The Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site is an 86-acre history park located eight miles south of Charleston, Illinois, U.S., near the town of Lerna. The centerpiece is a replica of the log cabin buil
The reconstructed Lincoln family cabin
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Sarah Bush Lincoln was the second wife of Thomas Lincoln and stepmother of Abraham Lincoln. She was born in Kentucky to Christopher and Hannah Bush. Lincoln married her first husband, Daniel Johnston,
Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site
…visited, but he provided financial help to the household and, after Thomas died in 1851, Abraham owned and maintained the farm for his stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln. The farmstead is operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died in 1818 while the family…
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Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Indiana. This is a replica of the home that Sarah came to after marrying Thomas Lincoln. It is here that she raised her three children, Thomas' two children and Dennis Hanks, Nancy Hanks Lincoln's cousin.