couple was married by the Rev. Jesse Head, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The ceremony took place at the home of one Richard Berry, who lived near Beechland, in Washington County. Nancy Hanks may have already been pregnant with her first child, Sarah, at the time the marriage took place. Sarah Lincoln was born eight months afterwards on February 10, 1807. A copy of the Washington Co., Kentucky, marriage bond can be seen at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hlglkg/incolnhanksbond.jpg

By: John Bone

John Bone — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:41:29 +0000

Men and even great men lie, BUT science never lies… (DNA)

We live in a time that DNA will 99.9999% close the argument of this matter. I beleive that someone is scared of the truth, but either way we know he was a great president and it would be nice to put this to rest but it would also open up a can of worms and much more. Who is stopping the DNA testing? There lies your problem. I can present hundreds of pictures of Enloe and Dowdle decendents that look just like President Lincoln and you would want a DNA test just to satisfy the mind’s eye.

I know nothing of the museum but I know genetics. DNA testing will provide the truth.

By: Geoff Elliott

Geoff Elliott — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:54:10 +0000

The Bostic Center is an example of bad history no matter how you look at it. Just because there is a record of a “Nancy Hanks” does not mean she was the same person as Lincoln’s mother. Just because Lincoln does not resemble Thomas Lincoln in photos, what does that mean? I look nothing like my father. Does that mean he wasn’t my father?

There is not a single shred of evidence for the claims made by Enloe descendants. For more on this, see the book “Lincoln Legends, Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated With Our Greatest President” by esteemed Lincoln scholar Edward Steers, Jr. He devotes an entire chapter to the Enloe myth and completely shatters it.

I would trust his research and Lincoln’s own words more than I would this Bostic “museum”.

Geoff Elliott

http://abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com