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- Robert served in the War of 1812. He settled on the Lincoln Plantation, Carter, TN. Thirteen children and one step-son listed on unprobatedWill found in the office of the County Clerk's Office Carter, TN dated 1867.
Excerpt from 'History of Western North Carolina: A History (1730-1913)' by John Preston Arthur
Published by the Edward Buncombe Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of Asheville, N.C.
Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, Raleigh, N.C. 1914
Chapter 12
ISAAC AND MARY LINCOLN SLAVEOWNERS. The Will of Isaac Lincoln, dated April 22, 1816, is filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Carter county, Tenn., anal, though yellow with age, is in a goodstate of preservation. By it he leaves all his property to his wife Mary: and when her will (filed in the same office) is examined, it is found to bequeath at least 28 negroes, musing each one separately, and providing for the support of two of them during life. William Stover, who got the bulk of her estate, was the son of her sister and Daniel Stover; and Phoebe Crow, wife of Campbell Crow, to whom she left the negro girl Margaret and her four children, to wit: Lucy, Mima, Martin and Mahala, was Phoebe Williams, a niece of Mary Lincoln. Campbell Crow was left 'the lower plantation, it being the one on which he now lives, adjoining the land of Alfred M. Carter on the west and south and ofJohn Carriger on the east.' To Christian Carriger, Sr., she bequeathed seven negroes; to Mary Lincoln Carriger, wife of Christian CarrigerSr., she left two negro girls. Christian Carriger, Sr., had married asister of Mary Lincoln. Daniel Stover, J. D. Jenkins' great-grandfather, married another sister of Mary Lincoln. Daniel Stover's son William had a son Daniel, who married Mary, a daughter of Andrew Johnson, the successor of Abraham Lincoln in the Presidency, and he (Johnson) died in her house, a few miles above Elizabethton, July 31, 1875. P. T. Brummit lives there now. It was not a part of the Lincoln farm. The house is still visible from the railroad, the log portion thereof havingbeen torn away; but the room in which Andrew Johnson died, in the second story of the framed addition to the original house, still stands. W. Butler Stover, great-grandnephew of Mary Lincoln, of Jonesboro (R. F. D.), Tenn., still has Mary Lincoln's Bible; but he wrote (March 6, 1914) that 'it gives no dates of births or deaths or marriages of any of the Lincoln,' William Stover was Butler Stover's grandfather and inherited the farm on which Mary and Isaac Lincoln are buried, as their tombstones attest, Mary's stating that she died August 27, 1834, 'agedabout 76 years.' It is said that Isaac and Mary Lincoln had but one child, a boy, who was drowned before reaching manhood. Mrs. H. M. Folsom of Elizabethton is related to Mordecai Lincoln, while Mrs. W. M. [thought?] of the same place was a Carriger. Dr. Natt Hyder, who died twenty-odd years ago, and whose widow still live at Gap Creek, in the Sixth District, told James D. Jenkins that old people had told him-'Old Man' Lewis particularly-that Abraham Lincoln was born on the side of Lynn mountain, and was taken in his mother's arms to Kentucky, going byway of Stony Fork creek and Bristol. An anonymous writer-supposed to be B. Clay Middleton-in all article which was published in the Carter County News, February 13, 1914, says: 'Tradition says that it was here, in the beautiful Watauga Valley, so rich in history, that the youngThomas Lincoln first met and wooed the gentle Nancy Hanks, whose namewas destined to become immortal through the achievements of her illustrious son. Tradition further says that for a while before Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks left for Kentucky they lived for a time together as common law husband and wife in a little cabin on Lynn mountain, which overlooks the Watauga valley. I have been informed that old people in that vicinity still recall the site of what was known as the Tom Lincoln cabin, and traces of the spot where the cabin stood still remainin the way of stone foundations, etc.' He also cites as 'a little singular that the life of Andrew Johnson in a way should be interwoven with the name of Lincoln, whom he succeeded as President of the United States. When he married Miss Eliza McCardle, at Greenville, Tenn., it was Squire Mordecai Lincoln who performed the ceremony. His daughter Mary married Col. Dan Stover, the great nephew of Isaac Lincoln.'
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