I was born February 12.1809,in Hardin County,Kentucky.My parents were both born in Virginia,of undistinguished families--second families~1,perhaps I should say.My mother.who died in my tenth year,was of a family of the name of Hanks,some of whom now (?)eside in Adams,and others in Macon county,(?)inois.My paternal grandfather,Abraham Lincoln,emigrated~2 from RockinghamCounty,Virginia,to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782,where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians,not in battle,but by stealth~3,when he was laboring to I was born February 12.1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families ~ 1, perhaps I should say .My mother.who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now (?) eside in Adams, and others in Macon county, (?) inois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated ~ 2 from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth ~ 3, when he was laboring to