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Nancy Hanks Lincoln, A Frontier Portrait is the definitive biography about the life and times of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of beloved former President Abraham Lincoln. First published in 1952 and written by notable historians Harold B. Briggs and Ernestine Bennett Briggs , it is based on over ten years of diligent research into the background of Nancy Hanks Lincoln and her extended family.
She died when she was 35 of milk sickness on October 5, 1818. Abraham Lincoln was just 9 years old when his mother died. Nancy Lincoln was buried next to their closest neighbor, Nancy Rusher Brooner. Nancy Brooner had also become ill and died from milk sickness. Nancy Lincoln, took care of Nancy Brooner, but Nancy Brooner died two weeks before ...
The death of Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, had a lifelong impact on her son. This resource is part of the KET Lincoln: "I, Too, Am a Kentuckian." collection.
In the fall of 1816, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln packed their belongings and their two children, Sarah, 9, and Abraham, 7, and left their Kentucky home bound for the new frontier of southern Indiana. Arriving at his 160-acre claim near the Little Pigeon Creek in December, Thomas quickly set about building a cabin for his family and carving a new life out of the largely unsettled wilderness.
10 de abr. de 2015 · 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.
3 de nov. de 2015 · Historians have debated for more than a century about Lincoln's lineage, with many siding with Lincoln biographer William Barton, who concluded in the 1920s that Nancy Hanks Lincoln was the ...
9 de mai. de 2014 · Nancy Hanks Lincoln, who gave birth to the Great Emancipator on February 12, 1809, had instilled the virtues of honesty and compassion in her son and sowed the seeds of his intellectual curiosity.
