Rachel Shipley

- Aft 1797

• Name	Rachel Shipley  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 19 Aug 1797  [2]
  Person ID	I37152	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family	Richard Berry, Sr.   d. Between 19 Aug 1797 and 4 Dec 1798, Washington County, Kentucky
  Children	+ 1. Richard Berry, Jr.,   b. 1769   d. 1843, Calloway County, Missouri (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F21854	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  She was an older sister of Lucy (Shipley) Hanks, wife of James Hanks. Lucy and James have been hypothesized as the parents of Abraham Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks, although recent DNA evidence appears to tend away from this theory. It is certainly true, however, that Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's parents, were married in 1806 at the Berry family home, by then the home of her son Richard Berry Jr.; and that, moreover, Richard Berry Jr. signed the marriage bond as "gardin" (i.e., guardian) to Nancy Hanks.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6186] Lincoln Homestead State Historic Site Historic Pocket Brochure text. [S6185] Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories by J. Estelle Stewart King. Originally published 1933; reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1969., first name only.