Individual Details

Thomas was born in Rockingham Co, but in the early 1780's the family moved to Jefferson Co, KY where his father was killed in an Indian attack in Mary of 1786.

1795 - Thomas Lincoln was on the Washington Co KY tax list, age 16-21. In 1797 he spent a year working for his uncle Issac Lincoln on the Watauga River in Tennessee.

Thomas moved to Hardin Co KY in 1802 - he purchased a 238 acres farm the next year.

Thomas was both a farmer and a carpenter. He served as a jury member, a petitioner for a road, and a guard for county prisoners.

Thomas and Nancy were members of the Little Mount Separate Baptist Church.

In 1816 the family moved to southern Indiana and settled on Little Pigeon Creek. When Nancy died in 1818, Thomas made her coffin of green pine and hauled it on a sled to the top of a hill and buried Nancy. Abraham recalled helping to carve the pegs for the coffin. It was several months before her funeral sermon was preached at her grave.

Thomas went back to Kentucky and married an old acquaintance - Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow with three children. In 1827, they moved to Macon County, Illinois; in 1841 to Coles County.

Abraham was not close to his father and did not attend the funeral when his father died. Thomas and Sarah are buried Shiloh Cemetery, between Charleston & Lema, Coles Co, IL.

Birth	6 Jan 1778	Rockingham County, Virginia
Marriage	12 Jun 1806	Hardin County, Kentucky - Nancy Hanks
Marriage	2 Dec 1819	Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky - Sarah Bush
Death	17 Jan 1851	Illinois

Spouse	Nancy Hanks (1784 - 1818)
Child	Sarah Lincoln (1807 - 1828)
Child	President Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Child	Thomas Lincoln (1814 - 1814)

Spouse

Sarah Bush (1788 - 1869)

Father	Abraham Lincoln (1744 - 1786)
Mother	Bathsheba ?Herring (1746 - 1836)
Sibling	Mordecai Lincoln (1771 - )
Sibling	Josiah Lincoln (1773 - )
Sibling	Mary Lincoln (1775 - )
Sibling	Nancy Lincoln (1780 - )