It was a subject that he rarely discussed, but in the early 1850s, while driving his one-horse buggy from Springfield over to Petersburg, Illinois, he found himself talking about it. Abraham Lincoln believed that his mother was illegitimate. Abraham Lincoln’s mother was one of at least eight Nancy Hankses born during the 1780s.
Their family tree is hard to trace because for generation after generation they tended to name all the males James or John, and the females Polly, Lucy, or Nancy. They were a prolific tribe, for the most part illiterate but respectable farmers of modest means. Lincoln knew almost nothing about his mother’s family, the Hankses, who moved from Virginia to Kentucky about 1780.
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