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A
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I
have performed a second bit of forensic photo work to portray
Nancy Hanks as she may have looked in the early 1800s. I
think one can see a better potential of the likeness to
what may have been the way Nancy Hanks Lincoln appeared.
I have achieved this by taking facial characteristics from
the Lincoln family members and eliminating facial characteristics
that are not from Thomas Lincoln or Mary Todd. Added references
to photos of the family tree, specifically noting resemblences
to the offspring of Robert Lincoln, Jessie Harlan Lincoln
and Mary Beckwith Lincoln, are used to obtain the most recurring
facial structure.
John
Hanks, her cousin, described Lincoln's mother to Billy Herndon
in the autumn of 1865. "She was a tall slender woman.
dark skinned, black hair and eyes, her face was sharp and
angular forehead big."
The
most likely resemblance of Nancy Hanks results and is shown
here with an age adjusted photo of Thomas Lincoln to represent
how the young Lincoln parents may have looked.
(Below)
Here a colorized Sarah Bush Johnston's picture as an eldery
woman and also performed a bit of retouching to approximate
how she may have looked when raising the Lincoln children.
Seeing Thomas Lincoln - Abraham's father -in color - there
is little doubt of the paternity of Abraham Lincoln. The larger
sized ears, broad mouth and square jaw line areso obviously
from his father.
J.
Wilkes Boothe
all
photos © Copyright 2008-2009 Bryan Eaton all rights
reserved
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