Thomas Lincoln
American farmer ‧ Abraham Lincoln's fatherWikipedia
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Oct 20, 2026
Chuck CainHOST
Uh, a flyer that was put out by one of the major underwriters, and it had a picture of Abraham Lincoln with a big teardrop, and the headline was, "Lincoln Lost His Home." And it talked about, and sort of, you know, what you're discussing here, that when the Lincolns moved to Western Kentucky, where Abe Lincoln was born, they were essentially on a land contract, a contract for purchase of a farm there outside of Hodgenville.
Chuck CainHOST
But what they didn't realize was the guy who signed the contract with them didn't own the land, and when the guy who did own the land showed up and demand all of his back rents, and that he was gonna sue Tom Lincoln to collect all the back rents, the Lincolns literally had to flee to Indiana, which is where Abraham Lincoln actually was raised as a child.
Chuck CainHOST
[laughs]
Tim HooperGUEST
Wow.
LandonGUEST
Who, who was it?
JJ VanceGUEST
Well, that is supposedly Abraham Lincoln's daddy, right? One Thomas Lincoln.
JJ VanceGUEST
He looks nothing like him, right? In my opinion, though.
JJ VanceGUEST
And then there's, there's a, there's a history out of that same area of North Carolina we were talking about at the start of tonight's show.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
HIS EARLY HISTORY AND EDUCATION Abraham Lincoln, the pioneer boy, the flat boatman, the rail splitter, the self-educated lawyer, the congressman, and the President of the United States, was born on the 12th day of February, 1809, in an obscure cabin in that portion of Hardin County, Kentucky, which has since been formed into the County of LaRue.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
like that of jackson clay webster and others whose illustrious names are bright upon the scroll of our nation's history his early life was cast in the unfavouring crucible of poverty and toil a crucible from which we come forth dross or gold as the case may be thomas lincoln his father and Abraham, his grandfather, were native to the soil of Rockingham County, Virginia, their ancestors having emigrated thither from Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
Further back than this, we find it difficult to trace his genealogy.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
It was a Quaker family, originally, but, as time drew on, the characteristic habits of that sect seemed to have been forsaken by the Lincolns.
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Brandon B.NARRATOR
The Old Dominion was also her native state, and some relatives of hers were, in 1864, residing in Illinois, in the counties of Coles, Macon, and Adams, as well as in Iowa.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
Thomas Lincoln and his wife were plain people, members of the Baptist Church, and about equally uneducated.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
The latter could read, but not write, while her husband, as we have before stated, could manage his own name as a penman, but, it is said, in a style more perplexing than readable.
TinyHOST
Okay.
TinyHOST
And then, I, I mean, in the paper you were talking about Thomas Lincoln, right?
Steve SmithGUEST
Yeah.
TinyHOST
And his association of being a part of putting it on flat boats, but not actually have documentation that he was putting whiskey on the flat boats.
Steve SmithGUEST
No, he, he ...
Steve SmithGUEST
So it's well documented that when he moved ...
Steve SmithGUEST
So Thomas Lincoln lived about a quarter mile away.
Steve SmithGUEST
Lincoln's boyhood home is about a quarter, half mile from Athertonville today.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
HIS EARLY HISTORY AND EDUCATION Abraham Lincoln, the pioneer boy, the flat boatman, the rail splitter, the self-educated lawyer, the congressman, and the President of the United States, was born on the 12th day of February, 1809, in an obscure cabin in that portion of Hardin County, Kentucky, which has since been formed into the County of LaRue.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
like that of jackson clay webster and others whose illustrious names are bright upon the scroll of our nation's history his early life was cast in the unfavouring crucible of poverty and toil a crucible from which we come forth dross or gold as the case may be thomas lincoln his father and abraham his grandfather were native to the soil of Rockingham County, Virginia, their ancestors having emigrated thither from Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
Further back than this, we find it difficult to trace his genealogy.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
It was a Quaker family, originally, but, as time drew on, the characteristic habits of that sect seemed to have been forsaken by the Lincolns.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
It feels good to Geico.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
The Old Dominion was also her native state, and some relatives of hers were, in 1864, residing in Illinois, in the counties of Coles, Macon, and Adams, as well as in Iowa.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
Thomas Lincoln and his wife were plain people, members of the Baptist Church, and about equally uneducated the latter could read but not write while her husband as we have before stated could manage his own name as a penman but it is said in a style more perplexing than readable nevertheless he could fully appreciate the value of a better education than he himself possessed and was not devoid of that truly democratic reverence which can bow before superior mental attainments in others he was besides an industrious cheerful kind-hearted man his wife was a woman of excellent judgment sound sense and proverbial piety and withal an excellent helpmeet for a backwoodsman of thomas lincoln's stamp and a mother whose piety and affection must have been of inestimable value in the shaping and directing of her children's destinies says the poet there's a divinity that shapes our ends rough hew them as we will but how much that divinity is controlled and directed by the heart and hand of the mother the lives of all men remind us.
Brandon B.NARRATOR
In their keeping rests the destiny of their children, to an almost exact degree.
Matthew PinskerGUEST
You know, his father wasn't really a farmer.
Matthew PinskerGUEST
We think of Thomas Lincoln as this struggling farmer.
Matthew PinskerGUEST
But the truth is, his father was a carpenter and a good one.
Matthew PinskerGUEST
And he made fine furniture that still exists today.