Nancy Shipley

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• FamilySearch ID: LV6X-P3Y
• Initiatory (LDS): 18 Sep 1934, SLAKE

Family/Spouse: Joseph Hanks. Joseph (son of John Hanks and Catherine Williams) was born on 20 Dec 1725 in Farnham, Richmond, Virginia, United States; died in 1793 in Henderson, Kentucky, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LZGB-DPF
• Initiatory (LDS): 29 Sep 1930, SLAKE

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• FamilySearch ID: KN6W-CSY
• Initiatory (LDS): 3 Feb 1909

Nancy married Thomas Lincoln on 12 Jun 1806 in Beechland, Washington, Kentucky, United States. Thomas (son of Captain Abraham Linkhorn Lincoln and Bathsheba Herring) was born on 6 Jan 1778 in Rockingham, Virginia, United States; died on 17 Jan 1851 in Coles, Illinois, United States; was buried in Shiloh Cemetery, Lerna, Coles, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LDHB-4MK
• Initiatory (LDS): 23 Jan 1931, SLAKE

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• FamilySearch ID: L66Z-W1W
• Initiatory (LDS): 10 Feb 1909

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• FamilySearch ID: LZJW-C31
• Initiatory (LDS): 2 Aug 1877

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16th President of the United States.

He was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th preside n t of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Linco l n led the nation through the American Civil War and succeeded in preser vi ng the Union, abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, a n d modernizing the U.S. economy.

Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky and was raise d o n the frontier primarily in Indiana. He was self-educated and becam e a la wyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Congr essma n from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his law practice but becam e vexe d by the opening of additional lands to slavery as a result of th e Kansas –Nebraska Act. He reentered politics in 1854, becoming a leade r in the ne w Republican Party, and he reached a national audience in th e 1858 debate s against Stephen Douglas. Lincoln ran for President in 186 0, sweeping th e North in victory. Pro-slavery elements in the South equa ted his succes s with the North's rejection of their right to practice sl avery, and sout hern states began seceding from the Union. To secure it s independence, th e new Confederate States fired on Fort Sumter, a U.S . fort in the South , and Lincoln called up forces to suppress the rebell ion and restore th e Union.

Lincoln, a moderate Republican, had to navigate a contentious array of f a ctions with friends and opponents from both the Democratic and Republic a n parties. His allies, the War Democrats and the Radical Republicans, d em anded harsh treatment of the Southern Confederates. Anti-war Democrat s (c alled "Copperheads") despised Lincoln, and irreconcilable pro-Confed erat e elements plotted his assassination. He managed the factions by exp loiti ng their mutual enmity, carefully distributing political patronage , and b y appealing to the American people. His Gettysburg Address appeal ed to na tionalistic, republican, egalitarian, libertarian, and democrati c sentime nts. Lincoln scrutinized the strategy and tactics in the war ef fort, incl uding the selection of generals and the naval blockade of th e South's tra de. He suspended habeas corpus in Maryland, and he averte d British interv ention by defusing the Trent Affair. He engineered the e nd to slavery wit h his Emancipation Proclamation, including his order th at the Army and Na vy liberate, protect, and recruit former slaves. He al so encouraged borde r states to outlaw slavery, and promoted the Thirteen th Amendment to th e United States Constitution, which outlawed slavery a cross the country.

Lincoln managed his own successful re-election campaign. He sought to he a l the war-torn nation through reconciliation. On April 14, 1865, just d ay s after the war's end at Appomattox, he was attending a play at Ford' s Th eatre in Washington, D.C., with his wife Mary when he was fatally sh ot b y Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln is remembered a s a m artyr and hero of the United States and is often ranked as the grea test p resident in American history.

Abraham married Mary Ann "Molly" Todd on 4 Nov 1842 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States. Mary (daughter of Robert Smith Todd and Elizabeth Ann Parker) was born on 13 Dec 1818 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States; died on 16 Jul 1882 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: G9NF-1TP
• Initiatory (LDS): 10 Jun 2015, PAYSO

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• FamilySearch ID: L4ST-FSH
• Initiatory (LDS): 3 Feb 1937, SLAKE

Robert married Mary Eunice Harlan on 24 Sep 1868 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Mary (daughter of James Harlan and Ann Eliza Peck) was born on 25 Sep 1846 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States; died on 31 Mar 1937 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Initiatory (LDS): Not Needed
• FamilySearch ID: LHDM-2G2

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• FamilySearch ID: LC3L-YRM
• Initiatory (LDS): 13 Jan 1910, SLAKE

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• FamilySearch ID: LX3S-89R
• Initiatory (LDS): 20 Jan 1910