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Sarah Bush Lincoln (December 13, 1788 – April 12, 1869) was the second wife of Thomas Lincoln and stepmother of Abraham Lincoln. She was born in Kentucky to Christopher and Hannah Bush. She was born in Kentucky to Christopher and Hannah Bush.
In 1819, Lincoln's father Thomas Lincoln married the widowed Sarah Johnston of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. In 1830, Thomas and Sarah followed their daughter and son-in-law and other family members as they migrated west from Indiana into Central Illinois ; Abraham, though now a legal adult, opted to follow his step-mother and father.
Sarah Bush Lincoln (December 13, 1788 - April 12, 1869) was the second wife of Thomas Lincoln and stepmother of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. 日本語: サラ・ブッシュ・リンカーン (1788年12月13日 - 1869年4月12日)はアメリカ合衆国大統領エイブラハム・リンカーンの継母。
Samuel Lincoln's father Edward Lincoln was born about 1575 and remained in Hingham, Norfolk, England. He died on February 11, 1640. [2] [3] Memorial dedicated to Lincoln's ancestors in St Andrew's Church, Hingham. Edward was the only son of Richard Lincoln (buried 1620 in the graveyard of St Andrew's Church) and Elizabeth Remching.
In the early 1820s, Lincoln was under considerable financial pressure after his second marriage as he had to support a household of eight people. For a time he could rely on Dennis Hanks to help provide for his large family, but in 1826 Dennis married Elizabeth Johnston, Sarah Bush Lincoln's daughter, and moved to his own homestead.
Thomas Lincoln, father of President Abraham Lincoln, spent the later part of his life on a homestead a few miles away, preserved today as the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site. Thomas Lincoln and his second wife Sarah Bush Lincoln are buried in Shiloh Cemetery south of town.
The church, like other churches in the West, would not likely have had a college-trained minister. [6] It was a Primitive Baptist or "Hard Shell Baptist" church. [7] Thomas joined the church with his second wife, Sarah Bush Lincoln, on June 7, 1823, [5] and five days later became a trustee. [4]
His sister Sarah Lincoln Grigsby was buried in the nearby Little Pigeon Baptist Church cemetery, across the highway at Lincoln State Park. Included in the park is the Lincoln Living Historical Farm. The Lincoln Boyhood Home was named a National Historic Landmark in 1960. [2] In 2005 the site was visited by 147,443 people.