The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . eftfatherless and motherless by the death of Joseph Hanks andhis wife was a little girl called Nancy. She was but nineyears old at the time and a home was found for her with heraunt, Lucy Shipley, wife of Richard Berry, who had a farmin Washington county, near Springfield. Nancy had a largenumber of relatives near there, all of whom had come fromVirginia with her father. The litt
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . eftfatherless and motherless by the death of Joseph Hanks andhis wife was a little girl called Nancy. She was but nineyears old at the time and a home was found for her with heraunt, Lucy Shipley, wife of Richard Berry, who had a farmin Washington county, near Springfield. Nancy had a largenumber of relatives near there, all of whom had come fromVirginia with her father. The little girl grew up into asweet-tempered and beautiful woman whom tradition paintsnot only as the center of all the country merry-making but asa famous spinner and housewife. It was probably at the house of Richard Berry thatThomas Lincoln met Nancy Hanks, for he doubtless spentmore or less time nearby with his oldest brother, MordecaiLincoln, who was a resident of Washington County and afriend and neighbor of the Berrys. He may have seen her,too, at the home of her brother, Joseph Hanks, in Elizabeth-town. This Joseph Hanks was a carpenter and had in->herited the old home of the family and it was with him that. MAP OF SEW SALEM, ILLINOIS. Drawn for this biography by J. McCann Davis, aided by surviving inhabitantsof New Salem. Dr. John Allen, who lived across the road from Berry & Lincolnsstore, attended Ann Rutledge in her last illness. None of the buildings are inexistence to-day. IO LIFE OF LINCOLN Thomas Lincoln learned his trade. At all events, the twocousins became engaged and on June 10, 1806, their mar-riage bond was issued according to the law of the days later according to the marriage returns of the Rev-erend Jesse Head, they were married,—a fact duly attestedalso by the marriage certificate made out by the officiatingminister. The marriage took place at the home of Richard Berry,near Beechland in Washington County, Kentucky. It wascelebrated in the boister
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