Mary Brooks
(1766-1843)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Isom Enlow
2. Thomas Wells Rathbone

Mary Brooks 4

  • Born: 3 May 1766, Brooks, , Kentucky, United States 5 6
  • Marriage (1): Isom Enlow on 25 Jun 1792 in Nelson, , Kentucky, United States 1
  • Marriage (2): Thomas Wells Rathbone on 24 May 1819 in Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States 2 3
  • Died: 1 Apr 1843, Hodgenville, Larue, Kentucky, USA at age 76 2 6
  • Buried: Apr 1843, Hodgenville, Larue, Kentucky, USA

   Other names for Mary were Mary Enlow 6 7 and Mary Larue.5 6 8

  General Notes:

Mary Enlow, a 53 year old widow, and the midwife who later was present at the birth of Abraham Lincoln. (Volume 8, Number 1, Page 12, January 1988)

  Noted events in her life were:

• Occupation: Midwife, 12 Feb 1809, Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States. During the night of 12 February 1809 Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln delivered Mrs. Lincoln of a healthy baby boy who was named Abraham Lincoln (future President of the United States.) Volume 1, Number 4, Page 52, October 1981


Mary married Isom Enlow on 25 Jun 1792 in Nelson, , Kentucky, United States.1 (Isom Enlow was born in 1765 in Nelson, , Kentucky, United States and died on 10 Oct 1816 in , Hardin, Kentucky, United States 5.)


Mary next married Thomas Wells Rathbone, son of John Rathbone Jr. and Eunice Wells, on 24 May 1819 in Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States.2 3 (Thomas Wells Rathbone was born on 16 Oct 1779 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States,5 6 8 9 died about Jul 1826 in Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States 5 6 and was buried about Jul 1826 in Hodgenville, Hardin, Kentucky, United States.)


Sources


1 "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900," database, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 Aug 2011), Mary Brooks and Isom Enlow; Ancestry.com.

2 Frank H. Rathbun, Editor and Publisher, The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian (Name: Published quarterly by the Rathbun Family Association;), Volume 1, Number 4, Page 53, October 1981. Source Medium: Magazine

3 "Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850," database, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 Aug 2011), Thomas W. Rathbone and Mary Enlow; Ancestry.com.

4 "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900," database, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 Aug 2011), Mary Brooks; Ancestry.com.

5 Frank H. Rathbun, Editor and Publisher, The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian (Name: Published quarterly by the Rathbun Family Association;), Volume 1, Number 4, Page 51, October 1981. Source Medium: Magazine

6 Frank H. Rathbun, Editor and Publisher, The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian (Name: Published quarterly by the Rathbun Family Association;), Volume 8, Number 1, Page 12, January 1988. Source Medium: Magazine

7 "Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850," database, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 Aug 2011), Mary Enlow; Ancestry.com.

8 Frank H. Rathbun, Editor and Publisher, The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian (Name: Published quarterly by the Rathbun Family Association;), Volume 3, Number 3, Page 45, July 1983. Source Medium: Magazine

9 Connecticut Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), 3: 228, Thomas Wells Rathbone; digital image, "Stonington Vital Records, 1658-1854," Ancestry (www.ancestry.com: 7 Aug 2011).


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