Abraham Enloe

Born: about 1770

Died: about 1840 in Cherokee Co., NC

Sarah Edgarton

Children (15): Zelpha Docas Minerva, Isabella, Alfred Ezekiel, Elizabeth, Nancy, Margaret, Asaph, Scroop, Benjamin, John, Sarah, Watson, Abrah, and Narcissa, and Wesley

Nancy Hanks, mother of President Abraham Lincoln, worked in the Enloe house as a domestic servant when she was a teenager, in western North Carolina, near Rutherfordton.  Regional lore says that Abraham Enloe is Abraham Lincoln's real father.  When Hanks became pregnant, Enloe supposedly hired a local, Thomas Lincoln, to remove the girl from the area. Enloe was an influential landowner and wanted to avoid the scandal. Thomas took her to Kentucky and eventually Illinois, later married her, and raised the child as his own, and had others.  Many historians dispute this, but Abraham Enloe's son Wesley strongly resembles Abraham Lincoln.

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