Crazy Chainsaw
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Was a Letter from Thomas and Abraham Lincoln lost because of a flawed expert opinion?
At my last Family reunion I saw my Great Great Great Grandfather's Bible, and a letter that was supposed to be from Thomas Lincoln too him, this was in 1987-1988. It was written on back of a Map Drawn by him of Pates Station in Patesville Kentucky, to Taylor's ferry on the Ohio River. This was in 1816, when Lincoln Stayed at Pates Station to rest his Oxen who had an Injury too it's front hoof and had to have the hoof trimmed, and rested.
Lincoln Stayed in the Barn near the Blacksmithshop not in the Tavern. the letter was just a thank you note for the Reverend saying a Prayer for Lincoln, and his Family including his young son Abraham, and for drawing the map, and Gifting to Lincoln a Box of Nails that my Ansestor had Cut intending too use them to build his first barn on the old Family farm.
An Expert on Lincoln in Illinois was shown the letter and he said there was no proof Lincoln Stopped at Pates Station in 1816, and although the Thomas Lincoln Signature looked Real, and My Ansestor's penmanship was authentic, the letter was probably just a fake, drawn on an old Map after Lincoln's death.
He concluded that because the Note the 9 year old Abraham Lincoln wrote to My Great Great Grandfather encouraging him to Write Young Abraham was printed not Cursive, and thus most likely a fake.
I was wondering since my Great Great Grandfather would have been 5 years old at the Time would Abraham Lincoln have printed that part, because my Great Great Grandfather couldn't read Cursive?
Could a historical document have been lost just because of one experts opinion?
The Bible and the Letter are probably gone now, Lost to history, I haven't heard from that side of the family in decades.
At my last Family reunion I saw my Great Great Great Grandfather's Bible, and a letter that was supposed to be from Thomas Lincoln too him, this was in 1987-1988. It was written on back of a Map Drawn by him of Pates Station in Patesville Kentucky, to Taylor's ferry on the Ohio River. This was in 1816, when Lincoln Stayed at Pates Station to rest his Oxen who had an Injury too it's front hoof and had to have the hoof trimmed, and rested.
Lincoln Stayed in the Barn near the Blacksmithshop not in the Tavern. the letter was just a thank you note for the Reverend saying a Prayer for Lincoln, and his Family including his young son Abraham, and for drawing the map, and Gifting to Lincoln a Box of Nails that my Ansestor had Cut intending too use them to build his first barn on the old Family farm.
An Expert on Lincoln in Illinois was shown the letter and he said there was no proof Lincoln Stopped at Pates Station in 1816, and although the Thomas Lincoln Signature looked Real, and My Ansestor's penmanship was authentic, the letter was probably just a fake, drawn on an old Map after Lincoln's death.
He concluded that because the Note the 9 year old Abraham Lincoln wrote to My Great Great Grandfather encouraging him to Write Young Abraham was printed not Cursive, and thus most likely a fake.
I was wondering since my Great Great Grandfather would have been 5 years old at the Time would Abraham Lincoln have printed that part, because my Great Great Grandfather couldn't read Cursive?
Could a historical document have been lost just because of one experts opinion?
The Bible and the Letter are probably gone now, Lost to history, I haven't heard from that side of the family in decades.
