Lincoln, Mordecai

Born: 1771 Virginia

Died: 1831 Hancock County, Illinois

Mordecai was Abraham Lincoln's uncle, being the brother of Abraham's father, Thomas. Mordecai married Mary Mudd in Bardstown, Kentucky, and they had six children. In 1830, Mordecai followed his family members in moving to Hancock County, Illinois, where he died shortly afterward.

Abraham Lincoln to Jesse Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln to Jesse W. Fell; David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 20-21; William E. Burton, "Abraham Lincoln's Ancestry," Indiana History Bulletin 2, no. 4 (January 1925), 55-76; Carthage Republican (IL), 29 April 1914, 8:2; Louis A. Warren, Lincoln's Parentage and Childhood (New York: Century, 1926), 8-9, 14, 382.