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11-21-2009, 08:26 PM
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Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Was Abe Lincoln Really Born in North Carolina?
There's a group of folks (in NC of course) who claim that Abraham Lincoln was really born in NC rather than KY and that his biological father was actually a fellow named Abraham Enloe and not Thomas Lincoln. I'm directly descended from Abraham Enloe but think this story is a bit far-fetched. Has anyone else here heard of it and given it any credence? The evidence I've seen on the web seems somewhat sketchy and inconclusive.
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11-23-2009, 06:01 PM
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Oh god, 19th century birthers!
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11-23-2009, 09:09 PM
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Location: Brooklyn
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Wait and see...this'll touch off a trend. People will start producing "evidence" that half the historical figures on the continent were actually born somewhere else. (Then, of course, once it gets posted in Wikipedia, everyone else will start quoting that as authoritative!)
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11-24-2009, 07:26 AM
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Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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The evidence is "sketchy and inconclusive?"
That's good enough for me. Abe's a Tar Heel.
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11-24-2009, 08:13 PM
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Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Read all about it:
Was Abraham Lincoln Born in N.C.? (http://www.carolinacountry.com/StoryPages/ourstories/abe/abe.html - broken link)
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11-28-2009, 12:15 PM
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regardless, KY was a slave border state
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11-28-2009, 12:31 PM
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Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Quote:
Originally Posted by city414
regardless, KY was a slave border state
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11-28-2009, 03:10 PM
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I wonder how these NC folks explain away the fact that Nancy Hanks married Thomas Lincoln on June 12,1806 (marriage license is on display in the Washington Co. KY Courthouse) and they had a daughter, Sarah, in Feb. 1807, then Abraham, named after his paternal grandfather Abraham Lincoln, in 1809. That hardly fits with an unmarried Nancy Hanks being impregnated in NC in June of '08.
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11-28-2009, 03:32 PM
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Location: Victoria TX
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My step-daughter is an Enloe, too, so count me in.
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11-29-2009, 08:38 AM
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Location: Somewhere in northern Alabama
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So, I'm confused here, does this mean that Lincoln was the first African-American President? That could explain a lot.
(Hey, if we are looking for conspiracy theories, let's go for the big ones.)
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