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Nancy Hanks (daughter of James Hanks and Lucinda Shipley (Lucy)) was born February 05, 1784 in Hatt Creek near Brookneal, Campbell County, Virginia and Amelia County, Virginia, and died October 05, 1818 in Little Pigeon Creek Community, Gentryville, Spencer County, Indiana.She married Thomas Lincoln on June 12, 1806 in Beech Fork, Near Elizabethtown, Washington Co. Kentucky, in home of guardian Richard Berry, Beech Fork, Washington County., son of Abraham Lincoln and Bersheba Herring.
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When Nancy's father James Hanks died during the Revolutionary War in Virginia, her mother Lucy Shipley Hanks took her and moved in with her husbands parents, Joseph and Ann Lee Hanks in Kentucky.When her mother remarried to Henry Sparrow, Nancy went to live with her mother's sister, Aunt and Uncle Richard and Rachel Shipley Berry.source; Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial Park, in Lincolin City, Spencer County, Indiana.
More About Nancy Hanks:
Date born 2: February 05, 1784
Burial: Unknown, Private Cemetery close to home, Gentryville, Spencer County, Indiana.
More About Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln:
Marriage: June 12, 1806, Beech Fork, Near Elizabethtown, Washington Co. Kentucky, in home of guardian Richard Berry, Beech Fork, Washington County..
Children of Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln are:
  1. +Sarah Lincoln, b. February 10, 1807, Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky, d. January 20, 1828, Little Pigeon Creek, Spencer County, Indiana age 21.
  2. +Abraham Lincoln, b. February 12, 1809, Nolin Creek, Sinking Spring Farm, then Hardin County, Kentucky three miles south of the present town of Hodgenville in Larue County., d. April 15, 1865, 7:22 AM, in a house belonging to W. Petersen, Washington D.C. USA.
  3. Thomas Lincoln, b. 1809, Knob Creek, then Hardin County, Kentucky, present-day Larue Cunty, Kentucky., d. 1811, Knob Creek, then Hardin County, Kentucky, present-day Larue County, Kentucky, age 2.