“Jesse Head, D. N. E. C.
“(Copy attest.)
“W. F. Booker,
“Clerk, Washington County Court.
“Yours respectfully, W. F. B.”
The “Christian Advocate,” in publishing the letters, said:
“In summing up the whole the following points may be considered as forever settled:
“1. There was such a man as Jesse Head, a local deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1806.
“2. He married Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks on September 23, 1806,[[20]] of whom was born the venerated and never-to-be-forgotten Abraham Lincoln.
“3. The fact of the marriage was duly certified by Jesse Head, in the clerk’s office of Washington County, Kentucky, where it may now be seen.