The Illegitimate Daughter of Lucy Hanks

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln (née Hanks), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in southeast Hardin County, Kentucky,(now LaRue County).

Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia

                                         Nancy Hanks was born on February 5, 1784


Nancy Hanks was born the illegitimate daughter of Lucy Hanks in what was then part of Hampshire County, Virginia. Today it is Mineral County, West Virginia. Years later, her son Abraham reportedly told his law partner William Herndon that his maternal grandfather was "a well-bred Virginia farmer or planter."