Joseph Hanks

Joseph Hanks' children and grandchildren figure prominently in Abraham Lincoln's youth.

[5] Joseph and Ann Hanks' children are:[6][7][8][9] Joseph Hanks lived on 108 acres (44 ha) on a fork of Mike's Run, alongside Patterson Creek, Hampshire County, VA (now Mineral County, West Virginia).

[1][4][12][13][14][15] In March 1784 Joseph Hanks sold his property via a mortgage and moved with his wife, eight children, and granddaughter Nancy to Kentucky, having traveled on the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap.

The family then lived on land purchased February, 1787 about 2 miles north of the mouth of Pottinger's Creek and Rolling Fork, in a settlement called Rolling Fork or Pottinger's Creek settlement in Nelson County, Kentucky, until the death of patriarch Joseph Hanks in 1793.

[17] A man named Zachariah Riney bought Nancy's grandfather, Joseph Hanks, Sr. property off of Rolling Fork in Kentucky.

Joseph and Ann's grandchild, Nancy, went to live with her mother, Lucy Hanks Sparrow.

[18] Abraham Lincoln's great-grandparents are commonly believed to be Ann ("Nannie") and Joseph Hanks of North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, VA.[1][13][22][28] Joseph and Ann's children and grandchildren figured prominently in Abraham's life, including:

Replica of Joseph Hanks's cabin at Mike's Run in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia. The cabin was rebuilt in 1927 for the Nancy Hanks Memorial.