Family Trees - Warren Lincoln 1819

Warren Lincoln

Birth:		21-Sep-1819, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Death:		08-Feb-1872, Belmont, Portage County, Wisconsin
Marriage:		14-Nov-1844 to Izetta Stephenson

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With wife Izetta Stephenson:

Notes

Warren Lincoln and his sister, Martha Jane Lincoln, were born in New Brunswick, Canada. Warren eventually settled in Hodgdon, Maine around 1843. He shortly thereafter married Izetta Stephenson in Houlton, Maine when he was 25 (she was 17). Their first three children were born in Hodgdon, Maine. They then moved to Wisconsin sometime between 1853 - 1855 (their fourth child, George, was born in Montrose, Wisconsin, a town about 15 miles southwest of Madison). From the family notes of Allan Lincoln (grandson of Warren), three families left together from Maine and went to Wisconson: the families of Sutherland, Smith, and Lincoln. All the rest of their children were born in Belmont (Portage County), so they must have moved north from the Madison area to Belmont sometime beween 1855 and 1857. Warren died in Belmont in 1872 at the age of 52 (cause unknown). Izetta was 44 at the time of Warren's death, and their last child was just 4 months old. Both Warren and Izetta are buried in the First Belmont Cemetery.

Warren's wife, Izetta Stephenson, was born 05-May-1827 in Oromocto, New Brunswick, a town just southeast of Fredericton where Warren was born (see maps below). Izetta bore children from the time she was 20 until she was 44. She died 13-Sep-1904 at the age of 77. An obituary of Izetta is shown on the right. Years after Warren died, Izetta married a man named Peter Turner on 01-Jul-1882 (see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wispags/resources/mar-bride-i-l.html). Izetta remained married to Peter Turner until his death in 1895 (she was around 68 at the time).

The following quote is from "History of Aroostook", by Edward Wiggin, p. 27,

Mr. Warren Lincoln came to Hodgdon about 1843, and took the lot next east of Benj. T. Lincoln. He made a clearing upon this lot, and afterward sold it to Mr. Thomas Butler, and removed to a farm in the south part of the town on the Calais road. He lived upon this farm until 1854, when his buildings were burned and he sold the farm and removed to Wisconsin.

The following account is from "History and Memories - Portage County, Belmont Township", by Wayne Allen Guyant, Volume 1, page 14, and is a description of a settler to Belmont, Wisconsin named James Sutherland, but the account includes information about Warren Lincoln. James Sutherland married Hannah Stephenson, the sister of Warren's wife, Izetta Stephenson.

He [James Sutherland] stayed in the Australia gold fields nearly two years: When he came back, he came by London for a short stay. He wanted his family to return to Australia with him, but his wife didn't want to leave her folks. Instead they decided to go to Wisconsin.

Leaving Fredericton, they sailed to Saint John, then on another boat to Portland, Maine. From there they traveled by train to Boston, where they visited Mrs. Sutherland's relatives.

Leaving Boston, they journeyed on to Chicago and on to Madison, Wisconsin, going to the home of Warren Lincoln who lived near Madison at the time. Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Sutherland were sisters, and they stayed there for two months.

James Sutherland had bought 160 acres in the Town of Belmont, and while Mrs. Sutherland and the children were staying with the Lincolns, Mr. Sutherland and Mr. Lincoln came north to the Town of Belmont to see about a place for the family to live in.

The Warren Lincoln family decided to move with them to the Indian Lands. At Madison, James Sutherland bought a span of horses, some furniture and a cook stove. Then with the two teams the two families headed for new frontiers farther north.

What the Sutherland family expected to find when they arrived at their new home was a comfortable log house, but it seems as if Mr. Sutherland neglected to tell them that it was only a small board shanty.

The Lincoln family stayed with the Sutherlands in this small shanty while building their new home on the land that they had bought nearby. The shanty was so small that they had to set the chairs and the table outdoors to make room for the beds on the floor, but it was not long before James Sutherland had enough lumber to build a comfortable, small frame house and barn and dug a well. This farm later belonged to Alfred Jarnick.

Hannah Orcutt Stephenson Sutherland, Wife of James Sutherland, was born on November 9, 1819, in Oromocto, New Brunswick, Canada. Her people came from Boston. She had two brothers, Reuben and William, and two sisters, Izetta and Sarah, who married two Lincoln brothers.

Izetta married Warren Lincoln, and Sarah married John Lincoln. It so happened that Hannah and James Sutherland, also were all married on the same day, January 5, 1837.

The US Federal Census from 1850, 1860, and 1870 are shown on the right, and provide additional documentation for the members of the Warren Lincoln family. Of note is that for 1860, Warren's mother, Martha Thompson Lincoln, is living with the family (her husband, John Lincoln, died two years earlier). A probate record from Warren's death is also shown, listing several of his children. Also shown are some family documents from George Lincoln, son of Warren and Izetta, listing names and dates of birth, marriage, and death of several members of the Lincoln family.

Documentation is from:

History of Aroostook, Edward Wiggin, 1922, Vol. I, page 27.
History and Memories - Portage County, Belmont Township, Wayne Allen Guyant, 1984, Vol. I, pages 14 - 16.
Stevens Point Daily Journal, 22-Sep-1904.
Stevens Point Area Genealogical Society.
United States Federal Census.
Family documents from George Lincoln, son of Warren and Izetta Lincoln.