Person:William Winter (39)

Advisory

Some researchers and published works [including Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, Virginia] claim that William Winter had a daughter, Elizabeth Winter that married Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln. This appears to be "family tradition" and is not supported by records. In fact, the Bellefonte, PA Public Library has entries from the family bible of John Winter. There is no mention of Elizabeth Winter as the daughter of William Winter and his first wife Ann Boone Winter who died in 1771. There is an entry that says Susannah Winter married Hananiah Lincoln.

1.   Meginness, John F. (John Franklin). History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania: including its aboriginal history; the colonial and revolutionary periods; early settlement and subsequent growth; organization and civil administration; the legal and medical professions; internal improvements; past and present history of Williamsport; manufacturing and lumber interest; religious, educational, and social development; geology and agriculture; military record; sketches of boroughs, townships, and villages; portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens. (Chicago [Illinois]: Brown, Runk & Co., 1892)
   pg. 57.

   William Winter was a brother-in-law of Hawkins Boone, his first wife being Ann Boone, whom he married in 1747 in the Province of Virginia. She died here in 1771, having eleven children, four sons and seven daughters.