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Unfortunately, there are no direct descendents of President Lincoln alive today. Robert Todd Lincoln, ; Library of Congress. Robert was born in ; just nine months after Abe and Mary were married. The next son, Edward, arrived in He was never a healthy child and just before his fourth birthday he died from most likely tuberculosis.

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Yet unfortunately, he also died too soon. Robert was the only child of Abe and Mary to live into adulthood. He married Mary Eunice Harlan in and they had three children together. He spent much of his career working for the Pullman Palace Car Company, eventually becoming its president and chairman of the board. Along with being an attorney, Robert was also a politician; he served as Secretary of War from to and as Ambassador to Great Britain from to He made his last public appearance at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in In Robert died at his home in Manchester, Vermont.

Mary and her husband Charles Bradford Isham had one child named Lincoln.

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Lincoln did marry, but never had any children of his own. He died from blood poisoning at the age of sixteen. Jack was said to have been much like his famous grandfather. The youngest child, Jessie, arrived in