Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were married on June 12, 1806, on the Beechland property of Nancy’s uncle, Richard Berry Sr., in Washington County, about twenty-five miles southwest of Harrodsburg, with the Reverend Jesse Head, a Methodist minister, presiding. The story of the marriage was largely forgotten until 1878, when the Washington County clerk discovered the marriage bond of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Attention turned to the cabin in the spring of 1911, when Harrodsburg resident N.L. Curry found a dilapidated cabin on the Beechland property owned by W.A. Clements. After learning its history, Clements allowed Curry to present the cabin to the Harrodsburg Historical Society in May 1911, and its logs were transported to Harrodsburg for seventeen dollars. In May 1913, the cabin was reerected on the historical society’s Old Fort Hill property at a cost of $261. The cabin is thought to be the one in which the Lincolns were married. Jesse Head, born circa 1768 in Frederick County, Maryland, migrated to Kentucky in the mid-1790s and lived in and around Springfield during the late 1790s and early 1800s, where he served as president of the city’s municipal Board of Trustees while also carrying out his ministry and working as a carpenter. He is chiefly remembered for officiating the marriage of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, the parents of President Abraham Lincoln. After his death on March 22, 1842, he was buried in Harrodsburg at Spring Hill Cemetery, where former Kentucky governor Beriah Magoffin, who served from 1859 to 1862, is also buried.