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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: August 18, 2011
Caption: Thomas Lincoln (1776 - 1851)
Additional Description: Born during Revolutionary days in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, he saw the end of the Revolution in Kentucky. A westward moving pioneer, he lived thirty-four years in Kentucky, fourteen in Indiana and twenty-one in Illinois.

When a mere child, he saw his father killed by an Indian. Growing up “a wandering laboring boy,” he became a man of modest substance living always upon his own land. He was skilled with carpenter's tools as well as with ax and rifle. His log cabin homes and their homes and their simple furnishings were made mostly by his own hands.

Devout Christian–representative citizen–he served well as militiaman, patrolman, jury man, road supervisor, church trustee–a typical American pioneer of his day.

Powerful physique, unflinching courage, tender heart, droll humor, temperate habits, sterling honesty–these were legacies of this worthy pioneer father to his illustrious son.
Submitted: August 26, 2011, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p169343
File Size: 0.502 Megabytes

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