Rebekah (Flowers) Lincoln (1720 - 1806)

Born 30 Mar 1720 in Amity Township, Berks, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of John Lincoln — married 5 Jul 1743 in Berks, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 20 Jul 1806 at age 86 in Linville Creek, Rockingham, Virginia, United States

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This person is an ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln. 16th US President

Biography

Rebecca was a great-grandmother of President Abraham Lincoln. According to Paul H. Verduin, a noted authority on Lincoln's antecedents and long-time General Secretary of The Abraham Lincoln Institute, Rebecca's maiden name was Flower, not Flowers. It also may be that the name was originally Flohr, a German surname pronounced much like the Scottish pronunciation of the word flower; i.e., flu-er. In fact, one 18th-century Flohr family in Adams County, Pennsylvania is found in some records with the spelling Flower. Compare: (1) 1786-1799 Adams County baptisms of children of Leonard Flohr/Flor [F. Edward Wright's "Adams County Church Records ..."] with (2) the 1799 Adams County tax list, which lists Leonard and two other Flohr men as Flower [Warner, Beers & Co.'s "History of Cumberland and Adams Counties ..."].

Rebecca was born in 1720. She passed away in 1806.^[1] She was the widow of James Morris when she married John Lincoln on July 5, 1743, probably in Berks County, PA.^[2]

Rebecca and John Lincoln were living on Linville Creek in Rockingham County, Virginia as early as 1768. A depiction of the 1768 plat is found in Wayland's book on the Lincoln family in Virginia.^[3] It shows (1) John Lincoln's "600 acres, bought of the McKays, June 21, 1768; (2) Tunis VanPelt's 300 acres on the south of Lincoln's; and (3) Thomas Bryan's "300 acres, bought of James McKay, Feb. 9, 1762" on the south of VanPelt's. All three tracts are several times longer east-to-west than north-to-south so that Lincoln and Bryan were much closer neighbors than might sound from the acreages.

Great-grandmother of President Abraham Lincoln; wife of "Virginia John" Lincoln; married July 5, 1743, then widow of James Morris (with 1 son, Jonathan Morris, born Oct 8, 1739). Daughter of Justice of Peace Enoch Flowers and Rebecca Bernard of Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.Children (all born in Berks Co, Pa,except youngest dau, who was born in Rockingham Co., Va.: Abraham (grandfather of President Lincoln, born May 16, 1744), Hannah and Lydia (twin, born March 9, 1748), Jacob (Nov 18, 1751), John (July 15, 1755), Sarah (Sept 18, 1757, Thomas (Oct. 23, 1761) and Rebecca (April 18, 1767). Abraham went to Kentucky (and was killed by Indians in May 1786, Isaac there "where Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, join" [Tennesse]. Jacob stayed in Virginia (he is buried at the John Lincoln Homestead Cemetery, near his parents), John went to Ohio and became famous as "Ohio John Lincoln" and Thomas went to Kentucky and his offspring to Missouri.

Sources

1. ↑ Waldo Lincoln, “History of the Lincoln Family” (1923)
2. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents
3. ↑ Wayland, John W., "The Lincolns in Virginia" (1946)

• Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.
• Lincoln, Waldo, “History of the Lincoln Family” (1923).
• Verduin, Paul H., Former General-Secretary, The Abraham Lincoln Institute and Noted Authority on Lincoln's Antecedents.
• Warner, Beers & Co., "History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania", Chicago (1886).
• Wayland, John W., "The Lincolns in Virginia" (1946).
• Wright, F. Edward, "Adams County Church Records of the 18th Century" (1989).
• John Scofield Prall, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #4285, Date of Import: Jan 16, 1999. (1995), "Electronic," Date of Import: May 2, 1999.
• Daniel James Duplantis, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #1521, Date of Import: Jan 16, 1999. (1995), "Electronic," Date of Import: May 7, 1999.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #34033261 Memorial page for Rebekah Flowers Lincoln (30 Mar 1720–20 Jul 1806), Find A Grave Memorial no. 34033261, citing Lincoln Family Cemetery, Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Carolyn (contributor 46993415) .

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Sources

1. ↑ Waldo Lincoln, “History of the Lincoln Family” (1923)
2. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents
3. ↑ Wayland, John W., "The Lincolns in Virginia" (1946)
4. ↑ Flower-735 was created by Alissa Yancey through the import of Yancey Family Tree.ged on Mar 4, 2017. This comment and citation should be deleted after a short biography has been added and primary sources have been cited.