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Abraham  Lincoln 
Before  1 860 


Rutledge  Family 


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ANECDOTES     OF  LINCOLN     FROM 
OSKALO08A. 

Oskaloosa,  la.,  Feb.  9. — Oskaloosa 
has  had  something  to  do  with  the  Lin- 
coln history  although  the  ^reat  eman- 
cipator failed  to  visit  this  city  when 
he  came  to  Iowa  in  the  early  60s. 

In   1845  one  of     the  early     settlers 

{  who  came  to  Oskaloosa    was    Robert 

j  Rutledge,  brother  of  the  girl  to  whom 

Lincoln  was  engaged  when  he  was    a 

struggling  young  lawyer. 

Mr.  Rutledge  was  familiarly  known 
as  "Bob"  and,  like  his  father,  was  a 
hotel  keeper.  For  many  years  ha 
operated  the  hostelry  known  as  the 
Burnett  house.  In  those  days  all  trav- 
el was  by  stage  and  every  tavern  had 
a  livery  in  its  connection.  The  site 
of  the  old  hotel  is  now  occupied  by  De- 
puty State  Veterinarian  Parker  as  a 
residence  and  horse  hospital. 

After  Lincoln  became  president  his 
friendship  for  the  Rutledge  family 
was  revealed  in  the  appointment  of 
"Bob"  Rutledge  for  provo  United  Stat- 
es marshal  for  Iowa.  Mr.  Rutledge 
held  the  office  for  many  years,  and  be- 
ing a  daring  man,  performed  his  duti- 
es faithfully  in  those  pioneer  days 
when  man's  bravery  was  often  put  to 
severe  tests. 

The  family  left  here  in  1868,  and  aa 
far  as  known  none  of  the  relatives  are 
left  in  Iowa.  Mr.  Rutledge  located  in 
California,  where  he  afterward  died. 

Another  early  family  in  Oskaloosa 
was  intimately  associated  with  Lin- 
coln when  he  was  a  law  student  in 
Salem,  Ills.  This  was  Rev.  Cameron, 
who  came  to  Oskaloosa  in  an  early 
day  as  pastor  of  the  first  church  ever 
built  here,  the  old  Cumberland  Pres- 
byterian church. 

There  were  eleven  girls  and  one 
son  in  the  family,  and  it  is  said  the 
girls  regarded  Lincoln  as  a  brother, 
and  some  of  them  being  older  than 
he,  they  often  twitted  him,  as  big  sis- 
ters sometimes  will.  Mr.  Lincoln  and 
the  family  kept  up  a  personal  corres- 
pondence until  the  family  left  here 
and  Lincoln  was  in  the  White  House 
In  Washington. 

Rev.  Cameron's  long  talks  with  tin 
boy  are  said  to  have  had  an  influence 
on  Lincoln  all  through  life.  Rev.  Cam- 
eron, occupying  a  mission  field  in  Os- 
Kaloosa  with  a  large  family  on  his 
hands,  fonud  it  necessary  to  do  other 
things  besides  preach,  and  he  helped 
to  haul  the  lumber  from  Keokuk  with 
which  the  Madison  house,  the  first  ho- 
tel in  Oskaloosa,  was  built.  The  son 
married  and  lived  here  many  years. 
He  built  the  first  brick  residence  In 
Oskaloosa,  which  is  still  standing, 
and  is  now  occupied  by  the  Charles 
Phelps  family.  Both -the  older  and 
younger  Cameron  families  emigrated 
to  California  and  so  far  as  known  the 
Lincoln  connection  here,  aside  from 
the  friendship  of  soldiers,  was  broken 
long  ago.  _     


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Rutledg^,  David  to  James  Rutledge 


July  27,  1835    Intimate  Sketches  of  A.  L, 

Henry  R.  Rankin 


Kin  of  Lincoln's 
Sweetheart  Is 
NearDeath$t83 

Petersburg,  III.,  Feb.n2. 

MRS.  JANE  RUTLEDGE, 
83,  whose  husband  was 
a  cousin  of  Anne  Rutledge,  a 
sweetheart  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, is  near  death  at  her 
home  here  today. 

Mrs.  Rutledge  is  a  direct 
descendant  of  the  Clareys, 
who  were  among  the  first  set- 
tlers of  Old  Salem.  She  has 
lived  here  most  of  her  life. 


TO  PAY  HONOR  TO 
JANE  RUTLEDGE 


Special    to   Tbe   State  Journal. 

Petersburg,  Feb.  25.— Funeral  rites 
for  Mrs.  Jane  Rutledge,  cousin  of 
Anne   Rutledge,    famous   as   Lincoln's 


sweetheart,  will  be  held  at  2  o'clock 
Tuesday  afternoon  at  the  Cumber- 
land Presbyterian  church  and  burial 
will  be  made  in  Oakland  cemetery, 
near  where  rests  the  remains  of  Anne 
Rutledge.  Rev.  A.  C.  DeForest,  pas- 
tor of  the  church,  will  officiate. 

Mrs.  Rutledge  or  Aunt  Jane  as  she 
was  familiarly  known  throughout  the 
county,  died  early  yesterday  morn- 
ing following  an  illness  of  several 
weeks.  She  was  the  widow  of  the 
late  Jasper  Rutledge,  cousin  of  Anne, 


for  many  years  a  prominent  land 
owner  and  former  sheriff  of  this 
county. 

Aunt  Jane  was  the  daughter  of 
Robert  and  Irene  Elmore  Clary,  per- 
sonal friends  of  the  Lincolns.  The 
decedent  was  well  known  in  this  com- 
munity for  her  many  intimate  stories 
concerning  Lincoln  and  his  associ- 
ates. Her  memories  have  done  much 
to  enrich  the  folklore  of  this  county, 
which  has  done  much  to  preserve  in- 
timate glimpses  of  the  Lincoln  era. 


Marriage  License      ,v 
Of,  1808  Asked  for 
By  Rutledge  Kin 

HENDERSON,  Ky.,  Jan.  15.—  (Spe- 
cial)— A  request  for  a  certified  copy 
if  the  marriage  license  granted  to 
lames  Rutledge  and  Miss  Mary  Ann 
Miller  in  Henderson  January  3, 
1808.  was  made  in  a  letter  received 
[oday  by  T.  J.  Cottingham  from  Mrs. 
H.  E.  Pickering  of  San  Pedro.  Cal. 
Mrs.  Pickering  sets  forth  in  her 
letters  that  she  is  a  child  of  a  sister 
>l  Anne  Kutledge,  the  early  sweet- 
neait  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  Anrie 
Kutledge  was  the  daughter  of  James; 
Uutledge  .and  Mary  Ann  Miller.  j 
't.  -*. *. r*.k-.lA    C**i*      4     . '    .    \\^    \  V-^  ' 


14 

Mr.  §®mll  Mayes, 


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In  r&ply  to  your  letter  of  August  33t  X93X»  lot  n* 
to  ycy  £&o  following:  «tat«s9ot#  coosaming  the  family  of  ftait 
May&a  m%l®&g®0  mmtWmxi  of  Abra&in  Unaoln: 


Jsbkhr  $utX«4gfta  *as  born  In  ;3mith  Carolina, 

t!'i-fi0^  to  Georgia,,  th*»ao«  to  %mm®m^9  ftmxe*  to  Kentucky,  wh^re 
be  aarriM-Mary  &rai  filler,,  in. 8*i**er$©n  "ounfcy.  then  across  to 
Mti  Bcmftf*  riHii/:lnf  in  the  fall  of  XS!3t  at  tehtah  time  fen 
ttay««  Suti&lgo  wan  a  baby  in.  arms.  and  m&r*a  to  Monsrd  County  Cth*m 
Sangston)  msm  Coooord  Creak  in  X33S.  tfmn  toj&m  Salem.  fou&iiftg 
the  trik  th*n  baofc  to  voaoord,  on  th?  Motes  f ana,  ram  both  Ann 
a»5  ft-  5iMf  th«  forrar  or  mmmt  2B  m%6  th»  Xattor  on  r*o«ai«*r  3t 
1835. 

Mr*  TatiBim  mm  of  ^uriitsh  descent,  famm&im  fto® 
tho  £uti  4  bo  ftSgiM  ttti  ^l&rr.tion  of  la^vsntfenca;  another  of 
IIhi  fanlly  was  fgugjMMi  Court  J»gtiOo§  i^notte    m  i  a.  proeainent  aeraD*r 

Of    SongTGaBU 

thorns  Cameron  mi  sootoh.  8*  #am  Wm  Wkltem*  Mr. 
m?m  «srrif«s  a  ^itifcof  litgy  •«•  Millar.  ?h**ir  t»ont  John  It, 
■jsftroiSSiatoK  **»ntuc*y  ds$  Illinois  with  Jtas&s  flutlodgs  ftndhl*  brother 
»IXXi^»*  nm«  TtetXodge  n&.rri«d  &$m  1.  Cattwon**  siater,  ^usmn. 

Mary  Ann  Mil  Mr  rutXed#«  «  probably  bom  in  Gotland 
mm!  cwm  w$$k  tmx  partnt?  to  Georgia. 

thorna*  -CNaoroa.  father  of  John,  mm  a  fifcot  cousin  of 

Simeon  Caairon  of  LinooXn***  «ife  Cabinet  ami  wrrtti  .%noy  MiUer 
(Mary  $*0M  oXle*t  s$*tifi  in  {teorgin, 

I  do  not  kn  s*  tifc  iltf  of  the  Kayos  ae  the  middle  mm 
in  in®  May  of  <  Putioige. 


, 


State  of  Missouri 
Board  of  agriculture 

Jefferson   City 


JEWELL    MAYES 

SECRETARY 


Director  Louis  A.  Warren, 
Lincoln  Historical  Research  Foundation, 
Lincoln  National  Life  Ins.  Company, 
Fort  Wayne,  Indiana. 


Dear  Mr.  Warren: 


This  goes  bajck  to  and  expresses  my  appreciation 
of  your  letter  of  October  8th,  which  vas  put  over  in  a  "Per- 
sonal tray"  and  which  has  rested  until  today,  when  I  have 
opportunity  to  ans?/er  it. 

I  was  ready  to  answer  your  letter,  hut  found 
that  I  had  not  made  copy  of  the  letter  from  Mr.  Thomas  Reep, 
Petersburg,  Illinois.  When  I  answered  your  last  letter,  I 
anticipated  getting  it  copied  and  made  as  an  enclosure,  but 
that  "dateless"  transcribing  had  not  come  to  a  head  in  time, 

Enclosed  is  copy  of  letter  jrcmMr.  Thomas  Reep 
which  he  did  not  date,  but  which  was  in  answer  to  mine  of 
August  22,  1931,  as  he  indicates,  he  having  written  on  the 
back  of  my  letterhead* 

I  am  having  Mr.  J.  Nick  Perrin  of  Belleville, 
Illinois,  author  of  "Perrin1 s  History  of  Illinois"  lay  this 
Ann  Mayes  Rut ledge  question  before  the  Illinois  State  Histori- 
cal Society  at  its  meeting  in  Springfield,  Illinois  on  Decem- 
ber 3rd. 

Shall  be  glad  to  hear  from  you  further,  at  your 
pleasure  and  convenience, 

I  am  determined  to  get  enough  material  together 
that  I  may  contribute  to  you  a  little  feature  in  your  Founda- 
tion Bulletin,  later. 

Heartily, 

jpfra 

^nc.  14  and  CC§.  \%fn 

ByM. 

December  1,  1931.  * 


Honorable  J.  Nick  Parr  In, 
Belleville,  Illinois. 


Dear  Mr.  Perrin: 

I  am  hurriedly  answering  your?  of  November 
30,  that  I  might  be  sure  that  I  shall  have  sent  to  you  a 
copy  of  a  letter  received  from  Thomas  P.  Keep,  Petersburg, 
Illinois,  although  he  does  not  sign  his  address  on  the 
letter,  that  has  to  do  somewhat  with  the  family  of  Ann 
Mayes  Hut ledge,  who  was  the  daughter  of  James  But  ledge  and 
Mary  Ann  (Miller)  Hut ledge. 

Note  that  Miss  Jane  E.  Hamond  has  loaned  a 
volume  to  the  Library  at  Decatur.  Illinois,  which  has  an 
inscription  in  lincoln's  handwriting,  "To  Ann  Rutledge  by 
her  Friend  Abraham  Lincoln". 

I  shall  be  gratified  to  hear  from  you  after 
you  po  to  the  meeting  of  th«  Illinois  Historical  Society 
at  Springfield  on  veceraber  3. 

Enclosed  herewith  is  copy  of  the  letter  from 
Mr.  Feep. 

Heartily, 

JI*TCLL  UAY^S, 
Personal , 


By. 

Jk:E 

December  1,  1931. 
Snc.  11-12. 


FOR  YOUR  REFERENCE— 

CARBON    COPY 

— From  The 

STATE  BOARD  OF  AGRICULTURE 

Jefferson  City,  Missouri 


MXp  Thomas  P.  Beept 
Petersburg,  Illinois, 


Dear  Mr.  Keep: 

This  heartily  acknowlec&es  your  letter  written 
on  the  reverse  side  of  my  letter  of  August  23,  1931,  giving 
lie  essential  data  that  you  have  in  relation  to  the  history  of 
Ann  Mayes  Rut  ledge,  daug  hter  of  James  But ledge  end  Mary  Ann 
(Miller)  Butledge# 

I  am  still  trailing  after  the  reason  why  the 
word  Mayes  is  the  middle  name  of  Ann  Rut ledge.  It  is  my 
"suspicion"  that  the  mother  of  Mary  Ann  Miller  Rut  ledge  was 
a  Mayes,  hut  proving  that  is  the  next  step. 

I  shall  he  tickled  if  you  find  out  any  other 
information  along  this  line  and  may  later  send  it  to  me. 

Mr.  J.  Hick  Perrin  of  Belleville.  Illinois,  author 
of  a  history  of  Illinois,  will  be  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Illinois  Historical  Society  at  Springfield  on  "December  3,  and 
since  I  have  gotten  him  interested  in  this  subject  he  is  sroing 
to  help  make  the  hunt. 

Am  poing  to  send  carbon  copy  of  this  letter  to  Mr. 
Perrin  and  also  a  carbon  cow  to  Director  Louis  A.  Warren  of  the 
Lincoln  Historical  Research  Foundation,  c/o  the  Lincoln  National 
life  Insurance  Oomoany.  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana,  since  lie  is  also 
interested  in  this  f actor . 

Heartily, 

JlV«  I  MAYES, 
Jtt:E  Personal, 


December  1,  1931,  By 

FOR  YOUR  REFERENCE— 

ARBON   COPY 

— From  The 
ATE  BOARD  OF  AGRICULTURE 
Jefferson  City.  Missouri 


OTTO   L  SCHMIDT,  Chicago,  President 
CHARLES  H  RAM  MELKAMP,  Jacksonville 
LAURENCE    M.  LARSON  ,  Urbana. 
GEORGIA    L    OSBORNE,  Springfield,  Libbai 


December  29,1931. 


Farnsworth  Public  Library, 
Ruth  R.  Francis,  Librarian, 
Oconto,  Wisconsin, 

My  dear  Miss  Francis: 

Your  letter  at  hand  and  as  ours  is  purely  a  reference 
library,  we  cannot  send  material  as  an  inter-library  loan. 
Students  come  from  all  parts  of  the  country  to  consult  our  books 
so  you  can  readily  understand  our  position. 

Yours  very  truly, 


^ijl^o^^yu^  -  X-  (ici/riryyuL^ 


Librarian,  Illinois  State  Historical  Library. 
Secretary,  Illinois  State  Historical  Society. 


GEORGE  W.  DIXON 

1ST  VlCE-PRES. 


CECIL  BARNES 
Secretary 


CHARLES   B.  PIKE 
President 


FRANK  J.  LOESCH 
2nd  vice-Pres. 


EARLE  H.  REYNOLDS 
Treasurer 


BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

JOSEPH  ADAMS 

VINCENT   BEND1X 

WILLIAM    MCCORMICK  BLAIR 

MRS.  GEO.  A.  CARPENTER 

ROBERT  C.  FERGUS 

MARSHALL  FIELD.  Ill 

EDWARD  L.  GLASER 

WILLIAM  O.  GOODMAN 

RALPH  J.  HINES 

JAMES  L.  HOUGHTEL1NG 


Chicago  Historical  Society 

DEARBORN  AND  ONTARIO  STREETS 
Telephone  Whitehall  7949 


BOARD   OF   TRUSTEES 

DR.  JAMES   A.JAMES 

ARTHUR   G.  LEONARD 

JOY    MORTON 

CHARLES  A.  MUNROE 

POTTER   PALMER.  II 

HENRY  J.  PATTEN 

I.  NEWTON   PERRY 

MRS.  LESSING    ROSENTHAL 

JOSEPH  T.  RYERSON 

DR.  OTTO  L.  SCHMIDT 

MRS.  FRANK  D.  STOUT 


L.   HUBBARD   SHATTUCK 
DIRECTOR 


31  December  1931 


Miss  Ruth  R.   Francis,   Librarian 
Farns worth.  Public  Library, 
Oconto,  Wisconsin. 

My  dear  Miss  Francis, 

Since  we  have  very  little  genealogical  material 
in  our  library  we  are  unable  to  trace  very  definitely  the 
relationship  of  Ann  Rutledge  and  the  Rutledges  of  South 
Carolina,     The  following  excerpt  from  William  H.  Herndon's 
"Abraham  Lincoln,  Miss  Ann  Rutledge,  New  SalemM   indicates 
Ann  Rutledge' s  connection  with  the  South  Carolina  family. 
"She  was  a  grandchild  of  the  liberty-loving  patriotic 
Rutledges  of  South  Carolina.     Her  father  was  born  in  South 
Carolina,   amid  the  echoes  of  the  cannons  revolutionary 
roar."     Milo  Custer's  "A  Few  Family  Records"   gives  this 
information  concerning  her  father?  "JAMES  RUTLEDGE,   b.     S.C. 
May  11,   1781,  m.  MARY  AM  MILLER,   in  Henderson  Co.  Ky.  Jan. 
15,   1808,   and  d.   at  Petersburg,   111.  Dec.   3,   1836.     Wf.  b. 
S.C.  Oct.  21,   1787,   d.   Birmingham,   Iowa."     The  information 
for  the  Rutledge  Family  was  obtained  by  Mr.   Custer  from 
James  Rutledge  Saunders,   Sisquoc,   California,   who  is  a 
grandson  of  the  above  James  Rutledge  and  the  son  of  Ann 
Rutledge* s  sister,   Sarah  F.   (Rutledge)  Saunders. 

■ 

Newberry  Library  may  be  able  to  trace  the  connection 
more  definitely  for  you,  since  they  have  a  large  genealogical 
collection* 


Very  truly  yours, 


Eleanor  J.  Conway, 
Library  Supervisor. 


SJCss 


Seventy-fifth  year  of  public  service 


%,\\t  ^Nefctr  ^Qtk  public  ^tbrarjr 

,Astor,  |£cnox  anb  'Silflett  foundations 


OFFICE  OF  THE 

ASSISTANT  DIRECTOR 
5th  Avenue  6?  42nd  Street  3{ewYorkt        January    2,     1932 


Miss  Ruth  R.  Francis,  Librarian 
Farnsworth  Public  Library 
Oconto,  Wisconsin 

Dear  Madam: 

In  reply  to  your  letter  of  December  26th; 

Our  genealogy  division  reports  that  it  cannot  find 
anything  about  the  ancestry  of  Ann  Mayes  Rutledge  beyond  the 
fact  that  her  father  was  James  Rutledge,  born  in  South  Carolina. 

We  suggest,  however,  that  you  write  to  Miss  Mabel  L. 
Webber,  editor  of  the  South  Carolina  Historical  and  Genealogical 
Magazine,  South  Carolina  Historical  3ociety,  Library  Building, 
King  Street,  Charleston,  South  Carolina.   She  wrote  an  article 
on  the  Rutledge  family  of  South  Carolina,  in  the  January  and 
April,  1930,  issues  of  the  magazine;  and  although  we  do  not  find 
any  mention  of  Ann  Rutledge  therein,  Miss  Webber  may  have  more 
information. 


Very  truly  yours, 


H.  M.  Lydenberg, 
ED  Assistant  Director 


The  IiTNG  otjW  Wat  i  on  An 

m  Insurance  ClGMpOTr 


"Its name  indicates  i(s  character" 

LINCOLN 
HISTORICAL    RESEARCH    FOUNDATION 

Louis  A.  Warren,  director 


Research  Bureau 
interprets  the  life  of  lincoln  as  re- 
vealed in  authorized  public   records 
and  original  manuscripts. 


January  9,  1932 


PUBLICATION    BUREAU 
PREPARES    HISTORICAL  DATA  FOR  RELEASE 
IN   BOOKS.  PAMPHLETS.  AND   MAGAZINES. 


Miss  Marva  A.  ]Faul.ds 
Peabody  House 
Appleton,  Wisconsin 

My  dear  Miss  Faulds: 


INFORMATION    BUREAU 
COMPILES  AND    INDEXES  ALL  AVAILABLE  IN- 
FORMATION     BEARING     ON      THE     SUBJECT 
OF  LINCOLNIANA. 


I  em  just  in  the  midst  of  preparing  a  brief 
monograph  on  Ann  Eutledge  and  I  will  "be  very  glad  to 
send  you  an  advance  copy  of  the  Lincoln  Lore  bulletin 
which  will  print  it  just  as  soon  as  it  is  ready, 


EXHIBIT  BUREAU 
COLLECTS  PORTRAITS  OF  LINCOLN,  CURIOS. 
MEDALS,     SOUVENIRS,      ETC.      FOR     PUBLIC 
DISPLAY. 


It  will  contain,  I  think,  about  all  we  know 
with  reference  to  Ann  Eutledge  and  her  ancestry. 

I  have  been  unable  to  find  any  connection 
whatever  between  the  Eutledge  family  of  Declaration  of 
Independence  fame  and  Ann  Eutledge,  the  sweetheart  of 
Lincoln. 


Speakers  Bureau 
provides    speakers    for    meetings   of 
civic   clubs,    school    groups,  church 
organizations,  etc. 


EDUCATIONAL  BUREAU 
PROMOTES       CONTESTS.       ARRANGES      PRO- 
GRAMS,   AND    STIMULATES  AN  INTEREST  IN 
THE  STUDY  OF  LINCOLN'S  LIFE. 


If  you  have  been  able  to  discover  such  a  con- 
nection I  should  like  very  much  to  learn  of  the  source 
where  such  intelligence  can  be  found. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 


Jj2u^  G^U_>W^       Mrecto 
•incoln  Historical  Besearcfr  Foundatio 


Foundation 


LAW:LH 


Memorial  bureau 
marks  sites  of  historical  significance 
associated  with  lincoln,  and  empha- 
sizes anniversary  occasions. 


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UMSIaJ?- 


P^oia  oujJ^i  t 


THE    STATE    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY    OF    WISCONSIN 


JOSEPH     SCHAFER  (TRUSTEE  OF  THE   STATE) 

Superintendent 

MADISON 


January  13,  1932 

Dr.  Robert  C.  Faulds, 

Abrams,  Wisconsin. 

Dear  Dr.  F aulas: 

We  have  no  book  that  will  give  the  relationship  of  Ann  Rutledge 

and  Edward  who  signed  the  Declaration  of  Independence.   Carl  Sandburg 

in  his  Abraham  Lincoln  makes  the  statement  that  she  belonged  to  the 

South  Carolina  branch  of  the  Rutledge,  but  he  cites  no  proof,  and 

unless  he  has  it  the  mere  statement  is  not  effective. 

We  have  the  Biography  of  Edward  Rutledge  of  South_ Carolina  by 

Robert  Wain,  1825.  He  says  That  John  Rutledge  b.  1739  and  Edward 

!..  b  brothers  and   sons 

Rutledge  $.   Nov.  23,  1749  were  JE±±kaEKxsHKSXEsi;x3saEihsKX  of  Dr.  John 

Rutledge,  native  of  Ireland,  who  settled  in  South  Carolina  about 

1735.    Edward  Rutledge  had  several  children  by  his  first  wife 

Harriet  or  Henrietta  Middleton,  but  the  name  of  only  one  child  is 

givaa  and  that  is  Major  Henry  M.  Rutledge.  The  name  of  Ann's  father 

was  James. 

Ann  Rutledge1 s  relationship  to  Edward  is  a  point  we  have  been 

endeavoring  to  find  for  some  time,  but  we  have  so  far  teeen  unsuccessful. 

Yours  very  tiuly, 


Annie  A.  Nunns,  Asst.  Supt. 


THEODORE   D.   JERVEY,   President 
A.    S.    SALLEY,   First   Vice-President 
LANGDON  CHEVES,  Second  Vice-President 
YATES  SNOWDEN,  Third  Vice-President 
D.  E.   HUGER  SMITH,  Fourth  Vice-President 
MABEL  L.  WEBBER, 

Secretary-Treasurer  and  Librarian 


CURATORS: 

REV.   WM.   WAY 
JOHN  BENNETT 
N.  B.  BARNWELL 
FRANK  R.  FROST,  Esq. 
C.  BISSELL  JENKINS 
COL.  O.  J.  BOND 
J.  H.  EASTERBY 
SAMUEL  G.  STONEY 
EDWARD    MANIGAULT 


lona9</e±/on>  ^Luraj'u'  ^Jiui/(/cng/ 
(onat'feUc7i,  J.    To. 


January  13,  1. 
n"iss  Dorothy  Male  Tenton, 

amuel  Apple  ton.  library, 
Lawrence  College  , 

■pie tori,  T"is. 

Dear  "~~      ,m: 

There  is  no  connection  that  has  ever  "been  found,  "between 
the  family  of  Lincoln's  \         '  it ledge ,  and  the  prominent  Rutledge 
family  of  thi      3.  There  s/ere  several  other  families    the  name 
of  Rutled  ;e ,  in  the  state,  hut  in  a  different  section.  The  genealo 
which  I  prepared  dealt  with  the  descendants  c:  Dr. John  Rutledge  who 
married     ,h  Eext;  these  people  were  wealthy  people  occupying  pro- 
minent DQsitione  politically  arc  socially,  the  other  Rutledges  seem- 
ed  to  have  "been  stru gl i  armors  of  limited  means  and  education. 

The  statement  made  Py  Herndon  was  probably  based  on  his  own  surmises; 
he  probably  started  the  tradition  that  Ann  Rutledge  belonged  to  the 
family  of  the  signer  and  Dr. John  Rutledge. 

The  Genealogy  of  Dr. John  Rutledge Ts  family   5   rinted  in  the 
routh  Carolina  Historical  and  Genealogical  Magazine.  Vbl'XXXI  num- 


bers 1  and  2. 


Yours   very   truly 


TftoUf  cjOktU? 


j«uv  Aitv. 


The  IjINcoiiW  Wmtionaii 

IjIHE  Inbitramgh  Commvf 


"Its  name  indicates  its  character" 

LINCOLN 
HISTORICAL    RESEARCH    FOUNDATION 

Louis  A.  Warren,  director 


Research  bureau 
interprets  the  life  of  lincoln  as  re- 
vealed in  authorized  public  records 
and  original  manuscripts. 


February  30,  1932 
Diet,  February  19 


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IN   BOOKS,  PAMPHLETS,  AND  MAGAZINES. 


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FORMATION     BEARING      ON       THE     SUBJECT 
OF  LINCOLNIANA. 


Miss  Marva  Faulds 
Peabody  House 
Applet on,  Wis. 

My  dear  Miss  Faulds: 

Some  time  ago  I  advised  you  I  would  forward 
a  copy  of  the  broadside  on  Ann  Rutledge  as  soon  as 
it  was  printed.  Enclosed  you  will  please  find  a  copy 
and  if  it  contains  information  which  will  help  you 
we  are  glad. 

If  you  have  found  further  information  which 
we  do  not  have,  we  should  be  very  glad  to  acquire  it. 


Exhibit  bureau 

collects  portraits  of  lincoln,  curios; 
medals,   souvenirs,    etc.    for    public 

DISPLAY; 


SPEAKERS  BUREAU 
PROVIDES      SPEAKERS     FOR     MEETINGS     OF 
CIVIC     CLUBS,     SCHOOL     GROUPS,    CHURCH 
ORGANIZATIONS,  ETC. 


Very  truly  your; 


LAW:EB 
Enc.    (1) 


G.    ^CtA/L-M_^     Director 

Lincoln  Historical  Research* Foundation 


Educational  bureau 
promotes    contests,    arranges    pro- 
grams, and  stimulates  an  interest  in 
the  study  of  lincoln's  life. 


Memorial,  bureau 
marks  sites  of  historical  significance 
associated  with  lincoln.  and  empha- 
sizes anniversary  occasions. 


No.  149 


FORT  WAYNE,  INDIANA 


February  15,  1932 


LINCOLN   LORE 


Bulletin  of 
The  Lincoln 
h  istob  ica  l 
Research 
Foundation 


• 


Dr.   Louis   A.   Warren 


Endowed  By 
The  Lincoln 
National  Life 
Insurance 
Company 

Editor 


THE  RUTLEDGE  FAMILY 

Lincoln's  and  St.  Valentine's  anni- 
versaries occurring  as  they  do  with  so 
brief  an  interval  separating  them  in- 
vite one  to  recall  again  the  story  of 
America's  best  known  romance.  The 
courting  of  Ann  Rutledge  by  Abra- 
ham Lincoln  with  its  tragic  ending  has 
lost  none  of  its  human  interest  through 
the  years  although  some  of  the  more 
dramatic  episodes  in  the  drama  have 
proved  to  be  nothing  other  than  fic- 
tion. 

William  Herndon  as  far  as  we  have 
been  able  to  learn  was  the  first  one  to 
attempt  a  public  recital  of  Abraham 
Lincoln's  early  romance.  It  was  the 
main  theme  of  what  he  called  a  lec- 
ture on  "Abraham  Lincoln,  Miss  Ann 
Rutledge,  New  Salem,  Pioneering  and 
the  Poem  Called  'Immortality'."  It 
was  delivered  in  Springfield,  Illinois, 
in  1866. 

Mr.  Herndon,  in  the  introduction  of 
this  address,  said,  "I  am  willing  that 
my  character  among  you  may  stand 
or  fall  by  the  substantial  truthfulness 
of  this  lecture  in  every  particular." 

It  is  not  the  purpose  of  this  mono- 
graph to  question  the  authenticity  of  a 
certain  statement  in  the  first  para- 
graph of  the  lecture  in  order  to  con- 
tribute further  evidence  against  this 
address,  which  often  has  been  success- 
fully challenged.  The  purpose  of  this 
paper  is  to  raise  the  question  of  the 
origin  of  the  New  Salem  Rutledges. 
Mr.  Herndon  in  referring  to  Ann  Rut- 
ledge says: 

"She  was  a  grand-child  of  the  lib- 
erty-loving, patriotic  Rutledges  of 
South  Carolina.  Her  father  was  born 
in  South  Carolina  amid  the  echo  of 
the  cannon's  revolutionary  roar." 

The  inference  here  is  plain  that  Ann 
was  a  descendant  of  the  aristocratic 
Rutledge  family  which  contained  three 
illustrious  brothers,  John,  Hugh,  and 
Edward,  the  latter  a  signer  of  the  Dec- 
laration of  Independence.  Practically 
every  historian  has  accepted  this  story 
of  Ann  Rutledge's  ancestry,  one  of  the 
best  informed  writers  in  the  history 
of  New  Salem  claiming  that  Ann's 
father  was  a  descendant  of  "The  Rut- 
ledge who  signed  the  Declaration  of 
Independence." 

Edward  Rutledge,  the  signer,  was 


born  in  Charleston,  November  23,  1749, 
and,  about  1773,  married  Harriet 
daughter  of  Henry  Middleton.  In  May, 
1780,  when  serving  under  Gen.  Benja- 
min Lincoln,  he  fell  into  the  hands  of 
the  enemy  and  remained  in  prison  for 
a  whole  year.  James  Rutledge,  the 
father  of  Ann  Rutledge,  was  bom  May 
11,  1781,  so  that  it  is  not  likely  that 
he  was  the  son  of  the  signer. 

There  was  a  colony  of  Rutledges  in 
Augusta  County,  Virginia,  which  may 
prove  to  have  been  the  same  family 
from  which  Ann  Rutledge  descended. 
As  early  as  1752  a  George  Rutledge 
disposed  of  his  land  stating  that  he 
was  removing  to  the  "colony  of  Caro- 
lina." This  it  will  be  observed,  how- 
ever, was  three  years  after  Edward 
Rutledge  the  signer  was  born  in 
Charleston. 

In  the  same  deed  book  appears  the 
will  of  John  Rutledge  which  mentions 
his  "aged  father",  brothers,  William 
and  Thomas,  sisters  Katherine  and 
Jean,  and  a  nephew  George.  This  will 
was  witnessed  by  William  Armstrong 
whose  family  name  we  find  constantly 
associated  with  the  Rutledges  in  Vir- 
ginia, Kentucky,  and  Illinois. 

In  1776,  the  same  year  that  Thomas 
Lincoln,  the  father  of  the  President, 
was  born  in  Augusta  County,  Thomas 
Armstrong  made  his  will;  beside  his 
wife,  Ann,  he  names  two  daughters, 
Sarah  and  Jean,  both  of  whom  were 
married  to  men  by  the  name  of 
Rutledge. 

The  husband  of  Sarah  was  named 
Edward  Rutledge  and  Jean's  husband 
was  Thomas  Rutledge;  both  of  these 
men  made  their  wills  in  Augusta 
County  in  1785  but  the  will  of  Thomas 
was  not  probated  until  1791. 

The  names  of  Edward's  and  Sarah's 
children  were  James,  George,  Re- 
beckah,  Rosannah  and  Lucy — the  lat- 
ter having  married  John  Allison. 
Thomas'  and  Jean's  children  are 
named  as  follows:  James,  John, 
Thomas,  Edward,  Katherine  Riddle, 
Elizabeth  Armstrong,  Ann  Hender- 
son, Mary  Young  and  Jean  Brooks. 
The  marriage  register  for  Augusta 
County  for  1786  records  the  names  of 
James  Rutledge  and  Jane  Finley,  and 
two  years  later  James  Rutledge  and 
Eleanor  Ralston  were  united  in  mar- 
riage. 

One  of  the  earliest  records  of  an 
arrival  of  the  Rutledge  family  in  Ken- 
tucky is  found  in  Green  County,  where 
Isaac  Rutledge  married  Anne  Arm- 
strong in  December,  1799.  The  Hern- 
dons  lived  in  Green  County  and  Abra- 
ham Lincoln  was  born  ten  years  later 
in  Hardin  County,  adjacent  to  Green. 

It  is  Henderson  County,  however, 
where  the  larger  colony  of  the  Rut- 
ledges settled;  as  they  did  not  arrive 
until   about   1809,   there   is  plenty  of 


time  for  this  new  generation  of  Rut- 
ledges to  have  been  born  in  Carolina 
and  to  have  lived  for  some  time  in 
Tennessee  before  coming  to  Kentucky ; 
in  fact,  many  of  the  Virginia  immi- 
grants moved  to  Kentucky  by  easy 
stages.  The  family  names  and  the 
names  associated  with  the  Rutledge 
family  is  strong  evidence  that  the  Hen- 
derson County,  Kentucky,  family  orig- 
inated in  Augusta  County,  Virginia. 

From  Kentucky  on  the  history  of 
Ann  Rutledge  is  easily  traced.  Her 
father,  James,  entered  land  for  taxes 
on  Canoe  Creek  in  Henderson  County 
in  1809,  and  a  Thomas  Rutledge  is  list- 
ed also  on  the  same  stream  of  water. 
James  had  130  acres  of  land  and 
Thomas  100.  At  this  time  in  LaRue 
County,  Thomas  Lincoln,  father  of  the 
newly  born  Abraham  Lincoln,  was  in 
possession  of  at  least  500  acres  of  land 
and  other  real  estate. 

Three  other  members  of  the  Rut- 
ledge family  over  21  years  of  age,  ap- 
pear on  the  tax  list  for  Henderson 
County  in  1811,  Robert,  John,  and 
William.  Each  year  up  until  1815  the 
names  of  James,  Thomas,  Robert,  and 
William  appear  with  regularity  but  no 
additional  land  holdings  are  recorded. 
It  was  during  this  period  on  January 
7,  1813,  that  Anne  Mayes  Rutledge 
was  born. 

On  October  18,  1813,  Thomas  Rut- 
ledge and  Sally,  his  wife,  sold  their 
land  located  next  to  James  McCready's 
place  which  started  a  new  migration 
of  the  Rutledges  and  their  neighbors 
to  the  west. 

The  family  of  James  Rutledge,  when 
Ann  was  a  babe  in  arms,  settled  in 
White  County,  Illinois,  at  a  point 
where  the  town  of  Enfield  is  now  lo- 
cated. By  the  year  1828  the  Rutledges 
and  their  relatives,  the  Camerons,  were 
acquiring  land  at  a  point  where  New 
Salem  later  grew  up. 

The  following  children  were  born  to 
James  and  Ann  Miller  Rutledge  as 
recorded  in  the  family  Bible.  Jane, 
John  M.,  Anna  Mayes,  Robert  B., 
Nancy  C,  Margaret  A.,  Mary  A.,  and 
Sally  F.  The  name  of  another  child 
born  in  1815  is  not  legible  on  the  pho- 
tographic copy  of  the  Bible  record. 

It  is  hoped  that  the  information 
gathered  here  may  stir  up  enough  in- 
terest in  the  lineage  of  Anna  Mayes 
Rutledge  to  make  it  possible  to  trace 
her  ancestry.  Until  some  duly  author- 
ized records  connect  her  with  the  fam- 
ily of  famous  Rutledges  in  South 
Carolina,  it  might  be  best  to  think  of 
her  as  a  daughter  of  a  humble  pio- 
neer, moving  in  about  the  same  social 
circle  as  Abraham  Lincoln,  who  said 
just  a  century  ago  this  year: 

"I  was  born  and  have  ever  remained, 
in  the  most  humble  walks  of  life.  I 
have  no  wealthy  or  popular  relations 
or  friends  to  recommend  me." 


ft 


A. 'C.  RICE,  President 

ALBERT    CRUM.  Vice-President 


FRANK    J.HEINL,Sec'y  5,  Cashier 
CHAS.  F.  LEACH,  Ass't  Cashier 


The  Farmers  Stale  Bank 
and  Trust  Company 


CAPITAL    $100,000.00 

Jacksonville,Illinois. 

Feb. 21, 1932 


Dr.Louis  A.Warren, 

Lincoln  Historical  Research  Foundation, 

Fort  Fayne , Indiana . 

Dear  Dr. Warren: 


In  your  jjinoon  Lore, No.  149,  I  note  list  of 
children  of  James  and  Ann  Miller  RuUedge  with  the  explanation 
that  the  name  of  another  child  born  in  1815  is  not  legible  on 
the  photostatic  copy  of  the  Bible  record. 

In  1835  and  earlier  , several  young  men  of 
Mew  Salem  were  students  at  Illinois  College, Jacksonvil 1 «, among 
thorn  David  H.Rutlegg©,who  later  had  a  large  law  practice  at 
Petersburg,  pincoln  antered  into  a  bond  with  David  Rutlsdge  and 
William  Green, January  31, 1833, for  one  hundred  anf  fifty  dollars, 
the  proceeds  of  which  apparently  enabled  Rutledg©  and  , perhaps,,. 
Green,  to  attend  college. £*,  Qaau<\\iaA/  &u*y ^**vL<+v*ts(/  <#*&  i*wu<£ftrt'<t 

The  following  letter  explains  itself: 


College  Hill, July  27,1835. 


To  Anna  Rutledge 


Valued  sister. So  far  as  I  can  understand  Miss 
Graves  will  teach  another  school  in  the  Diamond  Grove.  I  am 
glad  to  hear  that  you  have  a  notion  of  comeing  to  school, and 
I  earnestly  recommend  to  you  that  you  would  spare  no  time  from 
improving  your  education  and  mind.  Remember  that  Time  is  worth 

more  than  all  gold  therefore throw  away  none 

of  your  golden  moments.  I  add  no  more, but  &cH 


Anna  Rutledge. 


D.H.Rutledge. 


Apparently  David  H.  is  the  missing  nam©  of  the 
child  born  in  1815  as  he  would  have  been  about  twenty  when 
the  above  letter  was  writ ten, and  about  the  age  of  men  in  co 
here  at  that  time, or  even  younger. 


Sincerely  yours, 


liege 


OL*m<H#g  %U#*&  a<£jp**<i 


EMMA    LEE    WALTON 

GENEALOGICAL  RESEARCH 
747  Junior  Terrace 


Telephone  Bittersweet  3273 


CHICAGO 


Chicago,...Ma.r.Qh...l,....1932. 


Dear....lla.dam. 


In  reply  to  your  favor  of 

recent  .date i  beg  to  say  that  The  Newberry 

Library  contains  a  large  collection  of  books 
on  American  Local  History  and  Genealogy,  but 
that  at  present  it  has  no  facilities  for  fur- 
nishing genealogical  information  to  inquirers 
at  a  distance.  If  you  could  visit  the  Library, 
every  effort  would  be  made  to  further  and  as- 
sist your  investigations;  but  if  a  personal 
visit  is  impossible,  it  would  probably  be  best 
to  employ  a  competent  professional  genealogist 
who  has  access  to  the  materials  in  our  collec- 
tions. For  your  information  I  enclose  the  names 
and  addresses  of  several  such  persons;  but  the 
Library,  of  course,  assumes  no  reponsibility 
for  their  work. 

Very  truly  yours, 


...Ge.Q.r.ge....B......ILt.le.y., Li  br  ar  i  an 


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We  have  no  published  genealogy  of  the  Rutledge 
family,  only  what  might  be  contained  in  other 
books;  and  we  have  no  published  history  of 
Menard  County,  Illinois. 


Form  No.82.  11-16-28.  3c 


SOUTH  CAROLINA  LIGHT  ON  THE  ANN  MAYES   RUTLEDGE  FAMILY. 

In  the  year  1931,  Jewell  Mayes  (Richmond  and  Jefferson 
C4ty,  Missouri),  became  interested  in  the  fact  that  the  middle  name 
of  Ann  Rut ledge,  the  sainted  sweetheart  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  was 
"Mayes".  Mr.  Mayes  has  been  carrying  on  an  inquiry  into  the  genealogy 
of  the  Rutledge  family,  seeking  to  find  the  facts  about  their  South 
Carolina  origin. 

Director  Louis  A.  Warren  of  the  Lincoln  Historical  Re- 
search Foundation,  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana,  devoted  the  February  15,  1932, 
edition  of  his  "Lincoln  Lore"  to  the  Rutledge  family,  carrying  forward 
the  inquiry  into  the  colonial  origins  of  the  ancestors  of  Ann  Mayes 
Rutledge,  Mr.  Mayes  co-operating therein, 

Mr.  Mayes  took:  up  correspondence  with  Secretary  A.  S, 

Sal ley  of  the  "Historical  Commission  of  South  Carolina,  Columbia,  S.C," 

discussing  his  maternal  ancestor,  James  Stenhenson  (1744-1821)  of 

South  Carolina  and  the  ancestry  of  Ann  Mayes  Rutledge.  Under  dating  of 

February  23,  1932,  Mr.  Sal  ley  (eminent  historian  of  the  Carolinas) 

wrote  Mr.  Mayes,  as  follows: 

"FranK  Lever  wrote  me  about  you  some  time  ago  and  sent  me 
a  letter  whihh  you  sent  to  him.  As  South  Carolina  is  one  of  the  oldest 
states  in  the  Union  and  as  there  has  never  been  any  centralization  of 
records,  to  gather  family  history  in  this  state  requires  a  great  deal  of 
time,  research  and  travel  from  point  to  point  in  the  state. 

nIf  there  was  a  Stephenson  here  as  early  as  1744  he 
necessarily  liv^d  in  the  Low-Country  where  better  records  were  kept  than 
in  the  Up-Country,  Unfortunately  many  of  these  records  were  destroyed 
during  the  Revolution&nd  still  more  during  the  Confederate  War,  Soldiers 
are  no  respecters  of  the  most  sacred  things.  In  fact  they  seem  to  prefer 
to  destroy  cultural  articles  to  material  that  can  be  easily  replaced. 

"Dr.  Warren  is  eminently  correct  when  he  says  at  the  end 
of  his  paper  on  the  Rutledge  family  that  *it  is  best  to  think  of  her 
as  a  daughter  of  a  humble  pioneer,  moving  in  about  the  same  social 
circle  as  Abranam  Lincoln1.  The  famous  Rutledge  family  of  Charleston 
came  there  from  Ireland  about  1730.  At  that  time  there  was  no  people 
living  in  what  we  now  know  as  the  Up-Country  of  South  Carolina, 


"We  know  every  descendant  that  Joan  Rut  ledge,  the  founder 
of  the  family,  has.  He  came  with  an  older  brother,  Andrew  Rutledge,  who 
Harried  a  widow  Boone,,  He  was  a  lawyer.  His  younger  brother  was  a  doctor 
and  he  married  the  only  daug  hter  of  Mrs.  Boone,  his  sister-in-law.  Andrew 
had  no  children.  John  left  five  sons  and  two  daughters  and  every  descend- 
ant of  those  seven  is  accounted  for  in  our  genealogies.  They  were  all 
people  of  wealth,  education  and  culture  and  they  did  not  leave  South  Caro- 
lina until  the  country  had  begun  to  extend  after  the  Revolution,  when,here 
and  there,  a  well-known  descendant  of  the  name,  or  of  the  female  lines, 
would  go  to  some  other  section  of  the  country  to  assume  an  important  posi- 
tion socially  and  otherwise, 

"Members  of  the  family  from  remote  states  still  come  back  to 
Charleston  from  time  to  time  to  a+tend  the  St,  St.  Cecilia  balls,  so  well 
do  they  all  keep  up  their  connection  and  nowhere  in  the  United  States  or 
abroad  will  you  find  a  descendant  of  T)r.  John  Hut  ledge  of  any  name  who  is 
not  fully  maze   of  just  what  his  or  her  relationship  is  to  the  founder  of 
the  family  and  the  other  distinguished  members. 

"In  the  rich  and  prosperous  days  of  the  Low-Country  before  the 
Revolution  the  pioneer  section  of  the  province  was  referred  to  as  the  "Back 
Country",  The  people  living  in  the  "Back  Country"  were  very  much  like  the 
pioneers  of  any  other  section;  some  were  a  little  better  off  financially 
than  others  and  some  were  better  off  culturally  than  others  and  some  were 
better  off  socially  than  others,  but  such  wide  differences  as  existed  in 
the  low  Country  did  not  exist  in  the  f,Back  Country".  At  the  time  of  the 
Revolution  there  were  several  families  of  Rut  ledges  who  lived  in  the  "Back 
Country"  and  some  of  them  were  soldiers  in  the  Revolution  and  one  was  named 
Edward,  who  could  not  write  his  name.  He  had  a  brother  named  John  who  could 
write  his  name. 

much 
"We  have  been/harassed  for  many  years  by  people  who  want  to 
join  the  D.A.R.  who  are  descended  from  these  two  brothers  who  set  up  cyi$.m 
for  them  to  the  services  of  the  distinguished  John  and  Edward,  of  Charles 
Town,  These  two  brothers  lived  in  the  northeast  section  of  the  state  and 
some  of  their  descendants  are  there  today.  There  have  never  been  any  pro- 
fessional men  among  them  or  men  occupying  high  political  position.  They 
are  small  farmers  and  small  merchants  today. 

"In  the  northwest  corner  of  the  state,  among  the  foot  hills, 
there  was  another  family  of  Rut  ledges  who  have  never  teen  as  important 
even  jfnas  the  family  of  the  two  brothers  I  have  just  described, 

"On  one  occasion  many  years  ago  old  Dr.  Pinckney  of  Charles- 
ton, who  had  married  a  Rutledge,  was  journeying  to  the  mountains  with  his 
wife.  The  stage  which  they  were  traveling  on  was  drawn  by  four  horses 
and  the  driver's  name  was  Rutledge.  When  Mrs.  Pinckney  became  aware  of  the 
name  of  their  coachman  she  asked  the  doctor  with  some  indignation  where 
that  man  got  ^hename  of  Rutledge.  The  doctor  admitted  he  did  not  know  but 
declared  that  he  could  do  what  no  other  Rutledge  he  had  ever  seen  could  do, 
drive  four  horses  on  a  mountain  road.  That  was  probably  the  greatest 
accomplishment  of  any  of  those  'hill-billy1  Rut  ledges — and  if  Ann  Rutledge, 
who  is  alleged  to  have  been  a  sweetheart  of  Lincoln's,  came  from  any  South 
Carolina  family  of  Rutledges  it  was  most  likely  the  last  family  described, 
as  they  were  close  enough  to  Kentucky  to  migrate  over  the  mountains,  a 
thing  which  our  mountain  people  frequently  did. 


^ 


"The  Rut ledges  from  the  northeast  section  of  the  ft  ate 
migrated  toward  the  southwest,  as  a  general  rule,  and  then  out  into 
the  great  west, 

"There  is  one  source  of  Hanks  information,  however,  that 
is  side-stepped  by  those  people  who  are  looking  for  "Lincoln  lore". 
There  was  a  large  family  of  Hankses  in  the  horthwest  corner  of  this 
state,  and  many  of  them  are  still  there—and  a  proper  investigation  of 
records  in  that  section  will  conelusively  show  that  Nancy  Hanks  was 
horn  there  and  that  her  mother  Lucy  and  other  members  of  her  immediate 
family  left  that  section  and  went  to  Kentucky, 

"The  fact  is  sustained  by  official  records  and  it  is  a 
fact  which  has  given  rise  to  an  erroneous  tradition,  which  is  absolutely 
ridiculous,  that  John  C.  Calhoun  was  the  father  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  The 
fact  is  that  Calhoun  was  a  child  at  the  time  that  Nancy's  mother  took 
her  baby  to  Kentucky — and  I  don't  suppose  he  had  ever  seen  her  or  any 
Hanks  until  he  grew  up  and  began  practicing  law  in  a  neighboring 
district* 

MI  am  sorry  I  have  nothing  definite  with  which  to  help  you, 
but  my  time  is  almost  fully  occupied  with  official  duties. 

Yours  very  truly, 
(Signed),       A.  S,  SALLE* .   ■ 


(By  Jewell  Mayes,  Jefferson  City,  Mo*) 

IMPORTANT  HISTORICAL  DATA  ON  THE  RUTLEDGE  FAMILY. 
For  some  unexplained  reason*  I  have  long  been-^ 

&)  Interested 


&Mm?€vm:w&jm€rA^s;m**  *'#••:«  ■•f-'jummn  f^ar**  * 


ini&j^  data  on  the  love  affairs  of  the  martyr-president ,  Abraham 
Llncoiyfei— especially  as  to  Msrfian^e%  Ann  Mayes  Rutledge. 

The  middle  name  started  iB^researeh,  to  prove  the 
1 ayes  v  presumpt/ion  that  Ann  Mayes  Eutldge  had  a  4i3m  of  Mayes=TK^HA^ 
blood  in  her  veinse  jfeading,  study  and  correspondence  brought  not  a 
clew— nothing  to  be  found  for  months  94&Wd&&/  even  ^Tnto  years*  lY4Arfsr~ 


r^ife 


^sotsight  hi8torie7%faft  authorities ,  in  standard  authors— tgJJ  nothing 
avall©&4  Some  tooks feast  doujft  on  the  existence  of  a  Lincoln    ,_• 


sweetheart  by  the  name  of  Ann  Rutledge*  although  Ann  was  ./the  one  y 

In  the  life  of  'K 

great  and  be^^^gl  l<ove/mi Abraham  Lincoln* 

jL  to  Secretary  A.   S6  Sal  ley/ of  the  Sounth  Carolina  Historical 

Commission,  I  turned,  because  Mr.  Salley  is  one  of  the  true  researchers 

o  * 

of  the  chr/nicles  of  the  Southland*  Mr,  galley  furnished  me  with 

'  a 

exact  data  on  Edward  Rutledge,  Signer  of  the  Deciration  of  Independence, 

convincing  me  that  MM:^M    Ann  Mayes  Ru^ledge{  daughter  James  and 

o 

Ann  Miller  Rutledge)  did  not  M^MM^/  descend  from  the  artistleratic 


rtist£crai 
UiUUls 


Rutledge  family  of  South  Carolina,  a  line  with  a  perfect  &k£4pM/& 
registry  of  blood  descendants,  all  by  name* 

Then  I  turned  to  the  Salem-Bloomingtoa-Springfield 
areas  of  Illinois,  seeking  correspondents  for  direct  traditions, 
local  records  and  Lincoln  information.  Comparatively  early  in  this 
garne^  I  got  into  touch  with  Dr*  Louis  A*  farren,  Director  of.  the  Lincoln 
Historical  Research  Foundation,  endowed  by  the  Lincoln  National  Life 
Insurance  Company,  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana*  Dr.  Warren  suggested  ever  so 
many  different  persons.,  to  all  of  whom  I  wrote  for  tracks  in  myfyt&fal 
quest*Sy-J«  L„  Perrin,  Bellville,  Ill(jf, ,  historian  and  lawyer,  ^§®^ 
helped  me*   Dr.  *arren,  on  April  29,1933,  suggested  that  I  write  to 
Milo  Custer j,  Bloomlngton,  111.,  who,  some  years  ago,  issued  two 
booklets  dealing  wholly  or  ir,  part  with  the  t  lineage  of  the  Rutledge 


'  9 


family,  the  line  of  Ann  Mayes  Rutl^edge.     I  wrote  to  Mil©  Custe^0j(/xi 

May  3,1932,  %$  get/  reply  that  he  had*  sold  the  last  copy  (other  than  his 

personal  copy)  of  "Rut ledge  family  !tecords,1922. "    Be  had  a  sp«are 

copy  of  his  other  booklet,     Thomas  P.  Beep,  Petersburg,  Wflll,, 

an  elderly  man  remembering  much  ttimSLiis&Mi&f  Llncolnia,  gave  me  cuty*^ 

See  "Lincoln  Lore",  issue  of  Feb,  15,1932,  No.   149,  devoted 
new  data.flHxxKBxxBas2QUESEH3B2xilnxgxa^ 


to  ma  data  on  Ann,  Mayes  Hutledge,  printed  sheet  attached:  hereto* 
c~-"       For  the  MM&r  benefit  of  those  who  axe  not  conversant  i 


§  detials,  let  it  be  here  mentioned  that  Miss  Jane  E.  Hamond, 
Schaller,  Iowa,  said  in  a  letter  to  J.L,  Perrin  that  she  had  loaned  to 

Oi  '  J,' 

the  Decatur  Library  4  K|rkha®ss  ^amm^raXg,  bearing  in  the  handwriting  of 

Abraham  Lincoln,  the  words  "Ann  Hutledge  is  now  learning  Grammar*" 
in  1925  S 

a  book  given/by  Wa  W*  Hut  ledge ,  son  of  Robert ,  who  was  a  brother  of 

Ann,  This  .rf/  book  was  to  go  to  the  Library  of  Congress ,  so  stated 

Miss  Hamond*  The  following  is  also  in  Lincoln's  handwriting;  "To  Ann 
Hutledge  by  her  friend  Abraham  Lincoln, "   /0^M~y 

Miss  Hamond  gives  the  following '"data,  which  says  she 

spent  a  year  in  veriffyiag: 

7 

"  Ann  Mayes  Hutledge,  third  child  of  James  and  Mary  Aim 
>er) 

Hutledge,  was  born  January  7,  1813,  died  August  25,1835*  Mary 

^mi  (Miller)  Hutledge,  Ann's  mother,  was  born,  October  21,1787,  died 

December  26,1878,  and  she  had  married  James  Rut  ledge,  January  25,1808, 

in  Henderson  County,  Kentucky,  James  Hutledge  was  born,Mayll,178li  died 


December  3.183 


«ZC  t§ 


•e  is  a  Bible  in  the  possession  fimfl   of  Wilma  Frances 

Minor  (see  MH^MiiiiHffiii^ktl antic  M0nthly,  Boston,  January  and 

February,  1929)  with  the  endorsement,  "New  galeslm— 1834",  with  the 

following  i  in  Abraham  Lincoln's  handwriting  on  the  opposite  page \ 

f "Presented  to  Me  by  Ann  Mayes  Hutledge,  that  I  may  %ad  and  Subdue 

(obscure  here)  My  Mind  to  Its  Valued  teachings . " 

in 
Ann  Mayes  Hutledge  was  first  buried  M  the  old  Concord 

Cemetery,  about  a  mile  from  the  house  on  the  Cameron  farm  where  the 
James  Rutledge  family  were  living  tf  when  she  and  her  father  died  flf|k  %*) 


she  and  her  father  both  dying  in  the  month  of  December, 1835.  If  I 

mistake  not  3,  they  bot$'  died  of  the  sanae  "or  similar  fever/  .  Many  years 

later j  Aan^s  remains  were  disinterred  and  reburied  in  $^fi£440akland 

Geiastery,  Petersburg ,  Illinois. 

On  July  14,1933,  Dr.  Louis  A«  farren.of  the  LineolnHistorieal 

$4ilfrli$A/'Be&eaidi  Foundation/...'^/,  loaned  me  the  out-of-print  booklet, 

"Rutledge  Family  Records, n  which,  because  of  the  ^rareness  of  iii  this 

data*  is  quoted  in  full,  as  follows: 

"RUTLEDGE  FAMILY  RECORDS.  •« 

'"Complied  and  Published,  1923,  by  Milo  Ouster,  Bloomlngton, 

Illinois. «  I    ; 

•      ;    .     /     I 

•((©ie  text  will  be  reproduced  with  any  existing  errors  as 


to  typography,  showing    by  periods  the  spots  of  missing  data,  using  no 

quotation  maris  except  as  same  may  appear  in  the  original  copy*  The 

Officer 
following  photographs  are  reproduced  in  the  booklet s  Thomas,  Rutledge  of 

LeBoy^  111.,  born  1805,  died  1866;  Thomas  Officer  Rutledge  of  Heyworth, 

- 
111.,  born  1806,  died  1888;  Sarah  M.  Rutledge,  wife  of  Thomas  OJ  Rutledge/ 

of  Leroy,  111.,  born  1813,  died  1868;  Cynthia  (Rutledge)  t  Rutledge,  wife 

of  Thomas  o);  Rutledge  of  H@ywood,  Hi,  born  1812,  died  1883;  Jane  (Rutledge) 

Dickersonj,  $  wife  of  Michael  Dickerson,  born  1803$, died  1874;  James 

RutlMe^ledge  of/fc&LeBoy,  111.,  born  1808,  died  1863;Robert  H.  Rutledge, 

born  1810,  died  1891;  Sarah  L«   (Rutledge)  Martin,  daughter  of    Robert  H. 

Rutledge,  born  1833,  died  1919;) 

((((...  . .  *, .. Begin  at  top  of    1st  page  of  type,  first  after 

title  page,  double  spaced^)))) 

RUTLEDGE. 


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3wm  23  #  1933 


Mrs.  foa  Barker 
1.  B.  #1 
Ctoodson,  Missouri 

My  dear  !&•*•  Bartoert 

It  would  fee  very  difficult  for  ms  to  detera&ne 
whether  or  not  we  would  be  Interested  In  your  selection 
of  curios  until  we  have  more  detail ■  about  the  letters 
especially.     I  do  not  think  we  would  be  interested  in 
any  of  the  other  items,  but  if  the  correspondence  in  con- 
nect ion.  with  Jam  Butledge  throws  any  light  on  her  relation- 
ship with  Ibiahjeg  Lincoln,  we  sight  like  to  have  this. 

If  you  tUl  giwe  me  the  dates  of  the  letters, 
by  wham  and  to  whom  they  were  written,  and  also  the  price 

you  are  asking  for  the®,  it  will  help  us  to  determine 
whether  or  not  we  care  to  acquire  the». 

Tery  sincerely  yoors. 


Street or 
^Wj^  Lincoln  Historical  lesesrch  Foundation 


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June  11,  1934. 
Dr.  Louis  A,  Warren, 

Lincoln  national  Life  Foundations 
Ft.  Wayne,  Ind. 

My  dear  Dr.  Warren: 

In  "Lincoln  Lore"  No. 268,  for  May  28,1934 
I  notice  that  you  discuss  the  burial  places  of  the  Lincolns. 
This  item  will  be  a  little  to  one  side  but  I  know  you  will 
be  glad  for  the  information: 

MOTHER  OF  ANiT  RUTLKD(33:  — She  later  re-married 
and  I  do  not  at  this  moment  recall  ber  name,  but  she  moved  to 
Iowa  and  settled  in  VanBuren  county,  near  Birmingham  and  about 
10  miles  from  Fairfield.  She  is  buried  in  a  country  cemetery 
adjoining  a  little  Methodist  church  about  half  way  between 
Fairfield  and  Birmingham,  but  not  on  the  main  road.  It  is  a 
mile  or  two  west  of  the  main  notth  and  south  road.  The  grave 
is  makK&  marked  with  a  monument  stating  that  she  is  the  mother 
of  Ann  Rutlsedge. 

That  much  information,  I  thought  you  would  like 
and  I  might  look  up  and  find  a  few  more  details  if  you  would  care 
for  it, -^-unless  you  already  have  it. 


Lincoln  Lore,  I  am 


Again  thanking  you  for  the  copies  of 
i  C 
5inc^re\ly^  yoursi__ 

Dean  ^aylor. 


June  19,  1934 


Mr.  Bean  Taylor 
Fairfield  Daily  Ledger 
Fairfield,  lorn 

Dear  Sir; 

Thank  you  very  much  for  the  information 
about  the  mother  of  Ann  Bntledge,  which  comes  to  me 
in  the  letter  I  find  on  my  desk  after  the  return  from 
the  Lincoln  pilgrimage. 

On  Friday  I  stood  at  Aim  Butledge*s  grave 
and  I  am  very  glad  to  have  information  as  to  the 
location  of  her  mother's  grave.  This  will  add  some- 
thing to  the  Bntledge  story.  Thank  you  very  much  for 
your  interest. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 


LAW:LH  Director 


KINSHIP  TO  LINCOLN 
TRACED  BY  WOMAN 




Family  trees  often  boast  some  im- 
portant personage  on  their  branches 
but  there  are  few  which  can  claim 
Abraham  Lincoln.  Mrs.  May  Stum, 
2620  North  Illinois  street,  however, 
does  not  have  to  go  back  far  to  trace 
her  relationship  to  the  Civil  War 
President. 

Lucinda  Watkins,  Mrs.  Stum's 
grandmother,  was  a  third  cousin. 
Mrs.  Stum  recalls  stories  hec  grand- 
mother  told   her   about   Lincoln's   ar- 


rival  in  Salem  when  he  was  friend- 
less and  had  no  place  to  stay.  The 
Watkinses  gave  him  shelter  in  their 
humble  home  for  the  night.  When 
Lincoln  had  a  home  of  his  own  and 
the  Watkinses  were  building  a  new 
dwelling,  he  gave  them  bricks  from 
his  mill,  which  were  used  in  building 
the  basement.  .Earnest  young  Abe 
also  was  generous  in  supplying  his 
neighbors  with  books  and  the  Wat- 
kinses had  many  novels  and  text 
books  which  the  President  gave 
them. 

Mrs.  Stum's  grandmother  disproved 
the  belief  that  Anne  Rutledge  died 
before  the  Civil  War,  for  she  and 
Anne  both  worked  as  nurses  in  the 
camps.  Mrs.  Watkins  used  to  tell 
her  grandchildren  that  the  onetime 
sweetheart  of  Lincoln  died  on  her 
wedding  day  of  a  fever  caught  from 
taking  care  of  the  sick. 

Not  only  is  Mrs.  Stum  a  relative 
of  the  President,  but  she  is  also  a 
second  cousin  of  Anne  Rutledge, 
who  was  her  paternal  grandmother's 
sister.  Her  name  was  Elizabeth  Pot- 
ter, whose  daughter,  Jane  Ship,  was 
named  by  the  President.  Other  rela- 
tives of  Mrs.  Stum  are  now  living  in 
Springfield,    111. 


-ruit  ledge,  Ann. 


Great,    great   neice  of  Ann  xtutledse 


r»INCETON.  IND..  DEMOOTIf 
Saturday,  July  10,  19,37 


^tagFcareer  of  her 


Ann   Kutlecjge 

A  namesake  and  kin  of  Abraham 
Lincoln's  sweetheaK  Ann  Rutledge 
of  Petersburg,  111.,  soon  may  launch 
a  stage  career.  She  was  given  a  chance 
following  her  performance  in  a  recent 
Lincoln  pageant  at  New  Salem  111 
in  which  the  18-year-old  girl  played 
the  role  of  her  great-great  aunt. 
• —  '•—     —    ...  —Central  Press.  | 


HIS  LOVE  LIVES  AGAIN 


Lincoln's  darling  lives  again  in  the  person  of  her  great-grandniece.  The  great  love  in  the  life  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  his  romance 
ith  Ann  Rutledge  which  ended  in  her  tragic  death  from  typhoid  fever  in  1835,  will  be  reenacted  in  the  forthcoming  WPA 
leater  project,  "Prologue  to  Glory."  The  lovely  present-day  Ann  (that's  her  name  also)  seeks  inspiration  for  the  part  in  the 
resence  of  a  statue  of  the  Emancipator,  and,  in  insert  above,  makes-up  for  a  rehearsal.       (I.N.P.) 


Abe  Lincoln's  Ann  R] 

And  Her  Beautiful 
«? 

Tragic    Love    Affair    Was 
Almost    Ruinous    to 

Emancipator  y        '/J 


Unselfish  humanitarian  though  he 
was,  Abraham  Lincoln's  career  was 
almost  wrecked  when  he  was  twen- 
ty-six by  a  tragic  love  affair  with 
Ann  Rutledge.  The  incident  was 
recently  recalled  by  the  dedication 
of  a  new  railroad  train,  the  "Ann 
Rutledge,"  in  which  a  prominent 
role  was  taken  by  the  great  grand- 
niece  and  namesake  of  this  pioneer 
belle. 

Today's  Ann  Rutledge,  beauteous 
as  her  famous  ancestor,  is  a  stage 
actress.  She  comes  from  a  family 
dating  back  to  South  Carolina  and 
the  Revolutionary  war,  one  of  whom 
signed  the  Declaration  of  Indepen- 
dence. 

Lincoln's  Ann  Rutledge  was  the 
daughter  of  a  tavern  keeper  in  New 
Salem,  111.,  whose  love  the  bashful 
and  awkward  young  politician 
sought  four  years.  So  inferior  did 
he  feel  that  Lincoln  at  one  time 
ceased  pursuing  her  and  left  for 
Vandalia,  the  Illinois  state  capital. 

During  his  absence  Ann  was  be- 
trothed to  John  McNeil,  a  success- 
ful New  Salem  storekeeper  whose 
shady  past  was  suspected  by  Lin- 
coln, since  the  young  lawyer  had 
handled  papers  for  McNeil  showing 
that  his  real  name  was  McNamar. 
McNeil  left  New  Salem  for  New 
York,  with  the  understanding  that 
he  would  soon  return  and  claim  his 
bride.  Infrequent  letters  brought 
excuses  and  John  McNeil  did  not 
return. 

Ann  Rutledge  sought  a  refuge  and 


w 


The  modern  Ann  Rutledge  is  a 
beauteous  young  stage  actress, 
shown  here  as  she  broke  a  christen- 
ing bottle  over  the  new  railroad 
train  named  after  her  famous  an- 
cestor, the  Ann  Rutledge  whom 
Abraham  Lincoln  loved. 


she  found  it  in  Lincoln,  who  re- 
turned to  New  Salem  in  the  spring 
of  1835.  At  that  time  Lincoln  was 
twenty-six  and  Ann  twenty-two. 
Freed  from  her  betrothal  to  Mc- 
Neil, she  planned  to  marry  Lincoln 
and  help  him  climb  to  prominence. 

But  at  the  end  of  a  happy  summer 
she  was  stricken  with  malaria.  On 
her  death  bed  in  the  log  cabin  on 
Sand  Ridge  farm,  Lincoln  and  Ann 
spent  a  last  hour  togother.  Two 
days  later  she  passed  away. 


ANN  RUT  LEDGE'S 
GRANDNIECE  TO 
CHRISTEN  TRAIN 

The  new  Alton  railroad  streamlined 
train,  the  Ann  Rutledge,  will  be  chris- 
tened at  8:30  Monday  morning  by  an- 
other Ann  Rutledge,  the  grandnieee 
of   the   sweetheart   of   Abraham   Lin- 

I  coin    for    whom    the    streamliner    is 

I  named.  Miss  Rutledge  will  break  over 
the  forepart  of  the  locomotive  a  bot- 
tle containing  water  from  the  recon- 
structed   Rutledge    tavern    in    New 

I  Salem,  111. 

1  ,  Miss  Rutledge,  who  is  an  actress, 
and  John  Huston,  son  of  the  actor, 
Walter  Huston,  will  enact  a  short 
dramatization  recalling  Lincoln's 
courtship  of  Miss  Rutledge. 

I  The  streamliner  will  leave  Chicago 
at  9  a.  m.  Chicago  time  and  will  ar- 
rive in  St.  Louis  at  1:20  p.  m.  cen- 
tral time  daily  starting  Monday.*  On 
its  return  trip  it  will  leave  St.  Louis 
at  4:30  p.  m.  central  time  and  arrive 
in  Chicago  at  10:25  p.  m.  Chicago 
'ime. 


Feb.   12,   1938 


i    \   v-v  \      ,  '.    '■ 


WOMEN 


Ann  Rutledge,  1938  « 

A  little  over  100  years  ago,  a  brief 
friendship  with  a  tall,  gawky  law- 
student  won  a  lasting  role  in  history 
for  the  flaxen-haired  daughter  of  a 
New  Salem,  111.,  tavern-keeper.  She 
became  the  heroine  of  a  tender  real- 
life  romance  whose  hero  was  youthful 
Abraham  Lincoln.  She  was  Ann  Rut- 
ledge. 

Last  week  another  Ann  Rutledge 
was  preparing  for  her  own  role  as 
Lincoln's  sweetheart.  From  Ottumwa, 
Iowa,  only  about  150  miles  from  New 
Salem  where  the  law-student  had 
once  accompanied  the  first  Ann  to 
quilting  bees,  the  present  Ann  Rut- 
ledge  had  gone  to  New  York  City  to 
rehearse  the  part  of  her  great-great- 
aunt  in  Prologue  to  Glory,  a  forthcom- 
ing WPA  Theater  Project  production. 

Acting  the  part  of  her  flaxen-haired 
forebear  will  be  no  new  experience  for 
dark-haired,  pretty  18-year-old  Ann. 
Last  year  when  the  citizens  of  New 
Salem  were  planning  a  Lincoln  pag- 
eant, they  wrote  to  her  grandmother 
for  information.  Grandma  Rutledge 
not  only  told  them  about  the  Ann  who 
died  in  1835  at  the  height  of  her  ro- 
mance with  Lincoln,  but  she  also  told 
them  about  the  modern  Ann  who  was 
very  much  alive  over  in  Ottumwa. 
So  Ann,  the  great-grandniece,  appear- 
ed in  the  pageant. 

When  the  pageant  closed  last  sum- 
mer, the  WPA  immediately  hired  Ann 
to  play  the  role  of  her  ancestor  once 
more— this  time  in  a  Chicago  produc- 
tion of  another  play  about  Lincoln 
called  Lonely  Man.  When  the  show 
closed,  Ann  decided  to  have  a  try  at 
college.  Appropriately  enough  she 
chose  Lincoln  Memorial  University  at 
Harrogate,  Tenn.,  but  left  when  the 
WPA  invited  her  to  New  York  for 
Prologue  to  Glory. 

Not  only  has  her  name  V£pn  for  her 
a  place  on  the  stage,  but  last  July  it 
brought  her  the  privilege  of  breaking 
a  bottle  of  water  over  the  nose  of  the 
new  Alton  streamline  train,  "The  Ann 
Rutledge,"  just  before  it  started  on 
its  first  run  between  Chicago  and  St. 
Louis.  A  month  ago  the  Port  of  New 
York  Authority  sent  her  a  gold  em- 
blazoned invitation  to  help  dedicate 
the  new  Lincoln  tunnel  that  runs 
under  the  Hudson  between  the  New 
York  and  New  Jersey  Shores. 


Ann   Rutledge   Plays 


Kin   of   Lincoln's   Ann 


When  the  Dames  of  th£  Loyal  Legion  held  their  an- 
nual Lincoln  Day  breakfast  in  Washington,  one  of  the 
honor  guests  was  Ann  Rutledge,  left.  She  is  the  great- 
great  grandniece  of  the  original  Ann  Rutledge  reputed  to 
have  been  the  sweetheart  of  Lincoln.  Shown  with  her  is 
Princess  Cantacuzene,  granddaughter  of  President  Grant. 


Ann  Rutledge  Lives  Again 


THE  NEWS-SENTINEL,  FORT  WAYNE.  INDIANA 


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The  great  love  in  the 
life  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, his  romance  with 
Ann  Rutledge,  will  be 
re-enacted  in  a  forth- 
coming New  York 
production,  with  a  de- 
scendant of  the  origi- 
nal Ann  in  the  role  of 
Lincoln's  darling.  She 
is  Ann  Rutledge,  of 
Ottumwa,  la.,  great 
grand-niece  of  the  girl 
whom  Lincoln  loved 
and  lost.  The  pictures 
on  this  page  will  get 
you  better  acquainted 
with  the  Ann  Rutledge 
of  today.  (Interna- 
tional News  Photos.) 


Here  is  Ann  before  the  make-up  table 
preparing  for  the  role  of  her  zreai 
grand-aunt.  ^        B    at 


Mary  Ann  Rutiedge  gave  birth  to  the 
legendary  Ann  in  Kentucky  on  January  7, 
1813.  When  Ann  was  19,  Lincoln  fell  in 
love  with  her. 


The  present-day  Ann  Rutiedge,  who  bears 
a  striking  resemblance  to  her  beautiful  name- 
sake, is  pictured  with  her  father,  Donald  M. 
Rutiedge. 


LINCOLN'S  SWEETHEART  LIVES  AGAIN 
IN  THE  PERSON  OF  HER  GRAND-NIECE 


Ann's  charm  is  said  to  duplicate  that  of  her  grand-aunt,  who  died  in  New  Salem,  III.,  on 
August  25,   1835,  a  few  hours  after  "Honest  Abe"  had  embraced  her  for  the  last  time. 


Internationa!  Photos 


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Ann  re-enacts  the  century-old  romance 
whose  tragic  climax  nearly  killed  Lincoln. 
My  heart  is  buried  in  her  grave,"  he  said. 

A  INQUIRER,  FEBRUARY  12.  1939 


In  quaint  costume,  Ann  made  a  big  hit  in 
"Prologue  to  Glory,"  enacting  the  original 
Ann,  shown  being  courted  by  Lincoln. 


John     Rutledge     was    the 

brother  of  Ann  Rutledge,  the 
girl  that  Abraham  Lincoln 
loved  and  lost. 


Nephew  of  the  tragic  Ann  whose 
death  broke  Lincoln's  heart  was  Ed- 
ward Rutledge,  grandfather  of  the 
modern  Ann. 


LINCOLN'S  BIRTHDAY  brought  to- 
gether in  Washington  Miss  Ann  Rutledge 
(in  center),  great-great-grandniece  of  Lin- 
coln's sweetheart,  and  Madam  Cantacu- 


zene,  granddaughter  of  President  U.  S. 
Grant  (at  right).  At  left  is  Mrs.  Mary 
Logan  Tucker,  president  of  the  Loyal 
Legion. 

—Pteturt  from  International  New*  Photograph  Service,  .„ 


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Mrs.  0.  F.  Deans 

Alma,  Kansas 

My  dear  Mrs.  Bean  si 

Enclosed  yon  will  please  find  a  "bulletin 
which  I  edited  some  years  ago  giving  a  little 
history  of  the  &itledge.v  family. 

It  should  be  observed  that  the  story  of 
Ann  Eutledge  as  far  as  we  know  began  in  Henderson 
County,  Kentucky,  and  I  have  never  as  yet  been  able 
to  find  time  to  try  and  trace  back  her  ancestry 
through  the  Oarolinas  to  Virginia,  which  I  think 
can  eventually  be  done  by  those  w&o  have  time  to 
do  so* 

I  hope  the  enclosed  bulletin  will  help 
you  in  your  work, 

7ery   traly  yours,  . 


MBS  Director 


Dr • War r  en  Le  wi  s , I o  wa 

Lincoln  Life  Foundation.  Nov. 7,1936 

Ft. Wayne, Indiana. 

Bear   Sir: 

l/f?«Zar^i   C» Spears  of  Bedford  Bills  F.Y.   paid  ine  a 
visit   eoms  time  back, and  bad   »?ith  him  copies  of  Lincoln  Lore.    He  says 
this  is  peolished  by  your  company,  and  I   am   wondering  what  I   have  to   do 
to  get  on  your  mailing  list. 

I   have  done  considerable  ^research  on  Lincoln, along  with 
my  family  record  research.    I   have  worked  for   a  good  many  years  on  the 
records  of  the  Berry  and  Hutledge  families  of  early  Illinois. 

John  JfcyrieerfRutladge  the  father  of  Ann  of  Lincoln  fame 
was  also   tfc®  father  of  Jane  Officer  Rutledge,TMy  great-grand-mother.7 

Samuel  Berry  who   was  the  father  of  Jaffies  Bsrry(who  married 
Jans  Officer  Rutledgc)    was  my  great-great-gran d-f ather  on  ths  Berry  side* 
I  probably  Lavs  more  Hutledge  und.  Berry  records  than   an£  other  living 
person. 

If   1   have  records  that  would  be  of  use  to   you, in  your 
work  I  would   fca  glad  tc   give   then  to  you. 


J. Frank  Berry 
Lewis, Iowa. 


Yours  very  truly        _^— - 


November  10,  1938 


Mr.  J.  frank  Berry 
Lewis,  Iowa 

My  dear  Mr.  Berry: 

We  are  pleased  to  learn  cf  your  Interest 
In  the  Barry  family  as  we  have  had  mad©  Inquiries 
about  tills  interesting  group  which  were  so  closely 
associated  with  the  Llncolns  in  Hew  Salem. 

We  would  Indeed  he  pleased  to  hare  any 
information  which  is  available  on  this  family  and 
If  there  are  items  which  you  might  loan  us  until        \ 
copies  are  made  we  would  he  pleased  indeed  to 
veturn  them. 

We  have  been  able  to  gather  soma  material 
on  the  Rutledge  family  hut  It  too  would  he  very 
desirable  for  our  files  as  we  are  constantly  required 
to  submit  information  about  the  people  from  whom 
Ann  Rut  ledge  decended. 

We  will    be  very  happy  Indeed  to  enclose 
copies  of  Lincoln  Lore,  such  back  numbers  as  are 
available.    We  hope  you  will  enjoy  receiving  them 
and  they  are  sent  to  you  gratis. 

Very  truly  yours, 


IAWrlW  Direct  or 

L.A.Warren 


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Br«Louis  ^.tarran  Lewis, Iowa 

Fort  Wayne, lad.  Ho¥,21s193S 

Deii*  Mr  •Warrens 

I  was  very  glad  to  reciev©  your  latter  of  Hov.lQ^&nd 
wish  to  thank  you  very  ma  ©a  for  the  copies  of  Lincoln  Lore. 

As  to  the  records  os  the  Berry  and  Rutledge  families 
which  you  say  yon  would  pleased  to  have*  I will  say  I  hardly  know 
what  to  ©end  you.  Inclosed  you  will  find  a  few  copies  of  my  record*, 
I  have  hundred®  ©f  sheets  of  similar  records  on  the  different  families. 
Also  many  old  stor/ies  that  have  "been  handed  down  to  me, 

■ 

In  my  work  on  the  records  I  have  gathered  many  old 
picture®  of  the  two  families*     I  have  pictures  of  Samuel  Berry  and 
wifeeffhat  I  am  sure  is  James  Butledge  and  wife!  This  picture  ia 
very  much  in  dispute,, "but  I  em  ia  hope®  that  I  will  soon  have  the 
doubts  cleared  up.  James  Kutledge  died  ia  $$$  1S35  ao  you  see  #### 
it  would  he  impossible  to  hav©  a  photograph  of  him. 

The  old  picture®  of  James  Butledge  and  wife  I  found 
in  a  teoxgWith  a  aomber  of  other  old  pictures  which  belonged  to 
a  great  uncle,   This  uncle  was  ninety  three  or  theeeabout  when  ha  died 
and  I  found  ih®€©  pictures  in  a  ©era  loft  about  20  years  of ter  his 
death. 

Tfrie  uncle  was  the  son  of  James  Berry  and  Jane  Officer 
(Rutledge) Berry.  Jane  Officer  CHutl edge)  Berry  was  the  oldest  child  of 
John  James  Rutl  edge  and  Mary  Ann(Miller)  Butledge.     Samuel  Campbell 
Berry  Cmy  grandfather)   was  the  oldest  child  of  James  and  Jane  0 .Berry. 

This  old  picture  was  in  a  white  frame  about  S  x  12  inches 
with  individual  pictures  of  the  man  and  women  mounted  side  by  side. 
The  woman  from  comparison®  I  have  made  I  am  sure  is  Mary  Ann  (Miller) 


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Rutledge.  Who  •!«•  then  could  the  man  be  but  ^©hn  James  Rutledge 

her  husbamdf 

low  here  is  the  way  I  ha¥e  this  pictur®  figured  out. 

In  the  picture  of  the  women  there  i@  ell  kinds  of  detail*  in  that  if 

the  man  there  la  hardly  any.  In  the  woman's  if  you  will  look  oerefully 

you  will  see, what  looks  like  lines  made  by  old  homespun  cloth  in  the 

background*  In  that  of  the  man's  you  will  see  these  same  lines  hut 

rather  than  being  in  the  backgrounds you  wtti— eee  they  run  across  the 

face  a®  well  as  the  background* 

This  is  my  answer  to  this  riddle*  I  beliewe  James  But! edge 

had  a  painting  made  of  himself  before  death*  After  his  death  the 

painting 
family  ha¥ing  this  ######  of  their  father  wished  to  haw®  one  of  their 

father  and  mother  togather,so  had  their  mother's  picture  taken, and 

then  had  the  painting  photographed  and  mounted  the  resulting  pictures 

side  by  side* 

From  the  way  I  have  this  figured  there  must  have  been 

only  one  of  these  old  pictures, where  they  were  mounted  side  by  aide* 

heard  from 

I  have  contacted  all  the  known  relative®  and  have  never  ####  ###      one 


who  has  ever  seen  the  piettUn  before. 

I  am  sending  you  a  copy  of  these  pictures, also  on®  of 

a  known  picture  of  Mary  Ann   (Miller) Rutledge, perhaps  you  can  help  m® 
to  solve  this  riddl®.   The  only  ©nee  I  have  printed  at  the  present 
time  are  some  I  have  used  for  compari sons , but  they  will  b©  good  for 
your  comparisons  also*  If  after  your  examination, you  wi©h  better 
prints  of  these  people^!  will  have  them  made  for  you* 

I  would  be  very  glad  to  have  the  name®  of  people  who 
wish  information  on  the  Berry  or  Rutledge  family*  In  this  way  I 
contact  many  Of  the  relative©  whom  I  would  never  find  otherwiee* 


•3, 


Along  with  the  old  pietu&es,I  have  gathered  other 
relic®  of  the  old  families. On 3  tc  *»  ©Id  hand  made  K«?niu®ky  rifle 
which  family  tradition  says  Lincoln  has  shot  many  times.  This  rifle 
came  to  me  from  my  grand-father  (Samuel  Campbell  Berry), it  is  a  very 
fine  old  gun  and  tradition  say®  it  was  the  best  gun  for  mile®  around 
in  it©  day®  at  Few  Salem, and  early  Illinois. 

Some  day  I  will  photograph  this  gun  and  then  can  send 
you  a  picture  of  it  if  you  wi©h  on®.     I  have  four  old  guns  that  came 
to  me  from  the  older  B#rrye,I  ®m  sure  three  of  them  came  from  the 
vaeinity  of  New  Salem  (Old  Salem  to  all  of  the  older  relatives. )of  mine) 

If  I  can  he  of  more  service  to  you  I  would  he  very  much 


pleased  to  do  so* 


Yours  ver^  truly 


&  7fa~Ji  fJj**^ 


John  Franklin  Berry 


My  family  line 


HMiE 


BIRTH 

John  Franklin  Berry  16S9 

father         William  Franklin  Berry     1S62 

grand*B»f  a.  Samuel  Campbell  Berry      1S28 

great-gvf-  James  Berry  1S05 

Samuel  Berry  IjSO 


1936 

1S92 

Rutledge 
1S55  married  Jane  Officer 

1855 


Jane  Officer  Hutledge 

1S0S 

1866 

John  James  Rutledge 

1761 

1S35 

John  James  Rutledge 

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John  James  Rutledge     (Ireland  or  Scotland) about?  1J39*/  •/  about  1767 

Jans  Officer  (      w  *        )  174   ./   Oct,   6, ley;./   ^.CAROLIA 

NAIfB  BIRTHPLACE  BIRTH  BKaTH  MARBIAG! 

Thomas  Rutledge  Thought  to  be  8,Car.Oct.i7,i76<: ./  Aug. 20,1830./  in  Georgia. 

Sallie  Smith  ,/  Aug. 26,1778./  Dec. 12,1643./ 

Robert  Rutledge  Thought  to   be  8. Oar. Sep. 22, 1783./  about     1^23,/ 

Susannah  Mayes  •/  •//  •/ 

John  James  Rutledge       South  Carolina       ./  May  lltrj£l*/  Bee.   5,1835./  Jan. 25,1808 
&ary  Ann  Miller  South  Carolina       ./  Oct. 21, 1767./  Bee. 26,1876./  Henderson,   0. 

mmmmuMM  **> 

William   Rutledge  Ga../Feo.   6,   1790./  Nov. 23,1864./  In  Xy.by  ,;aa- 

Sunnah  Cameron  South  Carolina       ,/  Jan.   3»lt§?«/  ®ep.  &,1&::3./  es  MoSrady. 

.?????   ?  Rutledge  Ga  ./  ./  ./ 

Thomas  Mayee  (James  ?)  Ca.  •/  •/  •/ 

Jane  Rutledge  ???  Ga.//  ./  ./  0ct.29,lSl8? 

Michel  Dickareon  ???  ./  ./  ./by  Thoa. Rutle- 

dge, in  fhite  Co 
111 
Susan  Rutledge  Ga. ./  about       187^/  ./ 

Wilier  ??•  ./  ./  ./ 

Nancy  or   Sarah  ???  Ga. ./  ./  ,/  Jan. 14,1826  f 

Jacob   C.Wright  ,/  ,/  ./  white  Cz*l^. 

Parts  of  the  above  records  are  very  unreliable  as  shown  oy  the  tttt 
there  ears  four  daughters  in  thie  family  Mary, Jane, Sarah  arid  ElizabettE.lt  is  thou- 
ght one  married  John  Bawson  of  Bawson  Illinois.   The  order  of  birth  is  not  known. 

The  mother  of  these  children  is  buried  at   Knfi eld, White  oounty, Illinois. 
She  came  to  White, Co. 111.   in  the  fall  of  1813  with  her  sons.   The  burial  place  of 
the  father  Is  not  known, but  is  thought  to  be  near  Mateaville, Georgia. 

Some  records  say  the  father  and  mother  igrs  loarried  in  Ireland  and  came 
to   8. Car.   about  1763. This  statement  is  rather  uncertain 


From  the  records  of  J.Frank  Berry     Lewis, Iowa. 


john  Jam©s  Rutiedg©      South  Carolina       ./  Mey, 11,1761./  Be*.  3»1?>5§«/  Jan.25,l&>8. 
Mary  Ann  Miliar  *  "  ./  Oct, 21,1787./  Bee. 26,167*./  Hendsrson,1^ 

Ky 

NAME  i"iIi;TK"FLAOE  BIETH  {£A1X  SIAJfffilAfl 

Jan©  Officer  Rutiedg©,  Kenderson,Oo*Ey../  I©v.23,lco£./  Aug. 24, 1866,/  F?;D.2S,l82g 
James  Berry  Fru^kiin,Co.T&nn./  Oct.  X.,i8Q5«/  £-v.2c,l8^;./rcccras  at  xii 

Springfield,   1' 

John  Millar   Rutled&e       Fender son, Co. &y.  •/  ftcv.2C,l8lO./  May  17,167b,/  May  26,1857. 
Sarah  O.Harris  ./  ./  ./ 

Anna  May^fc  Ruile&ge         Etudersun.Co.Ky../  Jan.   7,161^,/  Au.g.25,iL£5./  Lincoln's  Ann 

DaYid  Hamilton  RutXe^gs     Whits, Co. 111,?./  Aug.22,liX5,/  May  2$,lt4l./ 

Robert  Brannon  Butledgi     Whits ,Gc  •111,?./   ?*fe«33,l8&9«/ Ua$     6,mi./  llov,   lsl&4c 
8  as  ant  ha  Jenkins  •/  ./  ,/ 

l.p46t 
laaoy  Cameron  Rutledge       White,  Do. 111.?./  F*^.10,X$2X./  Jan.l6,J>;0; ./  Oet. 14,1840  ? 
Anthony  T.Prewitt  Ky../         ,      ,IciO./  ./ 

Margaret  Ant  strong  Butledgt-   frits,^.!,./  ?ua. 21,1 823./  May       ,XS64»/ 

William  Blackburn  Rutiedg*     White-, Co.??./  Nov,2Q,l826./  Jul.    6,1917./ 

./  •/  ./ 

Mary  Anderson  Rutiedg  s.  ■Ute.Co.??./  June  5,1827./  Jui.^.lc^J./ 

Sarah  Frost  Butiedge     *snai-tt,Co.Iliinci>/  0ot.^C,lS2Q./  May     1,1922./ 
J  tiauftdsrs  ./  ,/ 


^     $      •*"      *      £     %     4s     $     '•-      *      v       r     4s      *•      *      A      *•     if     A     * 

Thti  Rutledge  fewlly  aettisd  on  Gimeoru  C$»e©&  about  7  miles  north  or* 
what  was  latter  Mew  Salem.   Land  was  entersd  from  the  Ciovarnmsnt  oy  then  on  Fsb.S, 
1&28. 

Sarah  Froft  Eutledga   *&$   burn   in    tha  old  Tavern  at  Few  SaJ.ee.. 

Mary  Ann   (Miller)    Rutledge  had  a  lister   Cleaey  born  in  X7$Q)«fce  married 
(Thomas  Osmsron  oorn  in  Scouand  July  14,17%, died  in  Georgia, July  15,lSl4.) 

James  Miller  who  married (Jans  Rutledgs  dau.of  Thee. Rutledge)    w*s  a  brother 
Of  Mary  Ann  Miller. 

There  is  a  ?&wrd  in  the  County  Clerks  Office  or  Kend©rson,Co,F:y.    *hich 

reads,   On©  James  McGready  Tiled  a  report  with  A.M. Barbour (who  was  Co. Clerk  of 
Henderson, Co.)    on  Jan, 15,1511  in  which  h©  listed  the  Carriage  of  0Y1R 


James  Rutle&g©  and  Mary  Anna  Miller  as  performed  by  him  on  Jan.25,l8o8»   It  is  not 
known  if  the  license  was  secured  in  Henderson, County  or  not,  as  the  marriage 
register  could  not  foe  found. 

From  the  records  of  J.Franfc  Berry       Lewis, Iowa 


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Susan  MiBarry 

Emily  Ann  Berry 
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George   ff.Berry  &  An^line(Wood)   Berry  had  Benny   CBerry  born  May, 26,1842;    and 
Dulsena  Kitty  Berry  born  Apr.17,,1844.   married  John  Frofe*fe         and 

Elizabeth  ^Bsrry  born  May,30,l846.  married Phiper     at  Silver  City, Iowa 

Mary  "P.Berry  born  Sep.  4,1854,  married     ■ Harter       and 

Charles  W. Berry  born  Mar,28,l86l. 


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Samuel   Berry 

Jane    inn  Weir    (Wier) 


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Va./  ./  Liar.  13,1834./ 


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janes    Berry 


Jane   Officer  Rut ledge 


Franklin, Go.    Tenn./ 


probably 


G-a./ 


Oct.    1,1805./ 
Nov. 23, 1808./ 


Baxter   Bell   Berry  Franklin, Go.    Tenn./ 

Elizabeth,  pre s ton  camron.  ./ 


Margaret  Berry 
Thoma s  J ohn son 


Franklin, Co.    Tenn./ 


Sliz abe th  McCutehen  Berry , Franklin, Go.  Ten.  / 


William  Griffin  Jeter       Louisville, 


Ky./ 


Martha    ktm   Berry 
David   Curtis    Clark 

William  Preston  Berry 
Ducilla  \ "  ilcox 
Susan  Spickelmire 

Mary  Berry 
Jim  Jones 

Sarah  W. Berry 
James   Alt is 


Franklin, Go.    Tenn./ 

./ 

Franklin, Go.  Tenn./ 

./ 
Ind./ 

Franklin, Co.    Tenn./ 

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Franklin, Co.    Tenn./ 

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Harriet  Belinda   Berry 

Menard,  Co. 

111./ 

Redding  Nance 

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John  T.Jones 

./ 

Oct. 25, 1807./ 
Jan. 18,1813./ 

Feb. 15,1810./ 
NOV.    7,1804./ 

Oct.  5,1812./ 
Sep. 20, 1807./ 

.       ,1814./ 
•  / 

,1816./ 

•       ,  •/ 

.       ,1833./ 

.       ,1818./ 

•  9  •  / 

May  16,1824./ 
Aug. 13,1827./ 

Nov.  6,1327./ 
Jan. 17,1825./ 
Feb. 25, 1813./ 


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Sep. 26, 1355./  flop. -5,1828. 
Aug. 24 ,  1866. /t-hink    Mii-bo , 
-§&-,  , Illinois, 

Dec.  2,1891./  Oct.  2, 1832. 
ipr.  3, 1896. /probably  ill. 

Nov. 25, 1893./  Sep. 15, 1828. 
Dec. 19, 1893./ 

ray  31,1875./  Mar.       .1832. 
Aug. 31, 1867./  &J&4.WI 

.       ,1900./  .       ,1837 

.       ,1874./  Sep. 12,1839 
,  ./  Menard, Co, 13 

.       ,1910./ 


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Dec. 14, 1846./  Jun.13,1844. 
,  ./Menard, Co, 113 

Oct. 19, 1902./  Mar. 20, 1849. 
Feb.    7,1854./ynz*W£.#2£ 
Jul.    4,1886./  Sep. 29, 1856. 


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Samuel  Berry  and  his  wife  jane  inn  Berry  both  died  in  Menard, County  Illinois, 
and  are  buried  in  ibraham  Goodpasture  cemetery, near  Petersburg  Illinois. 

Samuel  Berry  was  Magistrate  (Squire)  at  Concord, Illinois  when  Lincoln  was 
studying  law, and  Lincoln  has  tried  cases  in  his  Court. 

Samuel  Berry  and  his  wife  were  both  of  Irish  descent, they  moved  from  Virginia 
to  Tennessee , then  in  1825  to  Illinois. 

Samuel  Berry  was  a  brother  of  John  McCutchen  Berry. 

Tf  toit  inin  rnrj^_jrrj^r±B^mi^ 

J.Frank  Berry        Lewis.  Iowa. 


November  23,  1938 


Mr.   J.   Frank  Berry 
Lewis,   Iowa 

My  dear  Mr.  Berry? 

May  I  express  my  deep  appreciation 
for  the  very  interesting  copies  of  old  records 
which  you  have  so  kindly  forwarded. 

I  '411  immediately  get  to  work  on 
these  and  see  if  I  cannot  help  you  in  the  placing 
of  the  Bltl$$$6  fsnily  ancestors  as  I  have  a  great 
many  records  from  Virginia  and  the  Carolinas  referring 
to  the  Htitledges, 

Just  as  soon  as  time  permits,   I  will 
try  to  get  together  such  information  as  we  have  on 
the  Berry  family  also  and  see  if  we  can  patch  up 
enough  stock  so  that  we  will  have  a  fairly  good 
genealogy  of  thea  alsos 

I  think  possibly  you  would  like  to  be 
on  our  mailing  list  for  Lincoln  Lore,  a  publication 
which  we  is*ue  here,  and  your  name  is  being  placed 
on  our  list. 

Tery  truly  yours, 


LA^:BS  Director 


Dr. Louis  A. Warren  Lewis, Iowa 

Lincoln  National  Life  Foundation.  Feb. 25, 1939 

Fort  Wayne, Indiana. 
My  dear  Br .Warren 

This  is  rather  a  two-fold  letter.   I   wish  to  thank 
you  very  much  for  the  Lincoln  Lore, that  has  been  sent  to  me 
regularily,  with  the  acception  of  numbers  500*501,502,503  for  the 
mo#th  of  November. 

I   am  wondering  if  you  did  not  have  enough  of  these 
four  numbers  to  go   around, or  if  they  were  lost  in  the  mail.   If 
there  were  not  enough  to  go   around, I   appreciate  the  others  just 
the  same, but  would  like  these  numbers  if  they  are  available.   I 
have  the  year  of  193^  complete  with  the  accepion  of  these  numbers. 

Lincoln  Lore  is  a  very  handy  reference  list  for  me 
in  my  research  work  on  the  Berry  anfl  Rutledge  records.   I  have  made 
very  good  progress  on  these  records  this  winter.   I   spend  most  of 
my  time  evenings  working  on. them*. 

Thanking  you  again  of  Lincoln  Lore. 

Yours  very  truly. 


9:<y7A**tA /&"%c 


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The  Lincoln  National. Life  Ins.Co*  Lewis, Iowa. 

Fort  Wayne, Indiana.  Apr. 5,1939 

Dear  Sirs; 

Your  Lincoln  Lore  came  this  morning, the  annual   reply 
card  inclosed,   I   am  returning  the  stub  marked  as  per  your  wish. 

I   wish  to   thank  you  very  much  for     LINCOLN  LORE.   I 
appreciate  this  little-  sheet  very  much, and  use  it  considerable 
in  my  research  work  on  tbe  Berry  and  Rutledge  families. 

Thanking  you   again, 

Yours  very  truly 


&<%la*iA    /^Vz^ 


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THE  NATIONAL  ASSOCIATION  OF 
COMMISSIONERS,  SECRETARIES 
AND  DIRECTORS  OF  AGRICULTURE 

J.  ROY  JONES,  President 
Columbia,  S.  C. 

R.  A.  TROVATTEN,  Vice-President 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 

JEWELL  MAYES,  Sec'y-Treas. 
Jefferson  City,  Mo. 


Dr.  Louis  A.  Warren,  Editor, 

Lincoln  Lore, 

Lincoln  Historical  Research  Foundation, 

Lincoln  National  Life  Insurance  Co., 

Fort  Wayne,  Indiana. 


Vice-Presidents:  (l)  GEO.  G.  SCHWEIS,  Reno,  Nev.;  (2) 
MATH  DAHL,  Bismarck,  N.  D.;  (3)  HARRY  D.WILSON,  Baton 
Rouge,  La. 

Executive  Committee:  OLCOTT  F.  KING,  Hartford,  Conn.; 
W.  C  SWEINHART,  Denver,  Colo.;  MATH  DAHL;  JOE  C. 
SCOTT,  Oklahoma  City,  Okla.;  J.  ROY  JONES,  R.  A.  TRO- 
VATTEN and  JEWELL  MAYES. 


Dear  Doctor: 

Returning  the  Lincoln  Lore  of  February  15,  1932, 
I  am  reminding  that  I  have  kept  another  copy  religiously  and  zeal- 
ously in  my  possession  through  the  years,  while  carrying  on  a  line 
of  correspondence,  trying  to  solve  what  to  me  has  been  a  more  or  less 
of  a  mystery,  why  Ann  Mayes  Rutledge  had  "Mayes'8  as  her  middle  name. 

Of  course  there  is  no  question  but  what  she  had 
some  Mayes  blood  in  her  veins. 

Have  you  ever  solved  this  question,  concerning 
which  we  had  correspondence  in  1932  and  in  that  era? 

You  will  find  me  by  addressing  me  "In  Care  State 
Department  of  Agriculture,  Jefferson  City,  Missouri" .  My  old  home 
legal  address  is  Richmond,  Missouri. 

May  I  hear  from  you? 


Sincerely, 


July  12,  1941, 


,  Hersanal, 


Inc.  1760. 


c/o  State  Department  of  Agriculture, 
Jefferson  City,  Missouri. 


(7/7/1941.) 


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AM  MATES  RUTLEDGE,  (1813-1835.) 


The  "Why"  of  the  middle  name  sf  Miss  Ann  Mayes  Rutledge, 
the  gone-on- bef ore ,  glorified,  young  titian-haired  sweetheart  of  the 
sainted  Abraham  Lincoln  is  an  (as  yet)  unanswered  question! 

The  parents  of  Miss  Ann  Mayes  Rutledge  were  James  Rutledge 
and  Ann  (Miller)  Rut ledge,  who  were  married  on  January  25,  1808,  in  Hender- 
son County,  Kentucky,   James  Hut ledge  was  born  in  South  Carolina,  May  11, 
1781,  and  died  near  Concord,  Illinois,  December  3,  1835.   Miss  Ann  Miller, 
his  wife,  was  born  October  21,  1787,  and  died  December  26,  1878~and  per- 
chance her  mother  was  a  Mayes.   The  Eutledges  were  allegedly  descended  from  the 
family  of  Edward  Rut  ledge,  who  signed  the  Declaration  of  Independence— but  this 
has  not  been  proven.   The  parents  of  Mrs.  Rutledge  were  Scotch. 

Miss  Ann  Mayes  Rutledge  was  born  in  Henderson  County,  Kentucky, 
January  7,  1813,  the  third  of  nine  children*   Tradition  has  it  that  she  was 
carried  a  babe  in  arms  when  her  parents  moved  from  Kentucky  to  Illinois*   The 
beautiful  story  of  the  mutual  love  between  her  and  Abraham  Lincoln  is  heart 
history.   She  died  near  Concord,  Illinois,  August  25,  1835,  and  was  buried 
there;  her  dust  was  later  reburied  at  Petersburg,  Illinois. 

Jewell  Mayes  (Richmond,  Missouri)  has  been  interested  in  this 
"middle  name1*  question  for  some  time,  and  has  helped  to  encourage  the  active 
interest  of  Director  Louis  A.  Warren  of  the  Lincoln  Historical  Research  Founda- 
tion, Fort  Wayne,  Indiana.    He  also  had  correspondence  (a  few  years  ago)  with 
the  venerable  Thomas  Reep  of  Petersburg,  Illinois,  where  Ann  was  buried.   Colonel 
J.  Nick  Perrln,  3  West  A  Street,  Belleville,  111.,  (author  of  "The  History  of 
Illinois"),  in  early  1930* s  also  joined  Mr.  Mayes  in  his  search  for  the  genealo- 
gical explanation  of  Ann  Rutledge1 s  middle  name. 

Evidently  either  the  Millers  or  the  Ratledges  were  akin  (by 
blood  or  marriage)  to  the  Mayes  family,  which  (if  true)  would  explain  the 
middle  name. 

What  is  the  answer  to  this  question? 

.Readers  are  invited  to  write  to  Jewell  Mayes,  (Richmond,  Mo.) 
if  you  have  ever  read  or  heard  anything  that  tends  to  explain  the  middle  name 
of  Miss  Ann  Mayes  Rutledge,  of  sainted  memory  1 


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IN  FROff&Ts  ','„?„"'""""  cL„tiC,^rt.dEFEHSR,hi?  '"  y°"'  <™E«<ED 
■   .   .  Reply,  sendWmeor..  n™?^    i     (    '  "   r '•  ReP'y  °ver  own  signature; 

.  .  .  Rea5,yVKm1ne      .     Rush  R^X        'VT^^  u    '  PleaSe  «^ 

■    Se°  d'buliSs)51  •  •  •  ?&»  •  '  '  SpaC6d;  •  ■  •  8^XH;  -  •  '  ^  »*~i 


letter  appreciated;  .  .  .  Confi 
rlential.    Thank  you. 


mwmM 


July  22,  19H1 


Mr,  Jewell  Mayes 

c/o  State  Department  of  Agriculture 
Jefferson  City,  Mo. 

My  dear  $fr.  Mayes $ 

I  am  now  paying  a  price  of  negligence  tor  apparently 
I  failed  to  sake  a  sufficient  inquiry  as  to  where  X  could 
find  a  historical  date  of  which  X  ran  across  sous  years  ago 
on  the  Mayes  family. 

The  past  hour  or  more  X  have  been  hunting  for  this 
source  aaterlal  hut  have  failed  to  discover  it. 

X  remember  distinctly,  however,  that  it  spoke  of 
intermarriages  between  the  Butledgee  and  Mayes  families  and 
It  appear*  to  me  as  if  there  was  a  Msyestown  or  a  Mayesville 
in  Tennessee,  or  some  southern  state  named  after  this  family. 
I  will  make  further  searches  and  if  X  am  able  to  locate  the 
information  will  be  pleased  to  advise  you. 

X  remember  upon  gathering  it  originally  X  thought  of 
sending  it  to  you  at  once  but  in  some  way  negleoted  It. 

Very  truly  yours, 


IAWiSB  Director 


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Mr.  Eenry  A#  Klein 
Ittcolet  Botol 
Sparta,  Wis* 

Dear  Kfc.  KLolni 

In  reply  to  your  letter  of  Jfomiary  26,  I 
vould  suggest  that  Miss  Aim  Butledge  vao  never  married 
so  I  don't  loaov  vho  the  direct  ^sgoentoit  can  "be. 

I^artherittor©,  I  do  not  thU^c  wt  havo  over  paid 
out  any  money  to  any  one  for  anted  tting  the  name  of  some 
one  vho  has  sonethins  tn  sell.    ThBiik  you  vary  much  for 
your  Interest* 

Very  truly  yours, 


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I*.  P.  B.  Sweetman 

Route  2 

las  Animas,  Colorado 

Dear  ?3r«  Sweetmam 

I  have  your  letter  of  February  33th.  I  have  been  unable  to 
answer  It  until  today  due  to  the  fact  that  1  have  been  on  a 
seven  week  speaking  tour  to  twenty  eastern  cities.  I  have 
read  your  long  letter  regarding  the  Hutledge  Fatally  with  a 
great  deal  of  interest*  3h  fact  I  think  that  I  will  file  your 
letter  with  our  Eutledge  material* 

The  best  work  that  has  been  done  on  the  so  called  Idncoln  - 
Hutledge  romance  appears  in  Jades  Bandall's  book  entitled 
"Idncoln  Hie  IVesident  -  Springfield  GettyBburg  Volume  II,  Page 
321.  Sfclf  chapter  appears  under  Appendix  and  the  title  of  the 
chapter  is  lifting  the  Ann  Hutledge  Evidence*'1 

ULth  this  letter  I  am  enclosing  a  Bulletin  which  you  may  find 
of  interest  entitled  n!I!h©  Hutledge  Family"*  Thanking  you  for 
your  letter  I  remain 

Yours  sincerely, 


R.  Gerald  IMiurtry:c,jc      Director 
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February  6,  1961 


Dr.  R.  Gerald  McMurtry 

Lincoln  National  Life  Foundation 

Fort  Wayne,  Indiana 

Dear  Gerald: 


Sorry  I  didn't  get  a  letter  of:    .th  the 
photostat  and  book.   when  1  checked  our  "Parlor  Monuments 
to  the  Illustrious  Dead"  I  found  there  were  two  broadsides  so 

sent  copies  of  both. 


I  personally  had  an  extra  copy  of  the  House 
Journal  of  1838  which  I  have  sent.   I  have  no  idea  as 
to  price  so  will  be  agreeable  to  whatever  you  suggest. 

It  has  been  several  years  since  I  have  run 
across  any.   Several  years  ago  I  spent  a  couple  of  days 
in  going  through  the  tremendous  stock  of  the  National 
Law  Library  Appraisal  Association,  533  South  E     orn, 
Chicago  5,  Illinois,  and  found  most  of  my  own  set  of  both 
laws  and  Journals.   You  might  drop  them  a  letter. 

I  am  enclosing  photostats  of  the  family  record 

from  the  Rut ledge  family  Bible.   I  would  like  your  opinion 

It    the  two  entries  on  the  second  page  of  the  death  of 
Rutledge  and  James  Rutledge  could 


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Iforch  22,  1961 


Mr,  James  T.  Hickey,  Curator 
Lincoln  Collection 
Illinois  State  Historical  Library 
Springfield,  Illinois 

Dear  Jim: 

I  have  showed  your ' Rutledge  family  Bible  records  (photostats) 
to  Dr.  Warren.  He  gave  the  two  entries  considerable  thought  and  finally 
decided  they  were  not  written  by  Lincoln* 

I,  too,  have  given  them  some  study,  and  while  there  seems  to 
be  some  resemblance  to  Lincoln's  handwriting,  I  fear  I  will  have  to  agree 
with  Dr.  Warren.  A  break-down  of  the  study  of  the  individual  letters 
seems  to  reveal  that  they  were  not  formed  like  Lincoln  formed  them. 

I  suppose  by  now  that  either  you  or  the  Illinois  State  Historical 
Society  has  purchased  the  model  of  the  Manny  reaper,  I  am  eager  to 
hear  more  about  it. 

Sincerely, 


R.  Gerald  McMartry 
RGMthw 


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,    By  Mm  Atpy: 

Abe  Lincoln  will  celebrate  his 
-birthday  thia  Monday  with  a  paily 
in  a  little  German  tavern  in  Dav- 
enport  Abe,  though,  will  be  wear- 
ing a  collar  instead  o(  a  stovepipe 
hat. 

Abe  so-named    because  he 
bom  on     Lincoln  -   birthday 
years  ago,  is  a  miniature  French 
poodle   owned  by  Mr.    and.  Mrs. 
Carl    Lambach  of    Davenport.  A 
number  of  people  have  been 
vited.  Appetizers  nil]  be  a  hard 
boiled  egg  and  cashew  nuts.  Main 
course  will  be  a  meat  loaf  about 
the  size  of  a  biscuit.  Dessert  will 
consist  of  an  oatmeal  cookie. 

Hie  miniature  Abe  will  also  pro- 
ride  his  guests  with  a  glass  01 
bottle  of  German,  Swiss  or  Ameri- 
can beer.  Later  his  guesls  will 
adjourn  (o  the  Lambach  home  for 
coffee  and  cake. 


"How  corae,"  an  area  r..„.„ 
wonders,  "that  75  per  cent  of  the 
people  I  move  are  leaving  Iowa" 
How  come  only  a  trickle  are  mo* 
ing  in?" 

Anyone  have  the  answer* 


The  recent  item  here  alwut  the 
policeman  who  left  his  car  run- 
ning all  nigh!  reminded  Leo  S. 
Kerker,  2034  40th  St,  Rock  Island. 
of  an  incident  which  happened 
recently  to  a  young  Rock  Island 
housewife. 

"Il  was  a  little  after  S  a.m. 
she  had  to  go  out  in  13  below 
weather  to  pick  up  her  two  little 
boys  who  had  spent  the  night 
with  their  grandparents.  She  got 
the  ear  started  in  the  garage  and 
was  going  to  back  it  out  i 
driveway  to  let  it  warm  up. 

"Suddenly  for  some  uni 
reason  she  changed  her  mind 
about  backing  out  of  the  garage 
and  went  in  the  house  lo  wait  for 
the  car  to  warm  up.  She  forgot 
one  thing,  though— to  take  the 
auto  out  of  reverse.  When  she 
came  back  to  climb  into  her 
warm  car  -  it  was  gone! 

"It  had  bacietTTtseif  out ■  «Tftc 
garage,  down  and  acres 
neighbor's  driveway,  and  ended  up 
in  a  snowbank  right  in  the  middle 
of  the  neighbor's  front  yard.  You 
can  imagine  the  surprise  of  her 
half- wakened  husband,  and  the 
time  his  wife  had  trying  to  con- 
vince him  what  really  happened, 
He'a  had  some  trouble,  too,  try- 
ing to  -make  the  neighbors  be- 
lieve he  didn't  come  home  with  a 
few  too  many  under  his  belt  and 
park  in  their  front  yard." 


Here's  an  even  sadder  auto  tale. 
Last  week  Jack  G.  Beck,  1013 
Jones  St.,  Bettendorf.  picked  up 
his  brand  new,  bright  red  com- 
pact car  from  a  Davenport  deal- 
er and  stopped  to  pick  up  his 
girl  for  an  inspection  ride. 

Just  20  minute?  later,  he  found 
himself  at  the  corner  of  West 
Third  and  Harrison  streets  star- 
ing  disconsolately  at  a  crumpled 
fender  and  wondering  if  there 
wasn't  some  way  to  revoke 
women's  driver's  licenses. 

"Only  one  consolation,"  phi! 
osophites  Kelly  Chenoweth,  who 
was  Beck's  passenger,  "it 
be  some  kind  of  a  record." 


The  owner  of  a  big  department 
store  was  amazed  when  the  sale 
of  falsiec  suddenly  began  to  out. 
do  regular  brassiere  sales  by 
three  to  one  margin.  When  he 
checked  record*  he  found  this 
had  been  occurring  for  several 
weeks. 

Wondering  what  in  the  world 
could  account  for  this  strange 
versa!,  he  secreted  liimself  in  the 
lingerie  department  for  a  whole 
day  and  watched.  He  waa  amazed 
to  see  several  young  airmen  from 
a  nearby  base  come  hi  during  the 
day  and  bluahingly  buy  sets  of 
the  unmentionables. 

F  in  all  v  be  could  stand  it  no 
longer  ird  w  1 1  k  «  d  up  to  h™ 
young  fliers  who  had  hut  made 

such  pirrehases.  "Fellas,  if 

lainly  none  of  my  busines 
apologized,     "but    what  ii 
world  are  y«J  g°«S  to  do  ^^ 
those?" 

The  young,  airmen  fidgeted 
comfortably.  "Well,  you  see,  i 
one    finally    explained,      "W 
found  there's  just  nothing  better 
to  put  under  our  helmets  lo  keep 
our  ears    warm  and     shut     out 
noise.  They  make  the  helmets  lit 
snugger,  too." 


Lincoln 

CALLED  HER 

"MOM" 


A  Little-Known  Southeast  Iowa  Link 
To  The  Legend  Of  The  President  Who 
Was  Born  153  Years  Ago  This  Week 


EDITOR'S  NOTE:  About  a  hundred 
miles  south  end  west  of  the  Q-jad- 
Cities,  in  Iowa's  Van  Buren  County,  is 
a  link  to  the  legend  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln whose  birthday  we  observe  this 
Monday.  Here's  the  story  of  th's  link, 
and  a  women  tSat  Lincoln  ca'h.d 
"Mom." 

By  BILL  WUNDRAM 

Sunday  Editor 

BIRMINGHAM.  Iowa  —  The  roof 
sags  uneasily,  weathered  by  far  mors 
than  a  hundred  prairie  winters  and  ' 
summers.  One  ancient  wins  has  been 
crushed  by  a  fnllinR  elm.  but  its  simple 
lines  are  still  there,  and  you  can  readr 
ily  see  that  it  once  was  a  house. 

It  js  in  a  barnyard,  unnoticed  by 
mos.;  unknown  to  even  exist  by  many 
historians. 

This  was  the  Iowa  home  of  Mary 
Ann  Ruiled^e,  mother  of  Ann  Rut- 
ledge,  whose  promise  of  marriage  to 
Abraham  Lincoln  was  broken  only  by 
her  death. 

In  this  house,  the  widow  Rutledge 
lived  lor  many  years  with  her  six  chil- 
dren, tending  crops  on  her  small  farm, 
spinning  on  the  wheel  to  the  musinof 
whose  hi'mmin?  Abe  Lincoln  often  fell 
asleep  at  New  Salem's  Rutledge  Tav- 

What  grade  schooler,  romantic 
teen  or  Lincoln  historian  has  not 
wistfully  pondered  the  romance  of 
young,  lean  Abraham  and  pretty 
Ann  Rutledge  in  the  rustic  frontier 
village  of  New  Salem  ....  and  has  not 
shared  his  grief  when  Ann  died  in 
the  summer  of  their  promised  year  of 
wed? 

Arm  Rutledge  died  in  August, 
1835.  Her  father  died  three  months 
later.    ' 

Two  years  later,  the  widow  Mary 
Ann  Rutledge  left  New  Salem.with  six 
of  her  eight  children  and  traveled  west- 
ward to  Iowa  to  settle  with  the  earliest 
pioneers  north  and  west  of  the  village 
of  Birmingham.  Such  an  act  was  a  bold 
one  for  a  frail  woman  of  50,  and  why 


she  chose  the  remote  area  of  Birming- 
ham to  settle  is  not  certain. 

While  historians  have  left  not  a 
pebble  unturned  in  researching  the  life 
of  Lincoln,  it  is  unfortunate  that  none 
followed  Mary  Ann  Rutledge  into 
Iowa. 

Scant  Information 

Information  about  her  life  in  these 
parts  is  scant.  Upon  the  little  farm  plot 
where  she  chose  to  settle  was  built  a 
simple  house. 

"1  recall  being  told  that  it  was  al- 
ways a  four-room  place,"  says  Leo 
Parsons,  the  mayor  of  Birmingham. 
Annals  of  the  community  state  simply, 
that  Mary  Ann  Rutledge  was  "a  wo- 
man of  marked  reserve  and  deepest 
feelings." 

She  was  a  woman  who  could' 
have  had  a  fascinating  story  to  tell, 
had  only  someone  searched  it  out. 
She  lived  to  see  the  lover  of  her 
daughter  Ann  rise  step  by  step 
through  his  amazing  career,  and  she, 
perhaps  better  than  anyone  else,  un- 
derstood the  soul  of  Lincoln  when 
during  his  Presidency  he  =nid,  "I  bave 
served  in  the  depths  ...  I  have  been 
severely  schooled." 

»ttr*<*«  ^Ifedgiahared  Lin- 
coln's grief  upon  the  death  of  Ann,  and 
in  his  company  would  spend  long 
hours  at  Ann's  graveside.  She  was  a 
close  friend,  a  confidante,  and  in  the 
time  when  he  was  a  boarder  at  the 
Rutledge  place,  Lincoln  .was  said  to 
have  called  her  "Mom." 
Famed  Kit. 
The  Rutledges  of  New  Salem,  and 
later  Birmingham  in  Iowa,  were  of 
Revolutionary  War  stock.  Edward 
Rutledge,  ancestor  of  James  (husband 
of  Mary' Ann)  was  the  youngest  signer 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
(He  was  27  at  the  time.)  Edward's 
brother,  John  Rutledge,  received  one  of 
the  nation's  loftiest  honors  —  George 
Washington  named  him  chief  justice 
of  theU.  S.  Supreme  Court. 

Mary  Ann  Rutledge's  life  at  New 
Salem  was  never  embellished  by  any 


particular  incidents,  so  far  as  known. 
Letters  of  relatives,     written  in  the 

early  1900s, '  mention  the  "delicious 
sheep-nose  .apple  trees  that  used  to 
grow  around  the  Rutledge  place." 
Also,  letters  of  her  kin  tell  of  Mary 
Ann's  recollections  of  "the  terribly 
sad  look  on  Lincoln's  face  when  he 
came  out  of  the  room  when  Ann 
was  dying." 

Three  sons  and  three  daughters 
came  to  Birmingham  with  the  widow 
Rutledge.  One  of  the  sons  was  Robert, 
a  chum  of  Lincoln  in  earlier  days.  Dur- 
ing'the'War  years,  politicians  could  not 
quite  understand  an  appointment 
which  Lincoln  made  to  a  mart  in  a 
far-off,  unheard  of  place  called  Bir- 
mingham in  Iowa.  In  his  own  hand- 
writing, Lincoln  made  his  friend  Robert 
Rutledge  provost  marshal  of  the  First 
Congressional  District  of  Iowa. 
Blind  At  Death 

Mary  Arm  Rutledge  lived  to  be  a 
very  old  woman  for  that  era,  and  in  the 
twilight  years  of  her  life  she  became 
blind.  The  day  after  Christmas,  in  1878, 
she  died  at  the  agerof  91,  outliving  Lin- 
coln by  13  yeargi  To  her  deatbV;she 
never  .had  a.  gray  hair  in  her  head. 
'  She  was  buried  in  littlff^Bethel 
'  Cemetery,  on  the  rim  of  a  slight  bluff 
near  Birmingham  and  not  far  from  the 
family  home. 

The  grave,  marked  by  a  towering 
headstone,  is  visited  by  few  people  to- 
day. 

"You  never  hear  of  anyone  coming 
out  here,"  says  the  mayor  of  Birming- 
ham. Atop  the  stone  is  carved  a  pair  of 
clasped  hands,  familiar  on  many  old 
markers.  The  epitaph  says: 

"Oh,  mother  dear,  a  short 
farewell,  that  we  might  meet 
again  above,  and  roam  where 


The  original  Rutledge  house  today 
is  used  as  a  storage  shed  on  the  farm 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mace  ,Clarridge.  Con- 
sidering that  it  is  125  years  old,  it's 
remarkable  that  it's  still  standing.. 


In  lonely  Bethel  Cemetery  north  of  Birmingham, 
Iowa,  it  the  grave  of  Mary  Ann  Rutledge,  mother  of  Ann, 
Abo  Lincoln's  sweetheart.  The  marker  fa  in  excellent  con- 
dition, and  the  inscription  son  be  plainly  road. 


TEMPO 

FOR  TODAY 
TIMES^MOCRAT 


SUNDAY,  FEBRUARY  11,  1962 


This  r*  off  that  Is  left  of  the  home  of  the  widow  Mary 
i  Rufledae,  who  came  to  Iowa  with  six  of  her  chil- 


dren in  1837.  Thit  it  of  the  best-pro 
house.  (Staff  photos) 


Mrs.    Hoyt      Lutes    of    Fairfield    with 
Mory  Ann     Rutledge's  spinning     wheel, 
irved  section  of  the      tincoln  h  said  to  hove  fallen  asleep  to 
the   humming   of   this     wheel  when    the 


Rutledge  to. 
spinning  wl 


A        BRIEF        HISTORY 

OP        THE 
R  U   T   L   S   D  G-  E      Fa  M   I   L  Y 
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Alyce  Mae  tethers 


How  man/  of  the  less  fortunate  of  us  have  often  snvyed  the  proud 
possesor  of  an  intact  family  genalogy  and  wished  that  we  had  either 
the  financial  means  or  the  necessary  data  with  which  to  trace  backour 
family-  if  only  in  American  history.  For  some  unknown  reason  ,  it  seems 
to  be  most  generally  the  northern  families  for  whom  there  are  complete 
genealogies  and  very  few  extant  ones  for  most  southern  families. 

But  it  is   1  iys  more  interesting  to  delve  i]  -    ornething  which 
is  hard  to  obtain.  So  I  decided  to  do   .  t  I  co-."!    Lth  the  subject  of 
the  Rutledge  family*  why  I  don't  know  except  that  I  have  always  been 
attracted  by  the  poi     b]   tender  love  story  of  Ann  R  tledge      b- 
raham  Lincoln.  So  I  decided  to  write  as  -    ]      ,;  pc   ""      life 

-tory  of  -   RUtl edges- overlooking  t  which  histor:    h  *r 

left   pen,  May  I  1   par     L  if  1   treat  it  in  a   r  h    : 
'  :    _"-■   rs,  for  I  want  to  spend     '  I 
Luteliy  □  \  ■  ■  afore   bio 

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In  order  to  under  '      ;,re  cl   rl 
rica,  ]  I  ls  first  sxamine  what  littl     k    of  on   5r  t     b     its 
urope.  Trj  •.   -    ,.  or  j0]Tn  j       >  as  lDorn 

in  1743        1  in  17  ':-.  H   vvai  b3  .  publicist  gi   Ison  of    Irish  Jac- 

"  ite-  who  did    t]   :  ,  ::-  -  ; ..0k  literature  known  in  F:     ,  regard- 
1    of  scurrilious  at+ ;-:_.,  :_.;.-  ,1  etc. 

Then  we  have  note  of   "  3  ^^   Rutledg   ,vho  died  in  1729.  He  was  a 
banker  and  a  shipowner  at  Dunkirk  who  assisted  the  Pretender  in  the  ex- 
pedition of  1715,  a:     3  consequently  created  a  baronet  by  hin . 

The  only  other  Rutledge  whom    hear  of  in  Europe  is  Docter  J oh 


1 


2,; 


Rutle        Immigrated  to  America  fro:   C   .  id  in  1735.  There  is, how- 
ever a  definite  tracing  from  him.  for  we  know  him  to.  be  the  father  of 
•ee  boys:  John,  Hugh,  and  Edward, who  were  destined  to  play  rather 

it  parts  in  American  history  as  they  and  their  descendants  served 
their  country  in  various  capacities. 

eldest  boy,  John^  was  born  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina  in  L739. 
He  studied  law  i  n London  and  in  L76L  beagn  to  practise  in  Charleston.  In 

L765  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Stamp  Act  Congress  and  in  L774-  -77  a  del- 
ft, 
egate  to  the  Continental  Congress.  He  was  fom  the  outset  of  his  career 

an  ardent  opponent  of  the  oppressive  laws  which  governed  the  colonies  and 
as  a  delegate  to  these  conventions  openly  advocated  united  resistance. In 
1776"  he  was  commander  in  chief  of  the  militia  and  when  the  British  forces 
arrived  off  f4om  Gape  Pear,  he  fortified  the  city  of  Charleston  and  pre- 
sented invasion  of  the  state. During  the  battle  he  sent  500  pounds  of  pow- 
der and  directed  Colonel  William  Moultrie  itkot  to  retreat  without  an  order 
'  om  him,  adding  that  "he  would  rather  cut  off  his  right  hand  than  write 
one."    en  G-eneral  Augustine  Prevert  advanced  upon  Charleston  in  May  1779 
the  city  was  defenceless-  G-eneral  Benjamin  Lincoln  with  Continental  troops 
being  150  miles  away.  The  latter  hastened  to  the  succor  of  Charleston  by 
forced  marched  and  state  troops  gathered  for  the  same  object.  It  was  sup- 
posed by  the  governor's  counsel  that  Lhe  British  would  retire  on  the  con- 
dition that  South  Carolina  would  remain  neutral  during  the  rest  of  the 
war  and  that  her  fate  whould  be  determined  by  the  issues  of  conflict. 
This  measure, which  historian  Ramsey  thought  was  a  ruse  devised  for  the 
purpose  ox  gaming  time, was  favored  by  Hutledge,  %  opposed  by  G-adsen, 
Moultrie,  end  the  younger  Laurens.  On  Lincoln's  approach  the  enemy  retired 
and  Rutledge  at  the  head  of  the  militia  took  the  field  against  the  enmy. 
From  1782  to  83  he  was  chairman  of  the  committee  which  framed  the  South 
Carolina  constitution.  In  1776  he  was  the  first  "President"  or  governor 


3# 


of  the  state  of  Carolina.  Dissapproving  of  certain  changes  in  the  cons- 
titution, he  resigned  in  the  same  year.  It  was  said  "by  Patrick  Henry  of 
John  Kutledge  at  the  convention"  that  he  was  by  far  the  greatest  orator 
in  the  assembly."/.  He-^esigned-f^eM-the-geverne^ship  In  the  next  year 
after  he  resigned  from  the  governorship  he  was  re-ejected  to  the  same 
office  which  he  held  until  1$82.  From  1784  till  1789  he  was  a  member  of 
the  state  court  of  chancery.  In  the  constitutional  convention  of  1787  he 
urged  that  the  president  and  federal  judges  be  chosen  by  national  legat- 
ion and  preferably  by  the  Senate  alone* and  that  the  president  should  be 
chosen  for  a  seven  year  term  and  that  he  should  be  ineligible  to  succeed 
himself.  Kutledge  championed  the  constitution  in  South  Carolina  conven- 
tion which  was  adopted  on  behalf  of  that  state.  He  was  assosciate  justice 
of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  in  1789  to  95  and  Chief  Justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  South  Carolina  1791  to  95.  In  1795  he  was  nominated 
as  chief  justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  and  presided  over  the 
August  term,  but  the  Senate  refu  sed  to  confirm  the  nomination  apparenly 
because  of  his  opposition  to  the  Jay  treaty.  His  mind  failed  late  in  1795 
and  he  died  in  Charleston  on  July  23rd-l800.  It  seems  impossible  to  obtain 
the  name  of  the  woman  whom  he  married  but  we  know  that  he  had  a  son-  John 
who  was  born  in  Charleston, South  Carolina  in  1776  and  who  died  i  n  Phil- 
adelphia in  1819.  The  boy  studied  law  with  his  father  and  was  elected  to 
Congress  as  a  Federalist  and  twice  re-elected-serving  May  15th  1793  till 
-arch  3rd-  1803.  Little  else  is  known  of  him  but  records  show  that  his 

on, Sdward Kutledge ,  who  was  born  also  in  Charleston  in  1797  was  the  first 

of  the  line  of  Rutledges  to  swerve  from  the  fixed  proflession  of  law.  He 
studied  at  Yale  and  was  graduated  in  1817.  On  November  17th-l8l9  he  was 
admitted  to  the  orders  in  Christ  Church,  Middletown,  Conneticut  by  Biah^ 
Brownelle.  Several  years  afterwards  he  became  professor  of  moral  philos- 
ophy in  Pennsylvania  University  and  was  President  elct  of    nsylvania 

University  at  the  time  of  his  death.  M  u 

•*  -  r  Rutled&e  published  "The  Family 


&  ltar"  In  1832  and  "History  of*  the  Church  of  England  in  1825. 

The  second    , Hugh,  was  horn  in  Charleston  in  1741  and  is  not  so 
terrio]   well  know:  „     o  know  however  that  he  followed  in  his  brothers 
footsteps  in  that  he  acquired  a  legal:  education  in  London.  At  the  com- 
pletion of  lis  term  at  the  Temple,  he  returned  and  took  high  rank  at  the 

of  South  Carolina.  He  was  appointed  judge  of  Admirality  at  Charlestonn 
inl776  and  was  speaker  of  the  legislative  council  in  1777-78.  After  Sh 
Charleston  surrendered  he  was  sent  with  his  brother  Edward  and  other  pat- 
riots to  Saint  Augustine.  In  1782085  he  was  s_     r  of  the  state  houseof 
representatives,  Inl791  he  was  chosen  "by  the  legislative  hoard  as  one  Of 
the  three  judges  of  equality  as  represented  by  the  lately  enacted  lav;. 
He  filled  this  office  until  he  death, January  1811.  His  son,  Francis  Huger 
Hutledge  was  horn  in  Charleston  on   April  llth-1799.He  followed  in  the 
footsteps  of  his  fe©ofche3?  coush    .  ard  and  was  graduated  from  Yale  in 
1821  and  studied  at  the  u-eneral  Theological  Sminary  in  New  York  city.  He 
was  ordained  deacon  in  1823  and  priest  on  Nov ember  20th  1825,  He  had 
charge  of  a  church  In  Sullivans  island  in  1827-39,  was  rector  of  Trinity 
Church, Saint  Augustine  ,£'lorida-l839-45.  Following  this  he  became  rector 
at  Saint  Johns  ,Tallahasee  and  on  October  12th-l857  he  was  consecrated 
Bishop  og  Florida.  (There  is  one  point  in  the  favor  o£  the  Kutledge  family- 
they  will  head  their  state  whether  the  power  be  legislative  or  theolog- 
ical.) Then  follows,  a  gap  of  one  generation  for  I  was  unable  to  find  the 
year  in  v.rhich  his  son,  Benjamin     r  Kutledge  was  born  opythhey^aar  in 

Lch  he  died  or  anything  about  him  except  that  he  married  an  Eleanor 
Middleton  by  whom  he  had  a  son-  Bejarnin  Huger  who  was  born  in  Charleston 
South  Carolina  on  September  4th,  1861.  The  boy  was  graduated  from  Vir- 
ginia Military  Institute-Lexington, Va. in  1880-received  his  B.A  at  Yale 
in  1832.  He  married  an  Emma  Blake  of  Fletcher  N.C  on  October  5th-l892. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  South  Carolina  inl884.He  was  a  member  of 


5# 

the  firm  of "Mordecal,Gadsen.(  which  makes  one  wonder  if  it  were  a  realtion 
of  the  Gadsen  who  opposed  his  great,  great,  great  uncle  Johnin  1779  upon 
the  measure  of  South  Carolina's  neutrality  during  the  war)  and  Rutledge". 

He  was  a  major  of  the  SouthCarolina  volunteers,  clerk  of  the  judieiiary 
committee  of  South  Carolina  legislature-  four  years  a  member  of  the  South 
Carolina  general  assesiation-1890  the  electoral  messenger  from  South  Car- 
olina for  Clevelands  first  election-delegate  at  large  for  the  Universal 
Congress  of  Lawyers  and  Jurists  at  Saint  Louis  in  1904.  he  died  recently. 

The  youngest  son.  Edward,  was  horn  in  Charleston  on  :ov ember  §3rd- 
1749.  Like  his  brothers  he  too  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1773  following  which  he  established  apractise  in  ,harlestonIn  1774  Bae 
was  eke c ted  to  the  Continental  Congress  with  brother  John  and  was  one 
of  the  nine  youngest  members  of  that  body.  He  was  a  signer  of  the  dec- 
laration of  Independence  in  1776  and  a  member  of  the  first  board  of 
&'ar,  Im  this  capacity  he  was  delegated  with  John  Adams  and  benjamin  .frank- 
lin to  confer  with  Lord  Howe  on  the  subject  of  reconciliation,  but  he 
declined  to  treat  with  them  except  on  the  basis  of  complete  American  in- 
dependence. As  Lt,  Col.  of  the  Charleston  artillery  hhe  assisted  in  ex- 
pelling the  British  from  Point  Royal  in  1799  ana  in  1780  he  was  captured  . 
After  his  release  a  year  later  he  resided  in  Philadelphia  where  he  became 
a  member  of  the  Jacksonburgh  legislature  in  178fl.  After  the  war  was  over 
he  returned  to  Charleston  where  he  resumed  his  law  practise.  He  was  for 
many  years  a  member  -f  the  state  legislature  .  In  1794  he  was  elected 
United  States  senator  and  in  1798  completed  a  successful  career  by  being 
elected  the  tenth  governor  of  the  state  of  Carolina.  He  married  Harriet 
i.'iddleton,  daughter  of  Henry  Middleton  from  whom  he  had  one  daughter  and 
a  son-Henry  Middleton  who  removed  to  Ten^esee  where  he  married  a  MargeBet 
Seabrooke.  This  couple  had  a  son-Archibbald  who  was  born  on  October  23rd 
1383.  He  attended  Porter  acadamey  at  Charleston  in  1898-1900,  Union  College 


New  York  in  1904.  He  married  a  Florence  Hart  of  Winchester  Virginia  on 
December  10th-1907.  -e  is  the  author  of  many  southern  "books, among  which 
are"  South  of  Richmomd"-  "Old  Plantation  Days."  He  is  at  home  in  i.ercer- 
ber|j,  Pa. 

There  is  anatjrher  Rutledge  whose  relationship  we  can  not  exactly 
trace  and  that  is  a  certain  George  Prry  Rutledge,  clergyman  wb^o  was  horn 

Blacksburg  Va.  on  -.ay  I6th-l869-the  son  of  Andersdm  and  Ellen  Jane 
(Kirk)  Rutledge  ana  who  died  on  August  29th-19l4.  He  was  the  author  of 
hristain  hooks. 

But  the  biggest  sti;  bling   loc|l^  in  my  estimation,  is  the  fact  that 
it  is  impossible  to  definitely  trace  the  realationship  of  the  Ann  Kutledge 
with  whom  Lincoln  is  concerned.  There  is  this  much  that  we  know-that  her 

people  v^ere  of  the  same  stock  that  produced  Edward  Rutledge  and  that  they 

9 
wre  originally  South  Carolinians.  THer  father  '        leave  kept  a  tav- 

-\ 
ernin  the  thriving  little  town  of  Ne"   3a]   .  There  wwere  eleven  members 

in  the  family.  The  little  village,  though  small  and  so  young, only  two 

rs  old,  had  already  begun  to  lay  her  social  strata.  The  upper  crust 

consisted  of      irey  owners-orderly, intelligent, ambitious  to  make  a  jgood 

town-  appeasing  ne-  2      ers  with  hard  shrewd  eyes  for  they  wanted  capita], 

energy,  temperance  and  honesty  an   1  T~   11-  particulary  young, unmarfced 

1.  For  it  was  a  heavy  load  of   '       '.    :  mothers  mind  when  a  fav- 

orite  daughter  .  >d  provider  -st         iest,a       erate.  .±m 

10  has  1  ■  1     ■  ri'    is:  A  lovel;    rl-pl 

irn  hair     ':  '       -  r  Lr     lexic  .     y  lavge,  mick  foot,  ^v 

akil]  7"       t    peciall;  , however,  to  the 

f    of  th       if      ;   , 

aecess       "  eted  above  set- 

p]     1     If  definit]      quickly 


1§ 


an  •    3t  rner  F     ^   York   b  te-  he  loo]  ,   -  !   t   Lr  civ'"    , 

see         v  money.  This  i  I  Trvc  leil.T! 

two  f     rs  of  tl  zitj-        tl  John 

3  :eron-  that,  this  kind  of  timber    ;;        to  "bull 

©or  he  had  capital  end   used  11   Lth  to 

his  own  1         strictly .  Th    tl      liked  him  sc  rel]     b     ,  ^ 
thought  their  ru  luc  _   hen  he  c1       r  to       him. 

m  was  not  to  he  marriec    t  for  she      1  more  tl         in<r-a 
r  away  at  scho  >1,  an   al  ition  .     Lch  "  &• 

.  )tl    1  j    pf    i  petti  ]  -   big  fellc  , 

brawn,  over   i;  f.eettall  who  I     '    :_.   to  s  stoee-  who 

was  no  respector  of   ]   ons  for  he  made  friends  with  young  bullies 
who  periodically  frightened  and  scandalized  the  town  by  drunken  spre es- 
did  it  by  beating  their  leader  at  their  favor it   ".  "  '  of  r  ugh  and  tumble 

restling-  who     '    red  in  the  woods  \   Lt]      _  Lie  err  blacksmith,  spout- 
ing poetry-  who  cultivated  the  schoolmaster — a  grown  man  to  study      ari 
This  man  was  Abraham  Lincoln,  Bi  t         "  .  jan  to  surprise  them  for  all 
his  queerness-  for  vsibpn  he  became  partner  in  a  merger  of  three  tot^feri 
Uew  Salem  groceries.  Being  a  property  owner  gave  him  new  social  positiion 
and  as  became  the  head  of  a  business  without  a  family-  he  went  to  the 
village  tavern  to  live-  a  sturdy  four  room  log  structure  into  which  we're 
packed  in  that  mysterious  way  known  only  to  pioneers-  the  eleven  hufcledges, 
boarders  from  the  rowing  sttlement,  and  travellers  who,  passing  that  way, 
wanted  accomodation  fo*  the  night.  Needless  to  say  much  of  the  burdeis  <£ 
hospitality  fell  upon  Ann,  but  from  the  first  she  was  attracted  to  Lincoln 
and  she  to  himrthough : the  great  difference  of  elass  intervened.  Finding 
out  the  eagerness  of  Ann  and  a  younger  brother  David,  denied  to  go  away 
to  school  and  of  the  impossibility  of  doing  so-  he  began  to  teach  them 
from  his  little  store  of  knowledge.  Gradually  they  became  fast  friends, 


-.To-     I  .1  was  in  the  east  and  rarely  wrote-  the  family  grew  poorer 
)  rer.  James  Rutledge  fait  the  pinch,  gave  up  the  tavern,  and  went 
hack  to  the  land  he  had  take     m   he  first  came  to  Illinois.  Ann  want 
out  to  work,  and  many  moderns  wonder-  did  sympathy  and  condidence  "become 
love  that  summer?  Yes,  if  the  inscription  on  a  stone  slab  turned  up  thirty 
years  after  in  the  ruins  of  the  village  was  cut  by  Lincoln-  for  it  reads - 
"A.  Lincoln  and  Ann  Rutledge  were  betrothed  here  on  July  4th-l833.  Yet 
in  the  eyes  of  'New  Salem  Ann  was  still  betrothed  to  John  Mc  Neil  who  al- 
most never  wrote  now  and  who  soon  ceased  writing  entirely,  Lincoln  was 
present-  he  was  in  the  way  of  becoming  one  of  the. countrys  first  citizens-, 
He  was  fast  becoming  unofficial  town  clerk  and  advocate,  postmaster,  e. 
deputy  surveyer,  assemblyman  in  1834- .  But  in  he  year  etf  1835-  in  the 
first  year  of  his      -nil's  complete  understanding,  fever  swept  the  coun- 
ty and  dire  and  relentless  passed  from  cabin  to  cabin  and  finally  entered 
the  Kutledges  home  where  it  laid  hand  on  Ann,  worn  out  by  nursing  others. 
She, realizing  that  her  last  hbur  had  come,  sent  for  Lincoln.  He  came  and 
they  had  oner  last  hour  together  and  on  August  25th  of  her  happiest 
year,  she  died-  leaving  Lincoln  to  carry  on  alone. 

If  Ann  had  not  died  and  if  she  had  become  the  wife  of  America's  g 
greatest  citizen,  there  would  be  need,   of  further  genealogical  lore.  But 
she  did  not  and  though  Lincoln  married  later  on,  I  believe  that  his  eh 
children  were  always  in  his  imagination  the  chil  dren  of  lovely  Ann  who 
was  never  quite  out  of  his  life  and  who  was  patiently  waiting  for  him 
across  the  border  line  o.f  reality  and  heaven1  • 

Possibly  nine  out  of  ten  people  would  think  my  story  of  Ann  to  be 
unnecessary  and  trit&ly,  cheap  in  its  pathos*?  that  it  is  out  of  place  iaa 
a  crisply  concise  family  biography  as  the  fore  part  of  this  was  intended 


9# 


to  he.  But  for  that  one  person  who  sees  things  as  I  see  them,  I  offer  no 
apology-  he  will  understand] 


Finis 


I  have  used  so  many  references  that  I  have  been  unable  to  keep  track 
of  all  of  them.  But  the  principal  ones  that  I  used  are  as  follows. 

?erioda>cals-l-Colliers-February  1930 

2-Literary  Di jest-May  1919 

3-Outing-January-1908 

4-Harpers  weekly-  Eebruaey  1909 

Reference  Books- 

1 -National  Cyclopedia  of  American  biography 

2-Harpers  Ency.  of  U.S.  History 

3-Times  Sncy.  and  Gazateer 

4-Cycl.  of  American  Biog, 

5-  Dictionary  of  Nat,  Biog, 

6©  Who's  Who  In  America  '31, '14- 

7-  Sncy.  Brit. 

8-  New  Inter,  Sncy. 

I  wrote  to  many  differrent  sources  such  as  various  state  historical 
cocsities,  libraries  etc-  also  individual  men,  hut  much  of  the  material 
was  unavailable  at  the  time  of  wring  this. 


L 


RUTLEDGii   FAMILY  IN  ILLINOIS 


James  -  b.May  11,    1781,    entered   land  in  111   1828 

m.Ann   Miller  Jan25,1808    (b.Oot   31,1787     d.Deo  25   1878 

Jane     b.    hov  23   1808 
John   M.    b.    Hov. 29,    1810 
Anna  Mayes  b.Jan    7,1813 

Aug  22,    1815 
Robert  B.    b. Feb. 25,    1819 
Nancy   C.      b.    F^b.l©  1881 
Margaret   A.    B.    June  21,    1823 
Mary  A.    June   5,    1§2T~ 
Sally    f.    b.    Oct   20,    1829. 


i 


y  <u<\  \%y^ 


James   Mo  Grady  -  b.    Scpt 


29,    1814  nephew  of  above  James 


1, 


AMN  RUTLEDGE'S  FAMILY 
AlVlQtSIG  TOWN'S  SETTLERS 

linl'ield    Numbers    Descendants    of 
Lincoln's   Sweetheart 

ENFIELD,  III.,  April  28.— The 
family  of  Ann  Rutledge,  sweet- 
heart of  Lincoln  who  died  shortly 
after  he  had  proposed  marriage  to 
her,  were  among  the  early  settlers 
of   this    town.     \ 

They  lived  in  Enfield,  or  what 
was  then  Enfield,  according  to  old 
timers  of  this  district,  until  Ann 
was  grown.  Then  the  family  moved 
into  Sangamon  county,  near  New 
Salem. 

Ann  was  a  douhle  cousin  of  the 
late  Rev.  J.  M.  and  Mark  A.  Miller. 
E.  N.  Miller,  son  of  Mark,  and  a 
number  of  the  Miller  descendants 
live  in  Enfield  at  the  present  time. 


Of  few  ^aletn,  Menard  County,   Illinois 

Info rm*t ion  from  James  Hutledge  launders,  son  of  ^arah  F.   (Hutledge)  Saunders,  of 
Sisqnoc,  Cal.   to  l-rs.  F.  f.   Smith,  Greenville,  Pa. 


.     SLTLEDGE,  b.   (S.C.)  May  11,  1781,  m.  Msry  Anne  Hiller  in  Henderson  Co.,  Ey. 
Jan.  15,  1308,   and  d.   at  Petersburg,   111.  Dec.  3,  1836.     «f.  "b.  S.  C.  Oct.  21, 
1787,  d.   Birmingham,   Iowa.  Children: 

(1)  Jane  Officer  (Hutledge)  Berry,  b.  Hot.   23,  1808,  ra.  James  Berry,  and  d.  at 
Petersburg,   111.       Has  9  ch. 

(2)  John  Filler  Rut!  edge,  b.  Henderson  Co.,  Fy, ,  lov.   29,  1810,  m.  Sarah  Harris, 
May  26,  1857,  d.  ne  r  Birmingham,  Iowa,  "ey  17,  1879.     Soldier  in  Black  Hawk  Vor* 

(3)  Ann  Mayes  lutlege    ,  b.  Jan.  7,  1313,  d.   A.ug.  25,  1835.     She  was  engaged  to 
marry   "braham  Lincoln. 

(4)  D -vid  Hamilton  Hutledge,  B.  fnite  So.,   111.  Aug.  82,    L815,  m.  Elizabeth  Siestas, 
1840,  d.  Petersburg,   HI.  June  7,  1842.     Soldier  in  Black  Hawk  War.     Ho  surv.  desc. 

(5)  Robert  Braanon'sutledge ,  b.   "bite  Co.,    Ill,  Feb.  23,  1819,  d.  May  6,  1881. 

(6)  Haacy  Cameron  (Hutledge)  prewitt ,  b.  Feb.  10,  1821,  ffi.  Anthony  prewitt,  and  d. 
Jan.   IS,  1901. 

(7)  Margaret  Armstrong  Hutledge,  b.  June  21,  1823,  d.  ray  —  1864. 
^8)    -Till  lam  Blackburn  Hutledge,  b.  Sot.   39,   1825,  d.  July  26,  191.7. 

(9)  Mary  Anderson  Hutledge,  b.  June  5,  1827,  d.  July  23,  1827. 

(10)  5&ra&  p.   (Hutledge)  Saunders,  b.   at  Hew  Salem,   111.  Oct.  20,  1829,  m.  John  p. 
launders,  in  Iowa,  1852,  and  d.  at  Lonnoc,   &&m   May  1,  1922.     Had  6  ch.  Bb.  d.  I  ;  r. 
30,  1905. 


RmiDGP.  FA.ILI:  Msrk  t.   Hutledge  ra.  lancy  BOSTIC  AUG.  10,  1S?0.     mizabeth  (Hut- 
ledge)  Brlttin  was  b.    in  RTZBBmsOS  CO.   EY.   May  Jane  (Hutledge)  Halsey  d.   at 

HID,   10  A,  SEPT.   23,  1917.     The  dau.  of  Nancy  £«   (Hutledge)  Daniel  is  SARAH 
Ann  (Daniel)  Yaimey. 


Railedge  Preceded  Hughes 
In  2  Appointments  to  Bench 


Special  to  The  Keiv  York  Times. 

WASHINGTON,  Feb.  3. -The  rec- 
ords of  the  Supreme  Court  show 
that  Mr.  Hughes  is  the  second 
member  of  that  tribunal  who  re- 
signed and  was  afterward  reap- 
pointed. 

John  Rutledge  of  South  Caro- 
lina was  appointed  Associate  Jus- 
tice of  the  Supreme  Court  in  1789 
and  served  until  1791.  He  was 
elected  Chief  Justice  of  South  Car- 
olina in  1790  and  served  on  the 
State  bench  until  1795.  Then  he 
was  nominated  for  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Federal  Supreme  Court  in 
place  of  John  Jay,  resigned. 

Rutledge  resigned  his  State  posi- 
tion to  become  chief  justice  here 
and  actually  presided  at  the  Au- 
gust term  of  the  Federal  Supreme 
Court  before  the  Senate  had  acted 
on  his  nomination. 

But  on  Dec.  15,  1795,  the  Senate 
refused  to  confirm  him  and  his 
service  on  the  supreme  bench 
ended. 


Enfield  Nearly  Jinxed 
Famous  Boy  Meets  Girl  Case 


zwm 


Mrs.  Chalon  Land  (above),  Enfield  historian,  rests  her  hand  on  the  granite  tombstone  which  marks 
the  grave  of  Mrs.  Jane  Rntledge,  grandmother  of  Abe  Lincoln's  sweetheart,  Ann  Riitledge.  Enfield  was 
the  first  residence  of  the  Entledge  family  in  Illinois,  They  later  moved  to  New  Salem  where  Ann  met 
Abe  and  lived  America's  most  famous  love  story. 


ENFIELD,  111.,  Dec.  19.— (Spe- 
cial)— Glamorous  reports  of 
North  Central  Illinois  brought  to 
this  small  community  in  1827,  al- 
tered the  love  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, according  to  Mrs.  Chalon 
Land,  one  of  White  County's  most 
avid  historians. 

"It,  was  those  glowing  reports," 
Mrs.  Land  said,  "which  influenced 
the  Rutledge  family  to  leave  their 
160-acre  farm  here  in  Enfield  and 
trek  on  to  Menard  County  where 
they  founded  the  town  of  New 
Salem. 

"It  was  in  New  Salem  that  Ab- 
raham Lincoln  met  Ann  Rutledge 
and  courted  her. 

"The  Rutledges  stayed  here  in 
Enfield  Township  about  15  years, 
but  several  of  the  children  of 
Thomas  married  here,  and  didn't 
move  with  the  rest  of  the  family 
to  New  Salem. 

ft        ft        ft 

"Thomas  Rutledge's  daughter, 
Jane,  who  had  married  James 
Miller  stayed  here,  and  her 
grandmother  .  .  .  Also  Ann's 
grandmother,  Jane  Rutledge, 
stayed  with  them. 

"Ann's  grandmother  died  here 
in  her  eighty-fifth  year,  and  is 
buried  in  Enfield  Cemetery  with 
her  namesake. 

"Those  of  us  here  who  are  in- 
terested in  early  county  history 
still  wonder  how  history  might 
have  been  changed  if  the  Rut- 
ledges  had  never  left  Enfield,  and 
Abraham  Lincoln  had  never  had 
the  unfortunate  love  affair  with 
Ann  Rutledge  Which  made  him  a 
graver  and  greater  man.'' 

Enfield  today  presents  quite  a 
complacent  exterior,  but  in  days 
gone  by  it  has  seen  the  coming 


and  going  of  many  people  famous 
in  the  history  of  our  nation. 

Back  in  1813,  some  40  years 
before  the  town  itself  was  found- 
ed, a  large  family  came  to  En- 
field Township  and  settled  on 
Seven  Mile  Creek  less  than  a 
mile  from  the  present  town. 

They  didn't  stay  long  at  En- 
field; just  long  enough  to  leave 
their  family  stamp  on  the  Tri- 
State  community. 

That  family's  name  was  Rut- 
ledge. and  the  name  has  become 
immortal  in  America  because  the 
daughter  of  the  family,  Ann,  was 
the  true  love  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln. 

On  the  year  the  Rutledges  set- 
tled 160  acres  in  the  township 
they  had  come  from  Henderson 
County,  Kentucky,  where  Ann 
had  been  born.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  James  Rutledge  who 
had  come  there  with  his  three 
brothers,  Thomas,  William,  and 
Robert. 

Although  the  Rutledge  name  is 
no  longer  heard  in  Enfield  many 
people  there  can  trace  their  an- 
cestry back  to  the  famous  fam- 
ily. 

ft        ft        ft 

In  the  days  when  the  Rut- 
ledges  were  making  their  trek 
that  carried  them  from  South 
Carolina  to  Enfield,  111.,  via 
Georgia,  Tennessee,  and  Ken- 
tucky, communities  were  far  and 
few  between.  Settlers'  traveled 
closely  together,  and  after  a  few 
years  of  safarai  were  almost  all 
related  by  marriage. 

And  that  same  condition  holds 
true  in  Enfield  today.  All  of  the 
old  families  are  in  some  way  re- 
lated  by  marriage. 

"My  husband,  Chalon,"  Mrs. 
Land  says,  "is  related  to  the 
Rutledges,  as  are  many  other 
families  here  in  Enfield.  Thomas 


Rutledge    was    his    great-great- 
great-grandfather. 

"Another  Enfield  man  descend- 
ed from  Thomas  is  Mike  Miller 
who  today  owns  the  Rutledge 
land  deed  drawn  in  1820  and 
signed  by  President  James  Mon- 
roe. 

"To  understand  how  this  proc- 
ess of  intermarriage  has  gone  on 
through  the  years  just  look  at 
the  ancestry  of  the  1942  graduat- 
ing class  from  Enfield  High 
School. 

ft        ft ft 

"Of  that  class  of  50  students 
over  one-fourth  of  them  were 
descended  from  Thomas  Rutledge 
and  Peter  Miller,  who  incidental- 
ly were  brothers-in-law  and  who 
were  the  first  teachers  in  En- 
field  School: 

"Included  in  that  line  of  de-' 
scendency  are  the  present  prin- 
cipal and  one  of  the  teachers  at 
our  scftool,  Walter  A.  Mille  •  and 
Miss    Ratherine    Hanagan." 

"The  Rutledges  were  not  the 
first  settlers.  Other  pioneer 
names,  still  here  today,  are  the 
Millers,  Gowdys,  Orrs,  Mayes, 
and  Trousdales. 

"An  old  diary  in  the  Gowdy 
family  relates  an  incident  which 
happened  when  Thomas  Rutledge 
conducted  a  school  in  the  town- 
ship. He  soundly  whipped  one  of 
the  Gowdy  boys  for  advancing 
theories  which  the  schoolmaster 
felt  were  foolish  and  impractical, 
ft        ft        ft 

"The  visionary  Gowdy  lad  had 
told  his  teacher  that  he  some 
day  felt  that  man  would  fly 
through  the  air.  and  be  able  to 
talk  from  ocean  to  ocean." 

The  Rutledges  also  founded  on 
their  farm  the  first  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  state  of  Illinois. 
They  called  it  the  old  Sharon 
Church. 


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H^MO  of  the  most  romantic  figures  in  the  days  when  Philadelphia  was  the 
Capital  of  the  United  States  were  General  John  Rutledge  and  his  gay  wife, 
the  former  Sarah  Mott  Smith.  The  exhibition  at  the  Corcoran  Gallery  of  Art 
includes  the  miniature  of  the  general,  painted  by  Charles  Fraser,  right,  and  that 
of  Mrs.  Rutledge,  painted  by  Edward  Greene  Malbone,  left.  Both  were  loaned 
by  Miss  Kate  W.  Rutledge.    Gen.  Rutledge  was  the  son  of  John  Rutledge,  who 


was  made  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  1795  by  W\SharPles  Married 

One  of  His  Students. 


James  Sharpies,  born  in  England 
about  1751,  was  at  first  educated 
for  the  priesthood  and  then  turned 
to  art.  He  made  steady  progress  in 
this,  especially  in  the  line  of  por- 
traiture. Before  he  met  Ellen  Wal- 
lace in  an  art  class  in  Bath,  England, 
he  had  been  married  twice  and  was 
a  widower  with  two  children,  a  son 
by  each  former  wife. 

Sharpies  was  the  instructor  in  this 
art  class  and  Ellen  Wallace  one  of 
his  pupils.  The  romance  began  then 
and  soon,  according  to  Mrs.  Knox's 
book,  "The  Sharpies  and  Their 
Work,"  Sharpies  was  talking  of 
adding  new  furniture  and  embellish- 
ments to  his  home  in  preparation 
of  "an  important  event  which  was 
soon  to  take  place."  Doubtless  this 
important  event  was  his  marriage 
to  Ellen  Wallace,  said  to  have  taken 
place  in  1787. 

"Miss  Wallace,"  writes  Mrs.  Mc- 
Cook  Knox,  "was  many  years  his 
junior  and  came  of  a  Quaker  fam- 
ily. Pretty,  talented  and  a  'young 
lady  of  fashion,'  she  was  living  with 
her  mother  in  Bath." 

"A  seemingly  impenetrable  ob- 
scurity," continues  Mrs.  Knox,  "sur- 
rounds their  courtship  and  mar- 
riage, but  it  must  have  taken  place 


"In  lovely  White's  most  pleasing 

form. 
What  various  graces  meet! 
How    blest    with    ever    striking 

charm! 
How  languishingly  sweet." 

On  March  2.  1769  they  were  mar- 
ried, when  Morris  was  35  years 
and  she  but  20. 

In  the  sad  last  years  of  Morris' 
life  she  clung  to  him.  After  his  re- 
lease from  prison  she  nursed  him 
tenderly  until  he  died.  Mrs.  Mor- 
ris survived  her  husband  by  21 
years.  When  Lafayette  came  to 
Philadelphia  in  1824  she  accompa- 
nied him  to  the  grand  ball  given 
by  the  City  of  Philadelphia  in  his 
honor,  although  in  her  seventy- 
sixth  year. 

Exhibition  Recalls 
Another  Famed  Morris. 

Another  Morris,  signer  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  whose 
romance  is  recalled  by  portraits  in 
the  exhibition,  is  Lewis  M'orris,  last 
patroon  of  Morrisania  Manor.  His 
portrait  is  by  John  Wollaston  and 
was  loaned  by  the  Kenmore  Asso- 
ciation, The  A.  W.  Mellon  Educa- 
tional and  Charitable  Trust  has 
given  the  companion  portrait  of 
Mrs.  Lewis  Morris,  also  by  John 
Wollaston. 

Mrs.  Lewis  Morris  was  Miss  Mary 
Walton,  daughter  of  Jacob  Walton, 
.leading  New  York  merchant,  who 
married  him  in  1749. 


Colonial  Romances 
Recalled  by  Pictures 

Love    Affair    of    Ann    Rutledge    and    Abraham 

Lincoln  Lives  Again  When  One  Views  Painting 

of  Gen.  Rutledge,  Her  Forebear. 


Catherine  Greene,  second  cousin  of 
Gov.  William  Greene.  As  said  be- 
fore, Gov.  William  Greene,  of  Revo- 
lutionary fame,  was  their  son.  She 
was  married  to  Gov.  Greene  in  1719, 
and  their  romance  was  one  of  the 
best-known  love  stories  of  the  time. 

A  beautiful  miniature  by  Charles 
Peale  Polk,  lent  by  Mrs.  Miles 
White,  jr.,  shows  the  lovely  young 
features  of  Nelly  Custis,  step- 
grandchild  of  George  Washington, 
who  represents  the  last  romance 
connected  with  Washington's  family. 

Gazing  at  this  miniature,  one  is 
carried  by  the  magic  of  imagination 
to  the  festive  scene  at  Mount  Ver- 
non, February  22,  1799,  the  last 
birthday  George  Washington  was 
+o  kpov^-  There  -was  another  reason 

?r  joy,  however.  On  that  day  Nelly 
Justis  was  to  wed  there  Lieut. 
Lawrence  Lewis,  of  the  Light  Dra- 
goon Corps,  nephew  of  George 
Washington  and  son  of  his  sister, 
Betty  Washington  Lewis. 

Leivis  Romance    . 
Dated  From  Childhood. 

The  entire  country  was  interested 
in  this  romance.  Something  of  the 
glamour  that  was  Nellie  Grant's, 
Alice  Roosevelt's,  and  other  daugh- 
ters of  Presidents  later,  had  sur- 
rounded Nelly  Custis. 

Naturally,  the  beaux  of  the 
countryside  had  not  been  indiffer- 
ent to  her  charms.  But  her  heart 
was  in  the  keeping  of  her  first 
sweetheart,  Cousin  Lawrence  Lewis 
of  Kenmore. 

Often,  when  Nelly  Custis  was  a 
child,  the  Lewis  coach  would  bring 
little  Lawrence  and  his  brother  to 
visit  "Uncle  George"  at  Mount 
Vernon.  Then  were  merry  times, 
hide  and  seek,  tag,  nut  hunting,  and 
other  games.  From  the  first  little 
Nelly  and  Lawrence  were  close 
friends.  Always  they  chose  each 
other  in  the  games.  Lawrence  would 
even  admit  that  Nelly  could  climb 
a  tree  as  fast  as  he  could. 

George  Washington  left  Nelly 
Custis  Lewis  lovely  Woodlawn  in 
nearby  Virginia,  now  the  home  of 
Mrs  Oscar  Underwood,  widow  of 
the  '  late  Senator  from  Alabama. 
There  the  young  couple  built  the 
home  still  standing  today,  a  model 
of  Colonial  architecture.  It  was 
designed  by  Dr.  William  Thornton, 
architect  of  the  Capitol. 

Lawrence  Lewis  died  in  1839,  but 
his  widow  survived  him  by  13  years. 
She  could  not  bear  the  memories  of 
Woodlawn  after  his  death  and  went 
to  live  at  Audley,  in  the  Shenandoah 
Valley.  On  July  15,  1852,  Mrs. 
Lewis  died  and  her  funeral  took 
place  in  the  drawing  room  of  Mount 
Vernon,  where  she  had  been  mar- 
ried. 

Once  more  we  return  to  the  por- 
trait of  George  Washington  em- 
broidered on  silk  and  it  tells  a 
touching  romance  of  the  woman 
who  wrought  it  in  the  long  ago 
and  the  artist  she  loved  and  mar- 
ried. 


soon  after  the  death  of  James  Shar- 
pies' second  wife." 

In  1793  the  Sharpies  family  left 
for  America.  En  route  their  boat 
was  captured  by  a  French  privateer 
and  the  passengers  interned  at 
Brest.  Finally  they  reached  Amer- 
ica, where  Sharpies  painted  many 
portraits  of  noted  men  and  the  little 
family  settled  in  Philadelphia  for  a 
time.  In  1801  they  returned  to  Eng- 
land.  In  1808  they  returned  to  the 
United  States  and  set  up  house- 
keeping in  what  is  now  Greenwich 
Village,  in  New  York  City. 

For  three  years  they  lived  there, 
James  Sharpies  adding  to  his  fame 
and  his  collection  of  portraits  of 
American  notables  year  by  year.   In. 

J310  hie  hoalth  hcgan  tn  fail  and   his 

family  became  much  alarmed.  Ev- 
ery effort  to  cure  him  was  without 
avail.  On  February  26.  1811,  Shar- 
pies died.  His  children,  Felix, 
James,  jr.,  and  Roljnda,  followed  in 
the  footsteps  of  their  father  and 
achieved  considerable  fame  on  their 
own  account  as  artists. 

As  a  miniature  painter  the  work 
of  Ellen  Sharpies  and  her  drawings 
and  pastels  have  been  highly  praised 
by  critics  and  are  cherished  in  mu- 
seums today.  Altogether  this  farri- 
ily  presents  a  remarkable  example 
of  genius  throughout  practically  its 
entire  membership. 

Romance  touched  the  life,  too,  of 
Robert  Morris,  also  of  Philadelphia, 
financier  of  the  Revolution  and 
signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence and  the  Constitution.  Col. 
Robert  Morris  has  sent. his  portrait 
of  Robert  Morris,  by  Gilbert  Stuart, 
to  the  exhibition,  and  there  is  also  * 
miniature  of  Robert  Morris  by  an 
unknown  artist  loaned  by  Mrs.  Alba 
Davis  Walling.  The  party  of  the 
second  part  of  his  romance  is  de- 
picted in  the  present  exhibition  in 
a  portrait  by  Gilbert  Stuart  in 
which  only  the  face  is  completed. 
It  is  finished  enough,  however,  to 
realize  what  a  gracious,  lovely 
woman  she  must  have  been. 

Morris  Family 

Led  Eventful  Life. 

She  was  a  loyal  wife,  for  her 
matrimonial  experiences  with  Mor* 
ris  ranged  from  being  the  queen  of 
his  stately  household  to  staying  by 
his  side  in  a  debtor's  prison. 

Mrs.  Robert  Morris  was  Miss 
Mary  White,  daughter  of  Col. 
Thomas  White,  of  Maryland,  and 
sister  of  that  rising  young  cleric, 
the  Rev.  William  White,  first  Bishop 
of  Pennsylvania.  Col.  Shippen,  a 
colonial  poet,  had  sung  her  charm 
in  measured  words  as»follows: 


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BIBLE  OF  RUTLEDGE  FAMILY 


The    picture    shows     the    Butledge 
I  family  Bible,  one  of  the  many  relics 
in    the    Lincoln    museum    opened    re- 
cently at  New  Salem,  111.    The  Bible, 
yellowed  with  age,  contains  the  birth 


and  death  records  of  Ann  Butledge. 
Lincoln's  first  sweetheart,  to  whom 
he  was  engaged  at  the  time  of  her 
death.  Her  death  stamped  melan- 
choly on  Lincoln's  face  that  remained 
throughout  his  life. 


RUTLSDGE      FAMILY 


-       tutledge  signer  of  declaration  of  Tndependehce 
jomi  November  174*  at    Ilharlestown,    S.  0.      Nov  23. 

;her  Dr.    John   Rutledge     .  native   of  Ireland   ...   rried  Sarah   --Tert 
tudied   law  with   elder  orotherStudent   in  England  in    1739 
Returned   1773    to  practice   1  °  t 

In   1774  elected   to    continental    congress 
In  1779  led  his    sorapany    igainst  British  at  &oint   pjoyal 
1739  elected  governor  of  south  Carolina 
Died  in  office   jan  33,    1800 
First    .ife  Harriet   d.    of  Henry  pddleton 

30n    ' oghter  by   this    union  his   ^on   Maj    Heni7     ;«    to    Term. 


RUTLEDGE 

Of  New  salem,  Menard  County,  Illinois 

Information  from  James  Rutledge  Saunders,  son  of  Sarah  F.  (Rutledge)  Saunders,  of 
Sisquoc,  Cal.  to  Mrs.  F.  W.  Smith,  Greenville,  pa. 

JAMES  RUTLEDGE,  b.  (S.C.)  May  11,  1781,  m.  Mary  Anne  Miller  in  Henderson  Co.,  Ky. 
Jan.  15,  1808,  and  d.  at  Petersburg,  111.  Dec.  3,  1836.  Wf.  b.  S.  C  Oct.  21, 
1787,  d.  Birmingham,  Iowa.  Children: 

(1)  Jane  Officer  (Rtitledge)  Serry,  b.  Nov.  23,  1808,  m.  James  Berry,  and  d.  at 
Petersburg,  111.   Had  S  ch. 

(2)  John  Miller  Rutledge,  b.  Henderson  Co.,  Ky.  ,  Nov.  29,  1810,  m.  Sarah  Harris, 
May  26,  1857,  d.  near  Birmingham,  Iowa,  May  17,  1879.   Soldier  in  Black  Hawk  War. 

(3)  Ann  Mayes  Rutledge,  b.  Jan.  7,  1813,  d.  Aug.  25,  1835.   She  was  engaged  to 
marry  Abraham  Lincoln. 

(4)  Dsvid  Hamilton  Rutledge,  B.  White  Co.,  111.  Aug.  22,  1815,  m.  Elizabeth  Simms, 
1840,  d.  Petersburg,  111.  June  7,  1842.   Soldier  in  Black  Hawk  War.  No  surv.  desc. 

(5)  Robert  Brannon  Rutledge,  b.  White  Co.,  Ill,  Feb.  23,  1819,  d.  May  6,  1881. 

(6)  Nancy  Cameron  (Rutledge)  prewitt ,  b.  Feb.  10,  1821,  m.  Anthony  prewitt,  and  d. 
Jan.  16,  1901. 

(7)  Margaret  Armstrong  Rutledge,  b.  June  21,  1823,  d.  May  —  1864. 

(8)  William  Blackburn  Rutledge,  b.  Nov.  29,  18S5,  d.  July  26,  1917. 

(9)  Mary  Anderson  Rutledge,  b.  June  5,  1827,  d.  July  23,  1827. 

(10)  Sarah  F.  (Rutledge)  Saunders,  b.  at  New  Salem,  111.  Oct.  20,  1329,  m.  John  p. 
Saunders,  in  Iowa,  1852,  and  d.  at  Lonrooc  ,  Cal.  May  1,  1922.  Had  6  ch.  Hb.  d.  Mar. 
30,  1905. 


RUTLEDGE  FAMILY:  Mark  L.  Rutledge  m.  Nancy  B0STIC  AUG.  10,  1820.  Elizabeth  (Rut- 
ledge) Brittin  was  b.  in  HENDERSON  CO.  KY.  May  Jane  (Rutledge)  Halsey  d.  at 
MADRID,  IOWA,  SEPT.  23,  1917.  The  dau.  of  Nancy  E.  (Rutledge)  Daniel  is  SARAH 
Ann  (Daniel )  Yanney. 


ILLINOIS     STATE 


Mrs.  Park,  Kin  Of 
Ann  Rutledge,  Dies 

Lifelong  Menard  Resident 
91  Years  Old. 


Petersburg,  June  10. — Mrs.  Har- 
riet Rutledge  Pajk,  second  cousin 
of  Ann  Rutledge,  died  at  her  home 
in  this  city  at  11:30  a.  m.  Wednes- 
day following  a  long  illness.  She 
was  91  years  old  and  had  been  a 
lifelong  resident  of  Menard  county. 
Mrs.  Park  was  born  northwest 
of  Petersburg,  the  daughter  of 
James  McGrady  and  Margaret 
(Harris)  Rutledge.  She  married  An- 
drew Park  who  preceded  her  in 
death  in  1931.  They  operated  a 
farm  in  this  community  until  thir- 
ty years  ago  when  they  retired  and 
moved  to  this  city. 

Surviving  are  one  son,  James 
Park,  Petersburg;  one  daughter, 
Miss  Stella  Park,  at  home;  three 
grandchildren  and  four  great- 
grandchildren; one  sister,  Mrs. 
Emma  Houghton,  and  one  brother, 
Harve  Rutledge,  both  of  Peters- 
burg. 

Remains  were  removed  Wednes- 
day evening  from  Thompson  & 
Harms  funeral  home  to  the  resi- 
dence. Funeral  services  will  be 
held  at  3  p.  m.  Friday  at  Central  ( 
Presbyterian  church,  Rev.  Grant 
Mason  officiating.  Burial  will  be 
in  Oakland  cemetery. 


F.  M  E. — Several  of  us  are  unable  to  find 
anything  in  encyclopedias  about  ^nn  Rut- 
ledge,  and  would  like  to  know  who  she  waa. 
when   she   lived,    and    what    she    was    lamoua 

for Ann    Rutledge    was    bom    in   Kentucky, 

January  7.  1813,  the  daughter  of  Jamea 
Rutledge.  who  removed  with  his  family  to 
New  Salem.  Ill  .  where  he  set  up  a  tavern. 
At  the  age  of  seventeen.  Ann  became  en- 
gaffed  to  a  stranger,  John  McNeill,  who 
came  from  the  east,  and  prospered  in  the 
village.  He  returned  east  to  get  his  par- 
ents, and.  owing  to  his  lone  absence.  Ann 
was  persuaded  that  his  ardor  had  cooled. 
About  this  time  Abraham  Lincoln,  then  a 
law  student,  came  to  live  at  the  Rutledgo 
tavern.  He  consoled  Ann  in  her  gnef  and 
his  interest  grew  into  love.  They  became  en- 
paged  in  the  spring  of  1835,  agreeing  that 
they  would  be  married  the  following  year, 
when  Ann  had  completed  her  schooling  at 
the  Jacksonville  Academy,  and  Lincoln  had 
been  admitted  to  the  bar.  In  August. 
1835.  however.  Ann  fell  ill  and  died  Lin- 
coln is  said  to  have  carried  the  shadow  of 
this  tragedy  through  his  life.  In  January, 
19-11,  a  granite  monument  wa*  erected  upon 
her  grave  in  Oakland  cemetery.  Petersburg. 
111.  It  is  inscribed  with  Edgar  Lee 
ter'i  poem,   "Aon  Rutledge." 


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