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******HERNDON'S INFORMANTS: THE TEXTS******
1. Letters, Interviews, and Statements Collected by William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, 1865¨92
2. Informant Testimony Reported in Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)
3. Informant Testimony Reported in William H. Herndon's Letters to Jesse W. Weik
4. Informant Testimony Reported in Jesse W. Weik's The Real Lincoln (1922)
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Appendix: Brief Outline of the Joseph Hanks Family, by Paul H. Verduin
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798 index Grigsby, Reuben, Jr.: marriage of, 119¬20, 140, 168, 262, 645 Grigsby, Reuben, Sr.: subject of ¿Chronicles of Reuben,î 119¬20; ¿Chronicles of Reubenî named for, 598 Grigsby, Sarah Lincoln (AL's sister), 780; schooling, 28; cared for family after moth-er's death, 40; marriage, 41¬42, 70, 94, 645, 751; death of, 42, 70, 94, 100¬101, 645; description, 113, 121¬22, 126, 456, 615; mentioned, 503, 558 Grigsby, William: ‚ght with Johnston, 113¬ 14, 120¬21, 130, 140, 334, 345, 598, 645 Grimes, James W.: biographical sketch of, 751; letters from, 376¬78; critiqued AL's debate performance, 378 Grimes, Squire, 597 Grimshaw, Jackson: biographical sketch of, 751; letter from, 247¬48 Grimshaw, William: History of the United States, 109n Grow, Galusha, 206 Gurley, Rev. P. D., 497 Guthrie, James, 475 Hack, [?]: member of National Volunteers, 304 Hackley, Malvida, 613 ¿Hail, Columbiaî (Hopkinson), 146 Hall, James: biographical sketch of, 751¬52; whereabouts and later career of Offutt, 580¬81; Lamon's treatment of Baltimore plot, 581 Hall, John J., 782; biographical sketch of, 752; interview with, 693; letter from, 138; AL's stepmother lived with, 503; son of AL's stepsister Matilda Johnston Hall Moore, 693; AL kind to his stepmother, 693; men‚tioned, 225, 227, 244 Hall, Levi, 781¬82; buried near AL's mother, 455; move to Illinois, 456; question about wife of, 675; mentioned, 117n, 221, 228n, 231 Hall, Matilda Johnston. See Moore, Matilda Johnston Hall Hall, Nancy Hanks (AL's mother's aunt; Den‚nis Hanks's mother), 781¬82; buried next to AL's mother, 455; had Dennis Hanks by Charles Friend, 672, 673n, 674; thought to be AL's mother, 674; mentioned, 117n, 221, 228n, 231, 242 Hall, Rachel, 372n Hall, Squire, 782; moved to Illinois, 100, 103, 244; married AL's stepsister, 138; men‚tioned, 119, 376n, 752, 764 Hall, Sylvia, 372n Halleck, Fitz-Greene: AL read poetry of, 519; ¿Burns,î 519n Halleck, Henry W., 208, 685 Halpin, Frederick, 496, 522 Halsted, Oliver S. (¿Petî), 514 Hamilton, Mr., 315, 427 Hamlin, Hannibal, 114, 280, 308, 309, 552 Hammond, Abram: stage ride with AL, 641; Indiana governor, 641 Hanchett, Luther, 207 Hankins, Matilda: marriage to Charles Grigs‚ by, 645 Hanks, [?]: took up with Nancy Hornback Linkhorn, 614 Hanks, Byron M., 586, 586n Hanks, Charles, 175 Hanks, Dennis, 781; biographical sketch of, 752; interviews with, 27¬29, 35¬43, 103¬ 6, 598, 653¬54, 726; letters from, 45, 144, 146¬47, 149, 153¬54, 176, 192, 198¬99, 220¬22, 225¬33, 235¬36, 241¬42, 244¬ 45, 251¬52, 337, 351; claimed to have taught AL, 37, 101; at AL's birth, 38; birth and youth of, 38, 241¬42; married AL's stepsister, 40¬41; as source on AL, 57¬58, 103, 121; moved to Illinois, 100, 103, 244, 456, 532; AL once a Democrat, 103, 229; truthfulness of, 122, 651; AL's mother's burial, 154; pioneer farming in Indiana, 154, 176; on John D. Johnston, 176; and Charleston post of‚ce, 177; surname of AL's mother, 198n, 199, 220; AL's paternity, 199, 220; paternity of, 219, 221, 674; re‚ported failing in body and mind, 532; de‚scription of AL's mother, 598; AL's disposi‚tion and mental qualities from mother, 598; AL inherited storytelling and memory from father, 598; illegitimacy of, 651, 674; AL's mother and grandmother, 653; trip to Washington on behalf of Charleston rioters, 653¬54; recalled AL as infant, 726; men‚tioned, xv, 136, 454, 512, 672¬73, 673n, 743 Hanks, Elizabeth (Betsey). See Sparrow, Eliza‚beth (Betsey) Hanks Hanks, Elizabeth Johnston (AL's stepsister), 781; married Dennis Hanks, 40¬41, 100n, 145, 226; mentioned, 244