Person:Nancy Hanks (8)

Name^[1]^[8]	Nancy Hanks
Alt Name^[8]	Nancy Sparrow
Married Name	_____ Lincoln
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]^[8]	5 Feb 1784	Hampshire County, Virginia (now Mineral County, West Virginia)born out of wedlock to Lucy Hanks
Residence^[8]	Mar 1784	Nelson, Kentucky, United Statesmoved to Kentucky with grandparents Joseph and Nancy Hanks
Residence`^?`	1793	Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky, United Statesage 9 - after the death of her grandfather, Nancy moved in with mother Lucy and her husband Henry Sparrow and became known as "Nancy Sparrow"
Other^[8]	1799	Nelson, Kentucky, United Statesage 15 - gave birth to son Dennis Hanks out of wedlock but did not raise him ; son Dennis lived in the household of Nancy's sister Elizabeth (Hanks) Sparrow and her husband Thomas Sparrow until their death
Marriage	12 Jun 1806	Washington, Kentucky, United Statesto Thomas Lincoln
Marriage		to Unknown
Death^[8]	5 Oct 1818	Spencer, Indiana, United Statesage 38 - died of milk sickness at Little Pigeon Creek
Burial^[7]		Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Lincoln City, Spencer County, Indiana, USA
Reference Number`^?`		Q3335588^?

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Lea, J. Henry; Hutchinson, J. R. The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, Second Publisher: HeritageQuest Online, Second Address: http:/www.heritagequestonline.com/. (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1909)
85.
Hitchcock, Caroline Hanks. Nancy Hanks : The Story of Abraham Lincoln's Mother
1900.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, a frontier portrait
1953.
Nancy Hanks: Of Undistinguished Families; a Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Study of the Ancestry of the Mother of Abraham Lincoln ...
1959.
The Shipley Ancestry of Lincoln's Mother.

Lincolniana Publishers
The evidence that Abraham Lincoln was not born in lawful wedlock: or, The sad story of Nancy Hanks
late 1800s.

author William Macon Coleman
↑ Nancy Lincoln, in Find A Grave.
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 ^8.3 ^8.4 ^8.5 Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage, in Wikipedia
Last retrieved Feb 2016.

... There is long standing controversy regarding Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln's heritage. Nancy was the wife of Thomas Lincoln and mother of the 16th president Abraham Lincoln. ...

... A recent mitochondrial DNA test of descendants of daughters of Joseph Hanks, daughters of Lucy Hanks Sparrow, and two Shipley sisters show a match between Hanks and Sparrow and no match to the Shipleys, making it certain Nancy Hanks is the illegitimate daughter of Lucy Hanks, and that Lucy is the daughter of Ann "Nanny" Lee Hanks. ...