Johnston, Jr., John D.

Born: 1854-04-11 Coles County, Illinois

As the son of Abraham Lincoln's stepbrother, John D. Johnston, John D. Johnston, Jr. was Lincoln's nephew. Born just ten days after his father's death, he lived in Charleston, Illinois through the end of the Civil War.

Lincoln Family Record; Kenneth J. Winkle, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (Dallas: Taylor Trade, 2001), 147; Illinois, U.S., State Census Collection, 1825-1865, 1865, Charleston, Coles County, 10-11 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2008).