Word: hankses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The ROTC Quartermaster Corps at the Business School here is of much higher calibre than average," the Colonel declared, "and I have been trying to get some of the graduates as instructors." He cited as an example Lester Hanks, who went on from here to the highest grade in the...
The story that Abraham Lincoln is the illegitimate son of John C. Calhoun (TIME, Oct. 27) is a legend that has existed in the Carolinas for 100 years, and in spite of all sorts of proofs that it cannot be true it continues on. It makes the Calhouns very angry...
Once about two years ago I asked my Uncle Wade O'Dell at Liberty, S.C., if he had ever heard the Hanks story. He began to tell me what he had heard and as he was talking my Aunt Bettie came into the room. She said with indignation, "I...
...Mountains have tried to prove that he was illegitimate. The Calhoun theory was not new. When it was first advanced, in 1911, it was soon shown that the Nancy Hanks in the case eventually became a respectable Mrs. South. But there still remained: 1) at least 20 other Nancy Hankses, each of whom is claimed to have borne Abe Lincoln; 2) nine alleged fathers. In the course of a rambling book (Random Thoughts and the Musings of a Mountaineer-Rowan Printing Co., Salisbury, N.C.; $2.50), Judge Felix E. Alley announced that he has found the right Nancy Hanks...
His story: the real Nancy Hanks, the natural daughter of a well-born Virginia planter, was a pretty barmaid at her Aunt Ann's tavern at Craytonville, S.C. Calhoun, who was just beginning law practice, stopped there often on his way home from court. When Nancy was discovered pregnant...