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Dr. John J. Dickey Diary Laurel County, KY
Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Vol 10, Number 7, January, 1996. p.86.
Robert Lincks or Lynx Laurel Co., June 28, 1898
My father was Frederick Lincks. He was born in Germany. Before he reached his majority he ran away from home and joined the army of Napoleon Bonaparte.
He was a wild boy. I have seen his body; it was all covered with scars. showing that he had many conflicts in his young days.
His father was a great friend of Napoleon and through this intimacy he got his son released. He then sent him to Amsterdam to school. After the close of the term, $80.00 was necessary to pay board and tuition.
His father sent him the money to pay the bill but he took the money and paid his passage to America. Eighty other students did the same.
The ship was anchored about a mile from shore. The boys were taken out in a schooner; several trips being necessary. The ship lost her course and many died of over-eating when a friendly ship found them. They lost many by sickness.
(His time with Napoleon was 7 or 9 months, the voyage, either 7 or 9).
When they landed in America the ship's Captain sold them for their passage denying they had paid him. James Garrard, Governor of Kentucky, bought him. He did not know he was sold for a year. He could not talk English. He learned somehow that he was a slave and he made his case known to a lawyer who could talk German. He looked into his trunk and found his free papers. He was about to leave the Governor, but he was hired for a year when Daniel Garrard brought him to Clay County to oversee Negroes at the salt works. He promised Governor to return but he never did.
He worked for the Garrards whom he greatly loved.
He married first Nancy Hays, had two children, Eliza Parker and Nancy Benge, Smily Davis' wife.
He then married Polly Cornett, daughter of old Robin Cornett of Benge. They had children: John Lynx, Susan Stivers, Margaret Parker, Lottie Lynx married Phil Wilson, Lucinda married Lee
Chestnut, Patsy married preacher Hiram Johnson, Zilpha married Charles Parsley, Robert Lynx married Eliza Chestnut, James married Jane Bailey.
Next he married Louisa Robison and had three children; Susan, Hiram, and Thomas.
Next he married Widow Black nee Patsy Young. To these were born, Frederick, Henry and Germany, the last a daughter. Henry married Molly Houston of Benge, where he died about 1890. He was 100 years old and had 113 descendants. They are very numerous now.
My father was soon lost from his countrymen who came over with bad fever (?), nor has he heard any from them. He never wrote back to his father nor did his father ever know anything about him.
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Another note in this diary states "Old Ned Callahan died at the home of his son-in-law Robin Cornett, where Hays Coldiron lives now, at Benge, KY. When he was an old man, and the deer had about disappeared, he would go out in the evening by Mill Creek and build a fire and sleep by it all night. When he was old, he always wore his hunting tackle, a pouch containing flints, a pipe, and tobacco. He would put it on when he dressed, just like his garments."
this information came from John McDaniel on 6/l3/l898.
Another note in the diary says "Robin Cornett and his uncle Roger Cornett married Charlotte and
Zilpah Callahan, sisters of the man who was hung at Barboursville for killling Newberry. They killed him for his money but only got 25 cents. Newberry was a cattle buyer. The murder was done at Red Bird, at Newberry Hill.
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Mountain Echo newspaper, London, KY
Friday 24 January 1879; Page 3, Column 2
Born to the wife of Old Uncle Frederick Lincks, of Clay County, one day last week, a boy. Mr. Lincks is an old gentleman about 83 years of age, and has, we believe, been married four times. The old gentleman seems to be prouder of this child than any of his children, and often in his joy he will sing:
"Oh how strange it seems for an old man like me
To be dancing a new born babe upon my knee"
It does almost seem like a mystery and we would like to know if any of our contemporaries know of any one whose progeny has extended over so many years.
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Semi-Weekly Interior Journal newspaper, Stanford, KY
Friday 18 February 1887; Page 2, Column 4
London, Laurel County (column)
-The "Judge" Lincks farm sold Monday to J. C. Jackson for $800.
-The farm on Rockcastle River known as the John Lincks place was sold at public outcry Monday for $1,600, bought by the Lincks heirs.
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Semi-Weekly Interior Journal newspaper, Stanford, KY
Tuesday 21 June 1887; Page 3, Column 3
London, Laurel County (column)
Mr. John Lincks and Miss Belle Young were married on Rockcastle River Sunday morning.
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IS this him?
Find A Grave Memorial# 7515209
Semi-Weekly Interior Journal newspaper, Stanford, KY
Tuesday 14 April 1891; Front Page, Column 2
London, Laurel County (column)
-Ed Lincks cut his brother-in-law, Thomas Webb in the neck Friday morning. They were living together and had been at outs for some time. Webb may die.
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Semi-Weekly Interior Journal newspaper, Stanford, KY
Friday 18 February 1918; Page 8, Column 3
London, Laurel County (column)
Fred Lincks, a Laurel County farmer, raised and killed a hog that weighed 750 pounds. He sold half of it - 376 pounds - to H. J. Johnson, for $75.20.
Added by: Gaye Hill 9/21/2014
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