Lincoln, Jr., Thomas

Born: 1812-XX-XX Hardin County, Kentucky

Died: 1812-XX-XX Hardin County, Kentucky

Thomas Lincoln, Jr., was the third child of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln and the brother of Abraham Lincoln. Born near Hodgenville, Kentucky, Thomas Lincoln, Jr. lived only three days.

Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 27, 97; Waldo Lincoln, History of the Lincoln Family: An Account of the Descendants of Samuel Lincoln of Hingham Massachusetts, 1637-1920 (Worcester, MA: Commonwealth, 1923), 342.