Rev. Richard A. Seaton Sr.
The Abraham Enloe-Abraham Lincoln Connection
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Abraham Enloe was my Great, Great, Great Grandfather. According to stories handed down by my family and according to several books written in the late 1800s, Abraham Enloe and his wife had an indentured servant girl named Nancy Hanks who lived with them like part of the family. Abraham Enloe fathered a child by the young girl and she named the boy “Abraham” Mrs. Enloe couldn’t stand the sight of the child in the house and said He had to go, so Abraham arranged for a man he knew through trading in Kentucky to marry Nancy. He gave Tom Lincoln $500 (a lot of money in those days) to marry the girl and take the child and her to Kentucky and continued to send money monthly to them for living expenses. One sworn affidavit states that as Tom Lincoln and Nancy Hanks left on the wagon from North Carolina the young boy Abraham sat between them. They raised the young boy, Abraham Lincoln, who later became President Abraham Lincoln.
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The same tall lanky build is seen in both of the photos below
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Wesley Enloe, son of Abraham Enloe
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Abraham Lincoln, Possible son of Abraham Enloe
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Below, tombstone of Abraham Enloe
located in Harshaw Cemetary, North Carolina
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