families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, some others in Macon county, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham county, Virginia, to Kentucky, about 1781-2, where, a year

Andrew Snyder A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER WHO REACHED THE AGE OF 112 YEARS By OLIVER SNYDER SPROUT Andrew Snyder was born in Switzerland in the year 1733. Family tradi- tion states that he arrived on these shores during the year 1766. I. Daniel Rupp in his "Thirty Thousand Names of Immigrants," p. 368