Dwight D. Eisenhower
had black ancestry via his maternal side, Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower; it
was used politically against him by his opponents.
Ida Link’s mother —
Elizabeth Link (Eisenhower’s maternal grandmother) has no known family tree:
Why are her parents
listed as “unknown”?
She’s a genealogical
dead end. But no one is a genealogical dead end unless someone wants them to
be.
She was born in Mount
Sidney, Virginia,[1] the only daughter of Elizabeth Ida Juda Link and Simon P.
Stover.
Here’s the problem: In
Mount Sidney to this day there are both black families and white families with
the surname “Link”.. Many years ago, a black researcher discovered that Ida’s
mother was from the black Links a fact washed away in time by two things:
1. Her mother died when
she was five years old.
2. She went to live
with a white family after.
3. She moved to Kansas
while in her teens.
4. She married a white
man.
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