HANKS, Nancy Elizabeth^{[1, 2]}

1784 - 1818  (34 years)

• Name	HANKS, Nancy Elizabeth
  Birth	5 Feb 1784	Antioch, Mineral County, West Virginia, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	5 Oct 1818	Gentryville, Spencer County, Indiana, USA   [1, 2]
  	Mother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. She was a Virginia native, moving to Kentucky, where she met and married Thomas Lincoln. She gave birth to three children. The Lincolns moved to Spencer County in southern Indiana in 1816 and constructed a cabin on Little Pigeon Creek. She soon took ill and struggled between life and death for a week. She passed away a mere two years after arriving in Indiana. Her husband Thomas constructed a coffin from pine cut from the property. He took the body via a sled to a nearby pioneer hilltop cemetery near the Lincoln farm. There was no religious cleric in the region, so with Thomas Lincoln, his children, and a few neighbors, Nancy Lincoln was interred without a formal religious service. The grave has endured to the present time. Other graves in the tiny cemetery, as well as that of Nancy's, were lost. Finally, a family friend erected a marker in an approximate location. Over the years, the site has been vandalized and allowed to become overgrown with trees and brush. Only when the fame of her son, President Lincoln, was established, was a concerted effort made to preserve the grave location. Life was hard in the wilderness, and a man with children could not remain without a wife for long. Thomas Lincoln quickly remarried. Abraham Lincoln was nine years old at the time of his mother's death. [2]
  Age	34 years
  Burial	7 Oct 1818	Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Spencer County, Indiana, USA   [1, 3]
  Person ID	P2159	Dutton Ancestry
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	HANKS, William           b. 1763, Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, USA           d. 1851, Bostic, Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA (Age 88 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	WRIGHT, Keziah           b. 29 Jan 1763, Little Mountain, Newberry County, South Carolina, USA           d. 6 Sep 1844, Fletcher, Miami County, Ohio, USA (Age 81 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Children	+ 1. HANKS, Nancy Elizabeth           b. 5 Feb 1784, Antioch, Mineral County, West Virginia, USA           d. 5 Oct 1818, Gentryville, Spencer County, Indiana, USA  (Age 34 years)
  Family ID	F5506	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	LINCOLN, Thomas Herring           b. 6 Jan 1778, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA           d. 17 Jan 1851, Goose Nest Prairie, Coles County, Illinois, USA (Age 73 years)  [1]
  Marriage	10 Jun 1806	Washington, Kentucky, USA   [1]
  Age at Marriage	She : 22 years and 4 months - He : 28 years and 5 months.
  Children	1. LINCOLN, Sarah           b. 10 Feb 1807, Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky, USA           d. 20 Jan 1828, Dale, Spencer County, Indiana, USA (Age 20 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth] 2. LINCOLN, President Abraham           b. 12 Feb 1809, Hodgenville, LaRue County, Kentucky, USA           d. 15 Apr 1865, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA (Age 56 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]   3. LINCOLN, Thomas "Tommy" Jr           b. 1812, LaRue County, Kentucky, USA           d. 1812, LaRue County, Kentucky, USA (Age 0 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
  Family ID	F5507	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 5 Feb 1784 - Antioch, Mineral County, West Virginia, USA Marriage - 10 Jun 1806 - Washington, Kentucky, USA Death - 5 Oct 1818 - Gentryville, Spencer County, Indiana, USA Burial - 7 Oct 1818 - Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Spencer County, Indiana, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S141] Familysearch.org. [S50] Findagrave.com. [S50] Findagrave.com. Maintained by: Find a Grave Added: 6 Feb 2000 Find a Grave Memorial #8381