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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: August 18, 2011
Caption: An Important Wedding
Additional Description: The parents of our nation’s sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. In this cabin, on June 12, 1806, they were married by Reverend Jesse Head.

Thomas Lincoln, with his parents and four siblings, first came to Kentucky in 1782 and settled near Hughes Station, in Jefferson County. As the young man grew, he learned the skills of carpentry and cabinet making. He purchased his first farm in 1806 in Hardin County, paying over $500 in cash for the 238-acre farm.

Thomas met Nancy, a young woman living in the Beechland area with her aunt and uncle. Nancy had come with her mother along the Wilderness Road, through the Cumberland Gap, into Kentucky at an early age. Nancy and her mother went to live with her mother’s sister, Rachel (Shipley), and her husband Richard Berry, Sr., in Beechland, Kentucky after the death of her father. When Lucy later remarried, Nancy stayed with the Berrys. Nancy became quite skilled with needlework. Thomas began courting Nancy and soon they were planning for a wedding.
Submitted: August 26, 2011, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p169351
File Size: 0.297 Megabytes

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