Collection Name
Collection Name
About
About
Pioneering Women
Media Items
Media Items
Media Items
ItemID
acwh076
IDEntry
2726
Creator
Text - Albert Feldstein, drawing - Lloyd Ostendorf
Collection Location
Allegany County, Maryland
Coverage
Allegany County, Maryland
Body
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln, was born in 1784, in Hampshire County, (West) Virginia. The birth occurred in a cabin along Mike's Run at the foot of New Creek Mountain in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia. Lincoln said of his mother, "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her." She died in 1818.
Notes
The image of Nancy Hanks Lincoln is from the Des Moines County Iowa Rootsweb