Lincoln Family - Henry Isaac Lincoln - Life sketch

This was found on 24 October 2022 at http://genealogytrails.com/ill/lee/biosL.html. I do not know who wrote it. This sketch reads as:

Henry Isaac Lincoln, son of John L. and Lydia (Gifford) Lincoln of Genesee County, New York, was born on 16 August, 1822, in Corfu, N.Y. In 1847 Henry and his brother Royal loaded a wagon with nursery stock and set off for northern Illinois to seek their fortune. As they passed through the area where the City of Chicago would one day be the reigning city of the Mid-west., they were offered a good-sized plot of "downtown" land in exchange for the wagon and team. But their thoughts were on farming and the swamp land near the lake held no interest for the brothers.

Proceeding west they eventually reached Kendall County, Illinois, where their paternal uncle, Jedediah Lincoln , had preceded them. They obtained a farm on the far western edge of Little Rock Township and set about improving the land. Henry taught school some years, probably at Sandy Bluff School just south of the farm. Henry married Mary McFarland on 28 October 1850 in Kendall County, Il., although she was living nearby in Big Rock, Kane Co. Il. She was born on 3 December 1831 and died on 23 November 1854, possibly as the result of the birth of her second son. Two sons were the issue of this first marriage. John Henry was born in 1852 but passed away in 1856 but passed away in 1856 when he was three, (Charles) Frank was born in 1854. He grew to maturity and married Etta Keiser. Their two sons were John Henry and Arthur Shelby Lincoln.

In 1853, Royal had married a neighborhood girl, Rebecca Cook, and the two home situations apparently encouraged Henry Isaac to decide to move on to Franklin Grove, Lee Co., Illinois, and try his hand at the mercantile business. He built a two-story limestone store building (pictured above)[?] on the Main Street and, for the next fifty years, he served the people of the community. In April of 1857 Henry Isaac Married Helen May (Nay) Barthoff. She had been born in Darien, Genesee Co., N.Y. on 15 April 1828. She passed away on 4 January 1893 in Mound City, Kansas. She was there on a vacation that, it had been hoped, would improve her health. Her body was returned to Franklin Grove for burial there. Henry and Helen May had three children, Hattie McFarland Lincoln was born in 1858 and may have died in 1880/ Her marriage to Shelly Keiser in January of 1884. Abraham Lincoln was born in  1869 and lived until 1943. His wife, Elizabeth Williamson joined him on 22 February 1883. Abraham and his son Harry A. moved to Pleasanton, Kansas, where they opened a mercantile store together. Hames Henry Lincoln, born in 1862, lived until 1943 also. He was known as an artist in the Franklin Grove community. He married Martha J. Bill on 12 November 1890.

Henry died in late June of 1904 after a life spent as a farmer, a teacher and a storekeeper. He was a long-time supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was buried in the cemetery at Franklin Grove. Among those surviving Henry were three siblings. Elizabeth (late Levi) Colby, John (late Achsa)Lincoln, and Helene Louise (Richard R.) Losee, all of Genesee Co., N.Y. He was also survived by the spouses of several siblings: Harriet Herrick Lincoln, Rebecca Cook Lincoln, William Bullard, John D. Sitts (death date unknown), and Richard R. Losee, numerous cousins, nephews, and nieces, in addition to his own family. He had been predeceased by his parents John and Lydia (Gifford) Lincoln of Genesee Co., N.Y., and by siblings. Sylvester C. (Harriet) Lincoln of Beloit, WI., Royal Orlando (Rebecca) Lincoln of Plano, Kendall Co., IL., Lurrency (William) Bullard and Amarella (late Cyrus) Waite, both of Genesee Co., N.Y., and Evaline (John) Sitts of Franklin Grove, IL., [Source:Unknown;transcribed] by GTHOST].

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