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Nancy Lincoln
Nancy Lincoln
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, oil painting by Loyd Ostendorf displayed at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial For the passenger train, see Nancy Hanks (passenger train). For the National Endowment for the Arts chairman, see Nancy Hanks (NEA). Nancy Hanks Lincoln (February 5, 1784 – October 5, 1818) was the mother of Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Lincoln and wife of Thomas Lincoln.
Memorial to Nancy Hanks in Mineral County, West Virginia at the site of her birth Washington County, Kentucky courthouse. They had three children: • Sarah Lincoln Grigsby, February 10, 1807 – January 20, 1828 • Abraham Lincoln, born February 12, 1809 • Thomas Lincoln, died in infancy, 1812
Life
Nancy Hanks was born in Hampshire County, Virginia (now Mineral County, West Virginia). Abraham Lincoln credited many of his genetic gifts to his mother, because of his belief that his gifts came from his unknown grandfather, who fathered her out of wedlock.[1] On June 12, 1806, she married Thomas Lincoln. Thomas proposed to her at what is now Lincoln Homestead State Park. A record of their marriage license is located at the
Memorial cabin at the Nancy Hanks Farm in Mineral County, West Virginia
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According to the minutes of a church in Fauquier County, Virginia published in The Genealogical Record by the Houston Genealogical Forum in Houston, Texas (Volume VII, Number 3, Sept., 1965). Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, was baptized there. On page 13 of the Minutes of the Broad Run Baptist Church, it states that Nancy Hanks was baptized on June 13, 1778. On page 14, it states her husband Luke Hanks was baptized on August 25, 1779. Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln was born in Campbell County, Virginia in 1784, six years after the Nancy Hanks mentioned in the minutes of the Broad Run Baptist Church. The Nancy listed there was probably the wife of Luke Hanks I. In 1816 Nancy Hanks and her family moved to Southern Indiana.
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Notes
[1] Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York; Touchstone, 1995, 23 [2] Fenster, Bob. They Did What!? The Funny, Weird, Wonderful, and Stupid Things Famous People Have Done, Andrews Publishing, 2002. Page 55. [3] Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan (1997). The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People : an Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America. Mercer University Press. pp. 28-30. ISBN 0865545162.
External links
• Abraham Lincoln’s Parents • The Maternal Lineage of Abraham Lincoln • Paul H. Verduin (1988), "New Evidence Suggests Lincoln’s Mother Born in Richmond County, Virginia, Giving Credibility to Planter-Grandfather Legend" • Sturgill, David Andrew, "Who Was Nancy Hanks Lincoln?" • David S. Keiser (1970), "How I Found Nancy Hanks’ Father, Thomas Hanks, Without Trying" • Raymond Martin Bell and Christopher Challender Child (1997), "Mother of the President: Nancy Hanks Lincoln, 1784-1818" Persondata NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH 1784 Hampshire County, Virginia 1818 Lincoln, Nancy Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Death
On October 5, 1818, Nancy Hanks Lincoln died of "milk sickness", a disease contracted from drinking the milk of a cow that has eaten the poisonous white snakeroot. In the same year, several other people also died of "milk sickness" in the small town of Little Pigeon Creek in Spencer County, Indiana, where the Lincolns lived. Nancy Hanks Lincoln was only thirty-four years old when she died, and her son Abraham was only nine. Nancy Hanks Lincoln’s grave is located in the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Cemetery, on the grounds of Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Lincoln City, Indiana.
Trivia
Katherine K. Davis wrote the ballad "Nancy Hanks" in 1941 as a tribute to Lincoln’s mother. She was known as the composer of the popular Christmas song "The Little Drummer Boy". Actor Tom Hanks is a distant relative of Nancy Hanks.[2]. It has been speculated that Nancy Hanks may be of Melungeon descent.[3]
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