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While living at Little Pigeon Creek Settlement, Nancy Hanks Lincoln died on October 5, 1818, age 34. Her nine-year-old son Abraham assisted his father in the making of her coffin by whittling the wooden pegs that held the planks together.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln was the mother of Abraham Lincoln. She died when she was 35 of milk sickness on October 5, 1818. Abraham Lincoln was just 9 years old when his mother died. Nancy Lincoln was buried next to their closest neighbor, Nancy Rusher Brooner.
Hanks, Nancy (1783–1818) American mother of Abraham Lincoln. Born in 1783; died in 1818; became first wife of Thomas Lincoln (a carpenter), June 12, 1806; children: Sarah Lincoln (d. 1828); Abraham Lincoln (b. February 12, 1809); a third child, a son, died in infancy.
She was only thirty-four years old. The untimely death of Nancy Hanks Lincoln had a profound effect on her son throughout his childhood and adult life but despite this tragedy, Abraham Lincoln never forgot what she had meant to him and upon becoming President in 1860 he proudly acknowledged his late mother by crediting her with being solely ...
Hampshire County, VA. Date of Birth: February 5, 1784. Place of Death: Little Pigeon community. Date of Death: October 5, 1818. Place of Burial: Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, Indiana. Cemetery Name: Pioneer Cemetery.
May 9, 2014 · Nancy Hanks Lincoln, who gave birth to the Great Emancipator on February 12, 1809, had instilled the virtues of honesty and compassion in her son and sowed the seeds of his intellectual curiosity ...
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Nancy Lincoln died from milk sickness or consumption in 1818 at the Little Pigeon Creek Community in Spencer County when Abraham was nine years old. Nancy Hanks Lincoln was the mother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
