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Nancy Hanks Lincoln (February 5, 1784 – October 5, 1818) was the mother of Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Lincoln and wife of Thomas Lincoln.
y Hanks was born in Hampshire County, Virginia (now Mineral County, West Virginia). Abraham Lincoln credited many of his genetic gifts to his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln because of his belief that his gifts came from his unknown grandfather, who fathered her out of wedlock.
On June 12, 1806, she married Thomas Lincoln.
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Nancy Hanks Lincoln (February 5, 1784 – October 5, 1818) was the mother of Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Lincoln and wife of Thomas Lincoln.
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, Nancy Hanks Lincoln because of his belief that his gifts came from his unknown grandfather, who fathered her out of wedlock.
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 Washington County, Kentucky courthouse. They had three children:
- Sarah Lincoln, February 10, 1807 – January 20, 1828
- Abraham Lincoln, born February 12, 1809
- Thomas Lincoln, died in infancy
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.
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..
It has been speculated that Nancy Hanks may be of Melungeon descent.
External links
- Paul H. Verduin (1988),
- Sturgill, David Andrew,
- David S. Keiser (1970),
- Raymond Martin Bell and Christopher Challender Child (1997),
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