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PRESIDENT WASN'T ON DRUNK,BUT SICK, SAID FORT WORTH KIN
A Fort Worth woman liveed in the White House for two years during President Andrew Johson's Administration, and watched history being made.
She was Mrs. Winfield Scott Tipton, whose home at 3800 Mattison Ave. was one of the first houses built in Arlington Heghts in 1907.
Mrs Tipton, as 16-years old Sara Stover, was given a home in the White House by her Aujnt, Mrs. Mary Johnson Stover, President Johnson's youngest sister.
Johnson became president after Lincoln's assassination in 1865. The rumor tyhat he was drunk when inaugurated was branded false by Mrs. Tipton. She said Johnson was ill with typhoid fever, and had been dosed with medicines and wine by the doctor.JOHNSON IMPEACHED
Johson was the only United State President ever impeached. The Senate, however, defeated by one vote the resolution to remove him from office.
Mrs. Tipton declared in later years that Johnson blamed his difficulties on Rep. Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Both were bitter enemies of the defeated, Confederacy, and were furious when Johnson opposed Nergro suffage and vetoed some of the harder reconstruction laws for the South.A WOMAN HANGED
Johson's ousting of Secretary of War Staton, his undercover foe, and his refusal to pardon Mrs. Surratt, hanged for complicity in the John Wilkes Booth plot that led to Lincoln's assassination, also made him unpopular in Congress, Mrs. Tipton said.
Mrs. Tipton's husband died in 1941 at the age of 94. He came from Tennessee in 1877 with his wife and opened a store in Handley because he thought that town outstrip Fort Worth. Later, he because a Stephens County rancher and a clerk in the railway mail service.
Eugene Tipton, son of the couple retired here three years ago as acting superintendent of the 11th Division, Railway Service, and now he lives in Breckenridge. ( Fort Worth Texas Paper)LINCOLN'S FAMILY
To the editor of the New York Times :
I have just read tour editoral article on Lincoln, and your comments on the recent book by Miss Ida M. Tarbell, and thinking that some history of the Tennessee branch of the Lincoln family might be interesting, I gave you the following:
Abraham Lincoln had an uncle named Isaac who lived in the far-framed Watauga Valley of Tennessee, where the first settlements were made in the State. Isaac Lincoln was a large land owner, and also a slave owner. The records in the carter County Court House attest this. The Will of Isaac Lincoln is on record, and it shows he owned large bodies of land, and in it he mentions several slaves by name. He gave most of his property to his wife, Mary Ward Lincoln. The Will of Mrs. Lincoln is also on record, and was drawn up by the famous lawyer, Thomas A. R. Nelson, who was one of the great lawyers of his day. In this will Mrs. Lincoln mentions thirty-four slaves by name, and she gave most of her property to her nephew, William Stover, as after the death of their only child (who was drowned in the Watauga River) they took the nephew, Willam Stover, son of Daniel and Phoebe ward Stover, and Brought him up as their own child. The Lincolns mingled in the highest social circles, and numbered among their friends some of Tennessee's leading families. Isaac Lincoln was a man of splendid ability... and was one of the richest men of that section. Mrs. Lincoln was also a woman of remarkable ability and after the death of her husband added to her possessions, both real and personal, and was the wealthiest woman of her section.
Willaim Stover married Miss Sarah Drake of the well known and prominent Drake family of Virginia, and to him born three sons, Daniel, Samuel,Murray, and David Lincoln Stover. And strange to say, Daniel married Miss Mary Johnson, Daughter of Andrew Johnson and thus in a way connected the lincoln and Johnson families. Samuel Murray married Miss Carrie Brooks of the prominent Brooks family of South Carolina and David Lincoln married Miss Josephine Gains, a first cousin of Miss Brooks, who was also of a prominent South Carolina. When the great war between the States burst forth Daniel Stover cast his lot with his distinguished father-in-law, Andrew Johnson, and jioned the Federal Army and was made Colonel of the second Tennessee Infantry, and died of decease at Gallatin, Tennessee Samuel Marray Stover cast lot with the Confederate Ststes and was a physician in the army of General Lee.
The Watauga Valley was the home of several of tennessee's most distinguished families, among them the Illustrious Carter family one of whom, Admiral Samuel P. Carter, held both the title of Admiral in the Navy and General in the Army, and is the only American citizen who has held both these titles, Here lived the prominent Taylor Family that has given Governers, Congressmen and United States Senators to Tennessee. Here lived the well known Tipton Family, who have always figured prominently in Tennessee history. It was in this valley that lived the distinguished lawyer, Thomas A. R. Nelson, Whom Andrew Johnson selected as oneof his counsel in the celebrated impeachment Trial.
I mention these families to show the prominence of the Lincoln family as they were friends and associates of all these families.James D. Jenkins
Brooklyn, Feb. 12, 1924
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