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Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in a one-room log cabin in Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, now La Rue County in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln came from a working family.

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His mother was Nancy Hanks and his father Thomas Lincoln.

Abraham had an older sister, Sarah, and a brother, Thomas, who did not survive infancy. The family lived in Sinking Spring Farm for his first seven years.

Childhood

The Lincoln’s family cabin at Knob Creek. Source: National Park Service

In 1816 when Abraham was 7 years old the family moved across the Ohio River to Indiana.

Thomas, his father, had several reasons to move his family out of Kentucky. One reason was that the fertility of the soil of Sinking Spring Farm was decreasing every year. Also, Thomas was facing a lawsuit over his property titles.

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Property lines in that area were not clearly defined as land was not officially surveyed. Thomas Lincoln did not have the resources to clear his land titles in court. In abe lincoln president biography his early life5 RITYP