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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: August 18, 2011
Caption: The Lincoln Marriage Cabin
Additional Description: In this historic cabin
Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks
Were married June 12, 1806 by the
Reverend Jesse Head.
The marriage bond signed by Thomas Lincoln and Richard Berry and witnessed by John H. Parrott dated June 10, 1806 and the minister's return of marriage are lodged in the records of the Washington County Court at Springfield, Kentucky.

The Reverend Jesse Head who performed the marriage ceremony lived in Harrodsburg and is buried here. He was a regular ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

This cabin was the first home of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. It was known in pioneer days as the Richard Berry Cabin and was located at Beechland, Washington County, Kentucky. Richard Berry was the uncle and guardian of Nancy Hanks.

The cabin was presented in 1911 by its owners William A. Clements of Springfield, Kentucky and Walter L. Clements of South Bend, Indiana, to the Harrodsburg Historical Society. The title is now vested in perpetuity in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Placed June 12, 1931
Submitted: August 26, 2011, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p169346
File Size: 0.380 Megabytes

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