[3] Jessie's sister and brother were, respectively: Lincoln spent part of her childhood in Washington, D.C., when her father was Secretary of War from 1881 to 1885.

[2] Jessie's brother, Abraham Lincoln II, died on March 5, 1890, in London at the age of 16, and three years later, the family returned to America, ultimately to Mary Eunice Harlan's mother's residence in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

In 1920, he deposited another 1,250 shares of Commonwealth Edison stock worth than $100,000 (equivalent to $1,521,000 in 2023) into Jessie's trust fund.

Pleasant Football Team and Jessie's father, Robert, strongly and bitterly opposed the couple's being together.

[5] In Des Moines County, Iowa in 1898, she gave birth to her first child, Mary Lincoln Beckwith (1898–1975).

She continued to live in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and on July 19, 1904, had her second and last child, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1904–1985), named after her father.