Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the parents of future president Abraham Lincoln, were married near here on June 12, 1806. Shortly after their wedding, they moved to Elizabethtown, where their daughter Sarah was born. The family eventually lived near Hodgenville, where Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809. Nancy died of milk sickness in 1818, when Abraham was 9 years old. His father, a farmer and carpenter, died in Ill. in 1851. Abraham’s uncle Mordecai Lincoln lived a half-mile south of here, later moved to Ill., and, Lincoln wrote, “I often saw Uncle Mordecai.” Lincoln Homestead State Park was established 1936.