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Lincoln’s father, Thomas, was quite undistinguished. As his son later wrote, “by the early death of his father and very narrow circumstances of his mother, even in childhood [Thomas was] a wandering, laboring boy.” Born around 1776 in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, he moved with his parents and four siblings to Kentucky in 1780. Finding most land in the fertile Bluegrass region already taken, the Lincolns pushed on to the hardscrabble terrain between the Cumberland and Green rivers where they established a farm. Later, evidently fearing hostile Indians in that remote locale, they moved to a site on Long Run in Jefferson County. There they lived in a stockade, 18 miles from Louisville.
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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