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Lincoln
From:
Mary Moyars-Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:09:34 -0500
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On Feb 24, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Basil Forest wrote:
> On the topic of Lincoln again, why is it more hasn't been written  
> about the
> genealogy of Lincoln and the apparent fact he was the illegitimate  
> son of
> Nancy  Hanks and Abraham Enroe of Haywood County, NC?  It seems as  
> though everyone...

The Hanks and Lincoln families had Virginia roots, but Nancy Hanks  
married Lincoln in Kentucky in June of 1806.
She gave birth to a daughter Sarah in 1807 and gave birth to Abraham  
in February 1809 in Kentucky.

Mary Moyars-Johnson  (MMJ)

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