Thomas Lincoln
Thomas Herring Lincoln (1778-1851)
Born	January 6, 1778 Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
Died	January 17, 1851 Coles County, Illinois, USA
Occupation	Pioneer, Farmer, Relative
Spouse	Nancy Hanks, Sarah Bush Lincoln
Parents	Abraham Lincoln Sr. and Bathsheba Herring
Children	Abraham Lincoln Sarah Lincoln Grigsby Thomas Lincoln

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Birth

He was the fifth child of Abraham Lincoln Sr. (1744-1786) of Amity, Pennsylvania and Bathsheba Herring. The other siblings were: Abraham Lincoln (March 18, 1744 – May 4, 1786) was an farmer and the grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln, Sarah Lincoln, daughter of Nancy Hanks, son-in-law of Thomas Lincoln and a Captain in the American Revolution. ... // Events The third French and Indian War, known as King Georges War, breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia The First Saudi State founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud Prague occupied by Prussian armies Ongoing events War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) Births January 10 - Thomas Mifflin, fifth President... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Amity Township is a township located in Berks County, Pennsylvania. ... Official language(s) English, Pennsylvania Dutch Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

• Mordecai Lincoln (1771-?)
• Mary Lincoln (c.1773-?) who was born in Rockingham County, Virginia
• Josiah Lincoln (1776-?) who was born on July 10, 1776 in Virginia
• Nancy Lincoln (1780-?) or Ann Lincoln who was born on March 25, 1780 in Linville Creek, Virginia.

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Early life

Thomas Lincoln was born in Rockingham County, Virginia. He moved to the state of Kentucky in the 1780s with his family. In May, 1786, Thomas witnessed the murder of his father by Indians "…when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest." That fall, his mother moved the family to Washington County, Kentucky (near Springfield), where Thomas lived until the age of eighteen. From 1795 to 1802, Thomas held a variety of jobs in several locations. These jobs increased his earning power and helped to feed the Lincoln family. Location in the state of Virginia Formed 1778 Seat Harrisonburg Area  - Total  - Water 2,210 km² (853 mi²) 6 km² (2 mi²) 0. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... Nothing much really happened in the 1780s only that Mary-Anne Tobin was hung in public for wearing a flase beard and voting. ... May is the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Washington County is a county located in the state of Kentucky. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... Springfield is a city located in Washington County, Kentucky. ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... --69. ...

Marriage and family

In 1802 he moved to Hardin County, Kentucky, where one year later, he purchased a 238-acre farm. Four years later, on June 12, 1806, he married Nancy Hanks. Their first child, a daughter named Sarah Lincoln, was born a year later. In 1808, Thomas bought a 300-acre farm in Nolin Creek, Kentucky. There on February 12, 1809, his son Abraham was born. A third child, Thomas, Jr., died in infancy. --69. ... Hardin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... An acre is the name of a unit of area in a number of different systems, including Imperial units and United States customary units. ... June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... For the passenger train, see Nancy Hanks (passenger train). ... Sarah Lincoln (born February 10, 1807, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky- died January 20, 1828) was the eldest child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks and the only sister of Abraham Lincoln. ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Year 1809 (MDCCCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician elected from Illinois as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ...

Thomas was active in community and church affairs in Hardin County. He served as a jury member, a petitioner for a road, and as a guard for county prisoners. He could read a little, was a skilled carpenter, and was a property owner. However, like dozens of others, Thomas fell victim to land laws widely described as chaotic. On three separate occasions, defective titles caused him to lose his farm. Discouraged by these setbacks, he decided to move his family to Indiana where the land ordinance of 1785 ensured that land once purchased and paid for was retained. Abraham Lincoln claimed many years later that his father’s move from Kentucky to Indiana was "partly on account of slavery, but chiefly on account of the difficulty of land titles in Kentucky." A community usually refers to a sociological group in a large place or collections of plant or animal organisms sharing an environment. ... St. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The plaintiff, claimant, or complainant is the party initiating a lawsuit, (also known as an action). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A Guard may be a person or an organisation. ... World literacy rates by country The traditional definition of literacy is considered to be the ability to read and write, or the ability to use language–to read, write, listen, and speak. ... Carpenters in an Indian village. ... ... Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area  Ranked 38th  - Total 36,418 sq mi (94,321 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 270 miles (435 km)  - % water 1. ... 1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area  Ranked 38th  - Total 36,418 sq mi (94,321 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 270 miles (435 km)  - % water 1. ...

In December, 1816, the Lincolns settled near Little Pigeon Creek where Thomas and Abraham set to work carving a home from the Indiana wilderness. Father and son worked side by side to clear the land, plant the crops and build a home. Thomas also found that his skills as a carpenter were in demand as the community grew. This does not cite its references or sources. ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

In October, 1818, Nancy Hanks Lincoln contracted the dreaded milk sickness by drinking poisoned milk of a cow that had eaten the White Snakeroot plant. There was no cure for the disease and on October 5, 1818, Nancy died. For over a year, Thomas and his children lived alone, until December 2, 1819, when he married Sarah Bush, a widow from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Sarah and her three children – Elizabeth, Matilda, and John – joined Abraham, Sarah and Dennis Hanks (a cousin of Nancy’s who had lived with the Sparrows until their death from the same outbreak of milk sickness that had killed Nancy) to make a new family of eight. Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... Milk sickness also known as tremetol poisoning or in animals as trembles is characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain that affects individuals who eat dairy products or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot. ... A glass of cows milk A goat kid feeding on its mothers milk Milk is the nutrient fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals (including monotremes). ... COW is an acronym for a number of things: Can of worms The COW programming language, an esoteric programming language. ... [[{{{diversity_link}}}|Diversity]] {{{diversity}}} Binomial name Ageratina altissima (L.) King & H.E. Robins. ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (279th in Leap years). ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln (1788-1869) was the second wife of Thomas Lincoln and stepmother of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. ... Elizabethtown is a city in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States. ...

In addition to working as a carpenter, managing a farm, and looking after his family, Thomas also assisted in building the Little Pigeon Baptist Church, where he was a member and served as church trustee. By 1827, he had earned enough money to pay his debt on 100 acres of land. Naval Battle of Navarino by Carneray 1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Despite his success in Indiana, Thomas decided to move his family to Illinois in 1830. John Johnston, his stepson, who was by then an adult, moved there and sent glowing reports of the fertile ground that was available. In addition, because it was prairie, there was no need for the backbreaking work of clearing the land. Thomas sold his Indiana land and moved first to Macon County, Illinois and eventually to Coles County in 1821. The homestead site on Goosenest Prairie, about 10 miles south of Charleston, Illinois, is preserved as the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, although his original saddlebag log cabin was lost after being disassembled and shipped to Chicago for display at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. His son Abraham left to start his own homestead at New Salem, Illinois during the family’s move to Coles County. Thomas Lincoln remained a resident of the county for the rest of his life and is buried at nearby Shiloh Cemetery. [1] Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Prairie refers to an area of land of low topographic relief that historically supported grasses and herbs, with few trees, and having generally a mesic (moderate or temperate) climate. ... Macon County is a county located in the state of Illinois. ... Coles County is a county located in the state of Illinois. ... The coronation banquet for George IV 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Charleston is the county seat of Coles County, IllinoisGR6. ... The original Lincoln cabin (left) and the reconstruction at the site today. ... For the political organization that supports the United States Republican Party, see Log Cabin Republican Replica log cabin at Valley Forge, USA A log cabin is a small house built from logs. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837  - Mayor... One-third scale replica of Daniel Chester Frenchs Republic, which stood in the great basin at the exposition, Chicago, 2004 The Worlds Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago Worlds Fair), a Worlds Fair, was held in Chicago in 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher... New Salem is the name of a former village in Menard County, Illinois in the United States. ...

Lincoln had an uneasy relationship with his son that became increasingly distant as they grew older. He was not "a harsh father or a brutal disciplinarian," and encouraged his son's reading and education. However, Thomas sometimes struck Abraham if he thought he was neglecting his work by doing too much reading, or if he inserted himself into adult conversations.^[1] Abraham, who had little knowledge of his father's early struggles, looked down upon him and thought he was lazy and unambitious. The younger Lincoln credited any gifts he had to his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln -- less for her personal qualities than for his belief that his gifts came from his unknown grandfather, who fathered her out of wedlock.^[2] Although Abraham rushed to see his father during an illness in 1849, he did not see him on his deathbed the next winter, blaming work and Mary Todd's Lincoln's recent childbirth (although neither was a very serious obstacle). "Say to him," he wrote his stepbrother John D. Johnston (to whom Thomas Lincoln was much closer) "that if we could meet now, it is doubtful whether it would not be more painful than pleasant; but that if it be his lot to go now, he will soon have a joyous meeting with many loved ones gone before; and where the rest of us, through the help of God, hope ere-long to join them."^[3] Abraham did not attend his father's funeral. "He was not heartless," historian David Herbert Donald wrote, "but Thomas Lincoln represented a world that his son had long ago left behind him."^[4] For the passenger train, see Nancy Hanks (passenger train). ... Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was the First Lady of the United States when her husband, Abraham Lincoln, served as the sixteenth President, from 1861 until 1865. ... David Herbert Donald (b. ...

Throughout all of Abraham Lincoln's writings, and the recollections of his speech, "he had not one favorable word to say about his father."^[5] However, he named his fourth son Thomas, which "suggested that Abraham Lincoln's memories of his father were not all unpleasant and perhaps hinted at guilt for not having attended his funeral."^[6]

Notes

1. ^ Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York; Touchstone, 1995, 32.
2. ^ Donald, 23
3. ^ Donald, 153
4. ^ Donald, 153
5. ^ Donald, 33
6. ^ Donald, 154

Sources

• This article incorporates text from [2], a work of the National Park Service and as such in the public domain.
• Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York; Touchstone, 1995

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External links

• Abraham Lincoln's parents
• Thomas Lincoln's restored home at the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site