Qualla: Joseph Hanks https://qualla.com/joseph-hanks en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/joseph-hanks-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Joseph Hanks https://qualla.com/joseph-hanks Joseph Hanks: Introduction https://qualla.com/joseph-hanks/ Photo credit The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia., CC BY 3.0. Two generations before Abraham Lincoln was born, his great-grandfather Joseph Hanks loaded eleven children, a wife named Ann, a granddaughter named Nancy, and the contents of a tenant farmer's life into wagons and started walking. They had been living on cheap land between the forks of Mike's Run, off Patterson's Creek in what was then Hampshire County, Virginia - now Mineral County, West Virginia. In March 1784, the family sold up and set off on the Wilderness Road, headed for Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap. None of the Hanks knew that one of the children they were carrying west would, in turn, mother the President of the United States.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/joseph-hanks-wp/dnzz-joseph-hanks-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Joseph Hanks: From the Northern Neck to the Allegheny Foothills https://qualla.com/joseph-hanks/ Photo credit The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia., CC BY 3.0. Joseph Hanks was born December 20, 1725, in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia - the Northern Neck country between the Potomac and the Rappahannock. His mother Catherine Hanks died in 1779. As executor of her will, Joseph inherited money from her estate, and that cap...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/joseph-hanks-wp/dnzz-joseph-hanks-from-the-northern-neck-to-the-allegheny-foothills.mp3 0:06 2 full Joseph Hanks: The Move to Kentucky https://qualla.com/joseph-hanks/ Photo credit The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia., CC BY 3.0. Two years later, in March 1784, Joseph Hanks sold his Hampshire County property under a mortgage arrangement and packed up the family for Kentucky. The route was the Wilderness Road - the trail Daniel Boone had marked through the Cumberland Gap - and the Hanks were part of the gr...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/joseph-hanks-wp/dnzz-joseph-hanks-the-move-to-kentucky.mp3 0:06 3 full Joseph Hanks: The Family That Raised a President https://qualla.com/joseph-hanks/ Photo credit The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia., CC BY 3.0. Joseph Hanks's children and grandchildren shaped Abraham Lincoln's youth in ways that are hard to overstate. Joseph's daughter Lucy Hanks was the mother of Nancy Hanks, who in turn married Thomas Lincoln and gave birth to Abraham. Joseph's daughter Elizabeth - Betsy Hanks Sparrow...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/z/z/joseph-hanks-wp/dnzz-joseph-hanks-the-family-that-raised-a-president.mp3 0:06 4 full Joseph Hanks: Aftermath and Memory https://qualla.com/joseph-hanks/ Photo credit The original uploader was Ser Amantio di Nicolao at English Wikipedia., CC BY 3.0. Joseph Hanks's 1793 will gave the home and property to his wife Ann for her lifetime, and then to their youngest son Joseph Jr. But Ann decided to return to her familiar country. In 1794 she and Joseph Jr. sold the Rolling Fork land to her older son William, and Ann went back to ...

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