Who married Nancy Lincoln?
Thomas Lincoln married Nancy Lincoln on . Nancy Hanks Lincoln was 22 years old on the wedding day (22 years, 4 months and 7 days). Thomas Lincoln was 28 years old on the wedding day (28 years, 5 months and 6 days). The age gap was 6 years, 0 months and 30 days.
The marriage ended in .
Nancy Lincoln
Nancy Hanks Lincoln (née Hanks; February 5, 1784 – October 5, 1818) was the mother of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Her marriage to Thomas Lincoln also produced daughter Sarah and son Thomas Jr. In 1816, when Nancy and Thomas had been married for just over 10 years, the family moved from Kentucky to western Perry County, Indiana; when Spencer County was formed in 1818, the Lincoln homestead lay within its current boundaries. 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.
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Thomas Lincoln
Thomas Lincoln Sr. (January 6, 1778 – January 17, 1851) was an American farmer and carpenter. His son Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Unlike some of his ancestors, Thomas could not write. He struggled to make a successful living for his family and faced difficult challenges in Kentucky real estate boundary and title disputes, the early death of his first wife, and the integration of his second wife's family into his own family, before making his final home in Illinois.
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