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Thomas “Tad” Lincoln (April 4, 1853 – July 15, 1871) was the fourth and youngest son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. Tad was named after Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father who had died in 1851. Tad’s head was unusually large at birth.
Apr 10, 2015 · Thomas was born in Virgina, and his family soon brought him west to Kentucky. Indians killed his father, named Abraham Lincoln, while he was clearing farmland, leaving young Thomas and his family fatherless. He moved to Hardin County, Kentucky in 1802, and one year later, purchased his first farm. Thomas married Nancy Hanks on June 12, 1806.
An Assessment of Thomas Lincoln. An Interview with Daniel Cravens Taylor. Sara Gabbard: Please trace the Lincoln family’s journey from England to Virginia. Daniel Cravens Taylor: President Lincoln was not familiar with his family history in early life.
Apr 10, 2015 · Tad was inventive in thinking up mischief and he became rather famous for his pranks, which he often carried out with the help of his older brother Willie. Tad died on July 15, 1871, at the age of 18, about six years after the assassination of his father.
From that postmortem period to present, most published critical judgments of Thomas conclude that he was a miserable failure both as a man and as a father. That is today’s conventional wisdom among Lincoln historians. It is time to take a fresh look at Thomas and reconsider those judgments and that wisdom.
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Thomas Lincoln (1776 or 1778-1851) and Nancy Hanks Lincoln (1784-1818). Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were married in 1806 in Hardin County, Kentucky. Their second child, Abraham (named after his paternal grandfather who had been “killed by Indians”), was born in 1809 on a three hundred-acre farm Thomas had purchased on Nolin Creek a year earlier.
