Abraham Lincoln's Ancesteral Home is a painting by Joan Shaver which was uploaded on May 18th, 2014.
Abraham Lincoln's Ancesteral Home
President Lincoln's Rockingham County Virginia Roots
The President�s great-grandfather, �Virginia John� Lincoln, of English ancestry, moved... more
by Joan Shaver
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14.000 x 11.000 inches
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Title
Abraham Lincoln's Ancesteral Home
Artist
Joan Shaver
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Paper
Description
President Lincoln's Rockingham County Virginia Roots
The President�s great-grandfather, �Virginia John� Lincoln, of English ancestry, moved his family from Pennsylvania to Rockingham County in 1768. Virginia John, his wife Rebecca, and their nine children, including the President�s grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, age 24, settled into a log house on Linville Creek. Those Lincolns and their descendants became prosperous and prominent families in the fertile land, among them farmers, cattlemen, a surveyor, and an innkeeper.
Abraham Lincoln married a local girl, Bathsheba Herring, and had five children; his son, Thomas, was to become the father of the President. Abraham moved his family west to the frontier of Virginia (later to become Kentucky) in 1780 when Thomas was age four. In 1809, the future president was born.
This is a painting of Lincoln's family home as it would have appeared around 1850. The home still stands today and is owned by a private family
The original is matted and custom framed.
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May 18th, 2014
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