Virginia John Lincoln, great-grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln
"My father's name was Thomas, my grandfather's Abraham, the same as my own. My grandfather went from Rockingham county in Virginia, to Kentucky about the year 1782. And two years afterward was killed by the Indians. We have a vague tradition that my great-grandfather went from Pennsylvania to Virginia, and that he was a Quaker. Further than this I have never heard anything." The first Lincoln to emigrate to Virginia is called in the Lincoln genealogy "Virginia John." He was the great grandfather of the president, and the father of the Ohio John.
The Lincoln homestead was on Linville Creek, Virginia, just down the road from the Hoover family.
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