PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S WIFE
... It has been ascertained, good authority, that Mrs, Lincoln, the wife of the late President, is native of Monmouthshire. Her maiden name was Jenkins, and her father was for some time sexton of St. Paul's Church, Newport. He married a Miss Russell. who was the employ of Sir Thomas Salisbury, of Llanwern, and the issue the marriage was two daughters. The family afterwards emigrated America, and ...