Nancy Lincoln

Nancy Lincoln

Nancy Hanks Lincoln (February 5, 1784 – October 5, 1818) was the mother of Abraham Lincoln (the 16th President of the United States) and of Sarah Lincoln through her marriage to Thomas Lincoln. After more than ten years of marriage, the family moved from Kentucky to Spencer County, Indiana. When Abraham was nine years old, Nancy Lincoln died of milk sickness at the Little Pigeon Creek settlement. Elizabeth (Hanks) and Thomas Sparrow, her aunt and uncle, with whom Nancy had spent years as a child, also died there.