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Published: 2017-10-26
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Excerpt from Kentucky, Ancestral Homes: Hardin Thomas House Built by Thomas Lincoln Efforts to prove that Thomas Lincoln (father of the Sixteenth President) built the Hardin Thomas house, which is still standing near Elizabethtown, continue despite the lack of documentary records to nail down the facts. Up to date, the best information on the subject is to be found in Samuel Haycraft Jr's. A History of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and its Surroundings, written in 1869. On page 123, Chapter XXXII, Haycraft made the following statement: He (hardin Thomas) lived in a house rather better than usual for that day, the carpenter work of which was executed by Thomas Lincoln, the father of the late president; and the most of that work is to be seen at this day, sound as a trout, although done upwards of sixty years ago. Another Haycraft reference appears on page 55 of the Elizabethtown history as follows: He (jack Thomas) was born on the 7th day of February, 1790. His father (hardin Thomas) resided in a house the joiner's work of which was done by Thomas Lincoln, father of the president. Some of the descendants of Hardin Thomas contend that Jack Thomas was born in the cabin home in 1790 and that if Thomas Lincoln built the cabin it would have to be prior to 1790. Historians who have worked through Kentucky court house records are convinced that Thomas Lincoln was born in 1776, although President Abraham Lincoln probably believed that his father was born in 1778. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.