2022年1月24日 · Abraham Lincoln summed up his early years on the frontier in Kentucky and Indiana as "the short and simple annals of the poor." But the hardships he endured there as a youth weren’t unique....

1996年12月29日 · One of the older women, Peggy Walters, mentioned she was present when Abraham Lincoln was born. She told the following story of the birth: I was twenty years old, then, and helping to bring a baby into the world was more of an event to me than it became afterward.

Like many Americans of his era, Abraham Lincoln's early life was characterized by steep obstacles and scant resources. Years later his life story still fascinates: the steady, slow rise from a setting of poverty, deprivation, and discouragement to a place of high national esteem.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky.His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute forced the family to leave in 1811, they relocated to Knob Creek farm, eight miles to the north.By 1814, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, had …

2019年4月17日 · On Feb. 12, 1809, on a snowy Sunday morning, Abraham Lincoln, a future president, was born in a corner of the cabin on a bed of poles, cornhusks and bearskins. Mrs. Hanks, a neighbor, came to...

Abraham Lincoln came from a working family. His mother was Nancy Hanks and his father Thomas Lincoln. Abraham had an older sister, Sarah, and a brother, Thomas, who did not survive infancy. The family lived in Sinking Spring Farm for his first seven years. The Lincoln’s family cabin at Knob Creek. Source: National Park Service.

Abraham Lincoln’s father, Tom, was one of several children born to Revolutionary War Captain Abraham Lincoln (1744-1786) and Bathsheba Herring (1742-1836). Both were originally from Virginia. After the War, Tom’s father Abraham acquired a Kentucky farm and planned to establish his home there.

2024年9月8日 · Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 into a family of modest means in a log cabin in rural Hardin County, Kentucky. He was the second of three children born to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. He had an older sister, Sarah, and a younger brother, Thomas, who died in infancy. Nancy Hanks was described as fervently religious.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 near Hodgenville Kentucky, in a one room log cabin. It had a dirt floor and no glass windows. Lincoln was the second of three children born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln.

2022年2月18日 · Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky. About two years later, his family moved to the Knob Creek Farm just a few miles away.