Nancy had a drunk, ambition-less, no good husband named Thomas Lincoln. For the third generation descendant, Solomon Lincoln who married Hannah Stetson, there is no known paper document that states his father is Joshua Lincoln (son of Thomas the husbandman). Abraham and Thomas Lincoln: Sons and Fathers in History and Song As in the excellent movie Lincoln (2012), we generally picture Abraham Lincoln full-grown as the great president. Libraries) Find more information about: OCLC Number: 15611712: Notes: Cover title.

Thomas Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln; Thomas Lincoln: Material Type: Biography: Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: John T Thomas; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Thomas took his new bride to live in a shed in one of the back allies of Elizabethtown. His grandfather, after whom Abraham was named, moved from Virginia to Kentucky in the early 1780s to seek fortune. His father was Thomas Lincoln, seventh generation of Lincolns in America. Named after his paternal grandfather Thomas Lincoln and uncle Thomas Lincoln, Jr., the fourth boy was soon nicknamed "Tad" by his father, for his small body and large head, and because he wiggled like a tadpole as an infant. Since both of those are unlikely, what you read is most likely not true. Thomas Lincoln was born on January 6, 1778, in Rockingham County, Virginia, third son of General Abraham Lincoln and his wife Bathsheba Herring Lincoln. One day Abraham and his three sons, Mordecar, Josiah and Thomas were planting corn when they were attacked by Indians, Abraham was killed.

If Thomas Lincoln was truly castrated at the age of 10, he would have to either have gotten Abraham Lincoln’s mother pregnant before he was castrated, or he is not Abraham Lincoln’s real father.

When Thomas was a small boy, his family joined the wave of pioneers traveling westward to Kentucky. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Father of President Lincoln. There is paper documentation that Solomon Lincoln, who married Elizabeth Franklin in Scituate, Massachusetts after Hannah died, is the son of Joshua Lincoln, son of Thomas.

Samuel couldn't allow his new love to live in a shed, so he bought Nancy and her husband a cabin at Nolin Creek. So it is easy to forget that he grew up as a child living in the wilderness dealing with normal family issues. Thomas Lincoln.