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Decatur Herald
Sunday, March 8, 1931
Decatur, Illinois
(Contributed by
Kim Torp)
Abraham J. Linthicum,
70 years, a resident of Macon County, died of heart disease at
2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon in St Mary's hospital, where he
had been a patient since last Friday. A. J. Linthicum, son of
William E. and Harriet Linthicum, was born March 28, 1860 near
Harristown. During the last 14 years he had been a resident of
Decatur, conducting a billiard hall in 253 West Main Street. His
first wife, who was Alice Butzien, died in 1908; in 1918 he was
married to Mrs. Mary Linthicum. He leaves his wife and three
step-children: Elmer Linthicum and Mrs. Bertha Lee of Decatur
and Mrs. Josle Smith of Lincoln; Also his brothers, M. C
Linthicum and C. C. Linthicum of Decatur; his sisters, Mrs.
Rachel ?rubbs and Mrs. Rosanna Robinson of Decatur, Mrs. Jennie
Cium of Harristown and Mrs. Lou Lebo of Forsyth. The body was
taken to the under-taking room of J J. Moran & Sons.
The Daily Review -
Thursday, June 04, 1914
Decatur, Illinois
(Contributed by
Kim Torp)
E. C. Linthicum, Aged Cobbler, Dies
Conducted Shoe Shop Here Forty Years. E C Linthicum who for
about forty years or more conducted a shoe shop in Decatur died
at 6 o'clock Thursday- morning at the residence of his nephew, A
J. Linthicum, 513 East William Street. He would have been
eighty-three years on Oct. 25. His death was due more to
infirmities incident to old age than to any specific ailment. He
had been in feeble health for the past two years and of late had
been failing rapidly. Mr. Linthicum was born in Hamsher County
West Virginia. Oct. 15, 1831. He came to Decatur in 1854 and had
lived here ever since. He was a shoemaker by trade and for
thirty-five years he conducted a shoe shop in the 600 block of
East Wood Street. Later he moved to the 300 block East Main
Street, and had his shop there for seven years. He had been
unable to work for over two years. He was a member of the First
Christian church and was known to all of the older residents of
Decatur. His wife died last November. He is survived by one son,
J. P. Linthicum of Decatur, and two daughters Mrs. John Smither?
of Jersey county, Illinois, and Mrs. I. V. Ford of Council
Bluffs, LA. The body was removed to the Brintlinger undertaking
establishment and prepared for burial.
The Herald-Despatch
2 Jan 1892
Decatur, Illinois
(Contributed by
Kim Torp)
William E. Linthicum dies during the night.
Friday morning Mrs. W.E. Linthicum awoke at an early hour and
called to her husband to get up. Receiving no response, she
took hold of him and tried to arouse him by shaking but was
unsuccessful. She then learned to her horror that her husband
was dead. The body was still warm and it was evident that Mr.
Linthicum had been dead but a short time. ….. Mr. Linthicum
was troubled by heart disease. He was 54 years old. A native
of New Hampshire, but for the past 38 years had been a resident
of Macon County. He leaves a widow and eight children. J.S.,
A.J. Linthicum and Mrs. R.A. Grub of Decatur; L.E. Linthicum of
Niantia; R.A., L.J., M.C. and Charles of Harristown.
The Decatur Morning Review
22 May 1890
(Contributed by
Kim Torp)
Pearl Linthicum (infant)
The funeral of Pearl, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Linthicum, who died Wednesday of Scarlet fever, took place
yesterday afternoon from the family residence, 713 W. Marietta
Street. The interment was made in Spangler Cemetery.
FOR MORE ON LITHICUM Family:
(See
1860 Census, Harristown, Macon Co., Ill. page 810)
John
Hanks is found in the History of
Macon County, Illinois
with Illustrations Descriptive of it's scenery, and biographical
sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers.
Published by Brink, McDonough & Co., Philidelphia, 1880.
Reproduced through efforts of The Decatur Genealogical Society,
1792.
pp. 204-205 [Nelson County]
JOHN HANKS, whose name will go down in history as an
early associate of Abraham Lincoln, was born in Nelson County,
Kentucky, three miles from Bardstown, on the 9th of February,
1802. His father,
William Hanks, was a Virginian who came to Kentucky at an early
day, and settled on the Kentucky river, in Mercer County.
His mother's name was Elizabeth Hall. The family lived in
Hardin and Breckinridge counties, Ky., till the subject of this
sketch was seven years of age, and then moved to Grayson county.
He first became acquainted with Lincoln in Hardin county.
Mr. Hanks was a first cousin to Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks.
In the year 1822, when he was twenty years old, he went on a
visit to Spencer county, Indiana. He was there two years,
and made his home with the Lincolns, who has removed from
Kentucky to that state. Abraham Lincoln was seven years
younger than himself, and they worked together for two years,
making rails, grubbing land, and performing the other labor
required in the development of a farm in a new country.
Mr. Hanks brought a piece of land next to the Lincoln farm,
which he improved, and then went back to Kentucky. He
afterwards made several trips, twelve in all, down the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. The only means of
disposing of surplus farm products in those days was by floating
them, on flat-boats, down to New Orleans, where a ready market
was found. In the year 1826 he married Susan Wilson, a
native of Grayson county, Kentucky. In the fall of 1828 he
moved to Illinois, and settled on the farm which he now owns in
Hickory Point township, four miles northwest of Decatur.
On his way from Kentucky to Illinois he passed through Spencer
county, Indiana, and stopped for a while with the Lincoln
family, and Thomas Lincoln, Abe's father, told Hanks to write
back when he got to Illinois, and inform them what kind of a
country he found, and if it was better than Indiana the Lincoln
family would remove to Illinois also.
Mr. Hanks wrote back, accordingly, soon after he settled in
Macon County, that he liked the country, and considered it
superior to that part of Indiana in which they
lived. Consequently, Thomas Lincoln moved with his family to
Macon county, in March, 1830. When he first came to Macon
county, Mr. Hanks had cut enough logs for a house on the
Sangamon river, but on account of not being able to get any
prairie broke, had settled instead in Hickory Point
township. On the arrival of Thomas Lincoln, he told him he
might have the logs to build a cabin if he liked the
location. The offer was accepted, and young Abe Lincoln hauled
the logs together with a yoke of oxen, and a cabin was built
near the Sangamon, in Harristown township, in which the Lincoln
family lived while they resided in Macon county. In the summer
of 1830, he went down to help the Lincolns fence a tract of
land, and he and Abe cut and split enough rails to fence fifteen
acres. From this lot of rails was taken those displayed at the
Chicago convention, in 1860. In the spring of 1831, he and
Lincoln built a flat-boat at Sangamon town, five miles from
Springfield.
They went there in
March, cut the timber, built the boat, and in May floated it
out of the Sangamon. At St. Louis, Mr. Hanks left the board
to come home and see his family, and left Lincoln and the rest
of the crew to navigate it down the Mississippi to New
Orleans. In 1832 Mr. Hanks was in the Black Hawk war, having
enlisted in a company commanded by Isaac C. Pugh. He came
back to Macon county, and was engaged in farming till 1850,
and then went to California. He was occupied three years in
mining within sixty or seventy miles of Sacramento, and came
back in 1853. On the breaking out of the war of the rebellion
he volunteered, and enlisted in Co. A., of the 21st Illinois
regiment. This was the regiment as colonel in command of which
Gen. U. S. Grant entered the war. Mr. Hanks was fifty-nine
years old when he enlisted. He served over two years as wagon
master. While Grant had command of his regiment he had charge
of his staff team. He served in Missouri, Tennessee,
Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Becoming
incapacitated from duty by the rheumatism, he was honorably
discharged at Winchester, Tennessee, after two years'
service. Since the war, Mr. Hanks has been three times to
California and Oregon, and altogether has seen a considerable
portion of this country. He has never held office, nor has
cared to occupy any public position. After Lincoln had been
elected president he invited him to dinner at Springfield, and
offered to do anything in his power for his old comrade, but
he declined to accept any office, preferring to remain at home
with his family. Before the war he was a democrat, but always
supported Lincoln when he was a candidate for any office, and
since the rebellion has been a strong republican. His wife
died in March, 1863. He has had eight children, of whom six
are now living. William resides near Monticello, in Piatt
county. James Lewis lives in Lake County, Oregon. Jane
married Alexander T. Medlin, and is now dead. John Felix died
at the age of twenty-one. Emily is the wife of Elijah Loomis
of Hickory Point township. Grayson lives in north-west
Missouri. Mary Ellen married John Manning, and now lives in
Humboldt county, California, and Levi Hanks, the youngest son,
lives near Moawequa.
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