Nancy Hanks Lincoln
(1784–1818)
BIRTH
February 5, 1784
PLACE
Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia)
NAME
Nancy Hanks
DEATH
October 5, 1818
PLACE
Little Pigeon Creek community, Indiana
FAMILY
MOTHER
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
HUSBAND
Thomas Lincoln
(1778–1851)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Nancy Hanks Lincoln was the mother of Abraham Lincoln. She married Thomas Lincoln in 1806 and raised their family in Kentucky and Indiana. She died during a milk-sickness outbreak in the Little Pigeon Creek community.
EARLY LIFE
Nancy was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, now in West Virginia. Her mother Lucy Hanks sent her to live with Elizabeth and Thomas Sparrow. She later worked as a seamstress in the Richard Berry household, where she came to know Thomas Lincoln.
Nancy’s documented work included sewing and the labor of the frontier farm household. The family moved from Kentucky to Indiana in 1816.
CAREER
DEATH
Nancy died of milk sickness on October 5, 1818, at Little Pigeon Creek. She is buried at Pioneer Cemetery within Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.
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