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10.
Celia Hanks.
11.
Andrew Jackson Hanks (1815¬1889).
D. LUCEY HANKS (c.1767¬c.1833?). President Lincoln's maternal grand‚mother. Born Richmond County, Virginia. According to Herndon, Lin‚coln said Lucey became pregnant in Virginia by someone Herndon called a ¿nobleman of Virginia,î or ¿well-bred Virginia planter,î an account both credited and challenged by various Lincoln biographers. The child, born about 1783¬84, was President Lincoln's mother.
Lucey Hanks presumably migrated to Kentucky with parents 1784. She was accused by a Mercer County grand jury of ¿fornication,î 1789. Case discontinued when Henry Sparrow obtained marriage license, 1790. They were married by Baptist elder 1791. Resided near Mitchellsburg, Kentucky, in part of Mercer County that in 1841 became Boyle County. According to Dennis Hanks, Lucey died ¿in 1833, as well as I RecollectÜNot posi‚tive,î an estimate supported by census data. Henry Sparrow obtained a Revolutionary War pension, died in 1841. Lucey's child, according to Herndon by a ¿nobleman of Virginiaî:
1. NANCY HANKS (c.1783¬1818), married June 12, 1806 Thomas Lincoln (c.1776¬1851) in Washington County, Kentucky. Children born in Hardin County, Kentucky:
a. SARAH LINCOLN (Feb. 10, 1807¬Jan. 20, 1828). Married
Aug. 2, 1826 Aaron Grigsby in Spencer County, Indiana.
Died in childbirth.
b. ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809¬1865). Sixteenth President
of the U. S.
c. Thomas Lincoln. Died in early infancy, c.1811¬12.
Lucey's child with an unknown man in Kentucky:
2. Sarah Hanks (c.1787¬c.1854).
Sarah's Kentucky-born illegitimate children were:
a.
Sophia Hanks (1809¬1893). Until 1818 she lived with Eliz‚abeth and Thomas Sparrow, her mother's aunt and uncle. After their death, resided in Spencer County, Indiana with Abraham Lincoln in Thomas Lincoln household.
b.
Greenberry Hanks (c.1812¬1842).
c.
Creed Harris Hanks (c.1816¬185?).
d.
Samuel Haden Hanks (1820¬1898).
e.
Margaret Hanks (c.1823¬c.1877). Married Jackson Legrand of Dubois County, Indiana.
f. James Anderson Hanks (c.1825¬1862). Lucey Hanks' children with Henry SparrowÜall lived in Kentucky:
3.
Polly Sparrow.
4.
Rev. James Sparrow.
5.
Betsy Sparrow.
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