Was President Lincoln Born Out-Of-Wedlock?

Was President Lincoln Born Out-Of-Wedlock?. . President Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, died never knowing for sure if his parents were legally married. In 1858, when Lincoln was running for President, the question of his parents' marriage became a political issue. Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln sent an agent to search records in Hardin County, KY , the place he remembered as a child , for evidence of marriage records to prove his legitimacy. No documents were found., The bronze sculpture depicts Lincoln looking toward the 1816 Washington County Courthouse where the marriage records were found in 1878, thirteen years after his assassination. The President died without knowing that his parents were married in Washington County on June 12, 1806., Just Below his feet, but out of his line of sight, is a bronze plaque imprinted with the Bond of Marriage between Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln. Two interlocking brick rings represent both the rings exchanged at the wedding and the uniting of the North and South during the Civil War. The map will lead you to the site of the Hanks/Lincoln wedding at Lincoln Homestead State Park in addition to other significant sites related to Lincoln's history in Washington County. The park is five miles north on Highway 528.