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From: " E.A. Kaspar" <>
Subject: Re: [HANKS] Nancy Hanks
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:54:08 -0500
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Yes, I will be glad to send you the photo; are you descended from Abner
too? I would like to add your descendancy chart to my Hanks' tree
please. I also have a photo of Abner's tombstone in S. IN.

B. A. K.

M G. Pasley wrote:

> M G. Pasley wrote:
>
>> I would appreciate a copy. Thank you very much for your generous
>> offer. Mable G. Pasley<>. Kaspar wrote:
>>
>>> I recently stopped in So. IN. at the Lincoln Farm National Park
>>> (Village of Dale, IN.) . Because Nancy Hanks is buried there, much
>>> of the park info is related to her. There is a lovely painting of
>>> her commissioned by the Babers in the wing of the visitors center
>>> dedicated to her.
>>>
>>> Nancy died in Oct. 1818 of "Milk Sickness", from milk poisoned by
>>> the cow's having eaten the common snake root plant that contains the
>>> toxin, tremetol. More than half of the deaths in the county at that
>>> time were from Milk Sickness. Abe was only nine at the time. It
>>> was too hot that day I was there to hike to the small cemetery in
>>> the park where Nancy is buried; I did buy a photo of her stone. The
>>> exact spot where she is buried is unknown.
>>>
>>> I also took a photo of the portrait of Nancy Hanks. Let me know if
>>> you would like an e mail copy.
>>>
>>> I asked the park ranger if there were a Hanks' family tree available
>>> at the park, and she replied that they did not plant trees! I
>>> believe that we Hanks descendants should contact the park service
>>> and ask them to post a Hanks' tree (no living descendants, of course).
>>>
>>>
>>> E. Kaspar, descendant of DAR Patriots, John and son, Abner
>>> Hanks, and also of Capt. Thomas Hanks
>>>
>>>
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