MRS. MARY LINCOLN - Biography

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This biography appears on page 655 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

MRS. MARY LINCOLN, Union Grove; widow of Fordyce T. Lincoln, who was
born in Worcester Co., Mass., 1803, and died Feb. 22, 1872; Mrs. Lincoln
was Mary D. Purves, a native of Scotland, and was born in 1805, and
married Jan. 25, 1819 (Burns' birthday); have had nine children, three
living-- Edward, born 1832; David, 1834, and Henry, 1836 George, a son
of fine promise, enlisted in the 2d Wis., Co. F, was killed at the
battle of Winchester; he was a brave soldier; was the color-bearer, and
died nobly doing his duty. Mr. Lincoln, with his wife, came to Wisconsin
among the first, and bought 165 acres of land; they suffered many
hardships, but, through industry and perseverance, they accumulated a
competence; a son, David Lincoln, is a very successful commission
merchant of Chicago, and has held the honorable position of President of
the Board of Trade.