Wilson, Douglas L., ed; Davis, Rodney O., ed. 'Register of Informants' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: history]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
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Friend was supposedly the grandson of Dennis Hanks's father and the postmaster at Sonora, Kentucky. (Daniel E. McClure, Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky [Elizabethtown, 1979]; James Allison Jones and Mary Josephine Jones, comps., Cemetery Inscriptions, Hardin County, Kentucky [Owensboro, Ky., 1987])