Photo of her grave and headstone is located at: FindAGrave.com

The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln (books.google.com)

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More information at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Hanks_Lincoln

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When Thomas and Nancy Lincoln moved to Nolin Creek, Thomas and Elizabeth Sparrow lived near them. Elizabeth, who was like a mother to Nancy, after having her in the home for most of her life, was present at the birth of Abraham. The Sparrows also followed the Lincolns to Indiana and arrived in time to be stricken with the same sickness as Nancy Hanks Lincoln. They died within a few days of each other.

Nancy Hanks was tall and slender, dark complexion. She and her husband were members of the Little Mount Batpist Church in Kentucky. After the death of Nancy, Thomas Lincoln took his letter to the Little Pigeon Church which was formed in Indiana. Both the Lincolns and Hankses were Primitive Baptists. Everything known of Abraham Lincoln's mother indicates she was a "noble woman, worthy to have been, as she was, the mother of a truly great man." Source of information: The Lineage of Lincoln by Barton, 1929.

Thomas Lincoln, Augusta (now Rockingham) Co., Virginia 6 Jan. 1778-near Farmington, Ill. 17 Jan. 1851, Beech Creek, Washington Co., Ky. 12 June 1806

3. Nancy Hanks, Campbell Co., Va. 5 Feb. 1784 or Richmond Co., Va. 5 Feb. 1783 (according to Paul H. Verduin)-near Gentryville, Indiana 5 Oct. 1818

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Hampshire County, VA is now Mineral County, W. VA.

Nancy Hanks Lincoln was the mother of President Abraham Lincoln. While Lucy is known to have been her mother, the identity of her father hasn't been totally proven.

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The following is excerpted from the National Park Service retrieved October 31, 2007 from http://www.nps.gov/archive/liho/family/nancy.htm:

“Nancy Hanks Lincoln was born in Virginia in 1784. Her family later moved to Kentucky where, on June 12, 1806, she married Thomas Lincoln. She gave birth to three children: Sarah (February 10, 1807), Abraham (February 12, 1809), and Thomas (1812), who died in infancy.

“In 1816, the Lincoln family migrated to what is today Spencer County, Indiana. Two years later, on October 5, 1818, she died of ‘milk sickness,’ an illness contracted by drinking milk from a cow that had consumed the poisonous white snakeroot. She was buried in a hill-top, pioneer cemetery near the Lincoln farm.

“Lincoln probably knew little of her background, since she died when he was nine, and his father quickly remarried. In later years, he referred to her as his "Angel Mother," that is, his deceased mother.

“Sources: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, (1982) by Mark Neely and Lincoln's Youth (1959) by Louis A. Warren.”

The following is excerpted from Wikipedia retrieved October 31, 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Hanks:

Nancy Hanks Lincoln (January 20, 1784 - December 9, 1818) was the mother of Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Lincoln and wife of Thomas Lincoln.

Nancy Hanks' (January 26, 1784 - December 9, 1818), mother of President Abraham Lincoln and Sarah Lincoln, was born in Hampshire County, Virginia (now Mineral County, West Virginia.) She was born in a log cabin on the Doll farm near Mike's Run at the base of Knobly Mountain near Antioch, West Virginia. and baptized in the Broad Run Baptist Church there which still retains the baptismal record. She is thought to be born out of wedlock. Little is known about her early life, but she was admired as an excellent seamstress. On June 12, 1806, she married Thomas Lincoln.

On June 12, 1806, she married Thomas Lincoln. They had three children:

 Sarah Lincoln, born February 10, 1807 

 Abraham Lincoln, born February 12, 1809 

 Thomas Lincoln, born in 1812 who died in infancy 

In 1816 Nancy Hanks and her family moved to Southern Indiana. 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 Nancy Hanks Lincoln Cemetery, on the grounds of Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Lincoln City, Indiana.

The definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln's mother, ‘Nancy Hanks Lincoln: A Frontier Portrait’ by Harold and Ernestine Briggs, is now back in print.”

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American actor Tom Hanks is a direct descendant of her family line. [n.b.: this claim has not been confirmed.]

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Nancy was left an orphan at her parents death in 1793.She was adopted by her Aunt Lucy (Shipley) Berry, whose husband Richard Berry became her legal guardian, and at whose house in Beechland,Washington County, KY she married June 12, 1806,Thomas Lincoln. Her uncle,Richard Berry was the surety on the marriage bond.

The mother of Abraham Lincon, 2 Oct 1818.

"All that I am or hope to be owe to my angel mother. Blessings on her memory"

Thomas Lincoln of Kentucky married Nancy Hank for his first wife. Her family was from Virginia. She was a tall woman, above middle height, with black hair, little educated, but of marked character, and a mind naturally intelligent and vigorous. Her experience in the rude frontier life was hard. The glimpses we get of her in the biography of her great son are somber, and probably to her the President owed that underlying element of sad thoughtfulness in his nature, always so apparent, and so in contrast with the humorous surface traits that perhaps came from his father. Nancy Hanks, I have little doubt, was a descendant of that John who was in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1787. Her family name was English, but her black hair we may believe she had from the Welsh blood of her ancestress Sarah Evans, of Gwynedd.

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