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Show Lincoln Marriage Home to Be National Shrine The rude log cabin at Harrodsburg, Ky., in which the parents of Abraham Lincoln were married, is to he made a national shrine dedicated to prayer and marriage. The building, copy of a KentacUy Baptist church of 1800, will be dedicated dedi-cated June 12, 1933, the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of (he marriage of Thomas Lincoln t,nd Nancy Ha,nks. Citizens of Harrodsburg, the only Colonial town west of the Alleghenies and the place where George Rogers Clark conceived his conquest of the r 7 1 I A) Lincoln Memorial Church Northwest, say the shrine will remove re-move the last vestige of the cloud that for many years hung over the legitimacy legit-imacy of Lincoln's birth. The cabin will be in the center of the church. Iu the cabin will be an altar and a Bible. When Thomas Lincoln, then twenty-eight, twenty-eight, years old, and Nancy Hanks, a twenty-three-year-old orphan and domestic, do-mestic, were married in this cabin June 12, 1S0G, it stood on Beech fork-in fork-in the adjoining county of Washington. Washing-ton. The ceremony was a typical backwoods wedding, with Rev. Jesse Head, a .Methodist circuit rider, the officiating clM pyman. The cabin was owned by Richard Berry, Nancy's guardian. There was a Washington county tradition tra-dition that Lincoln's parents had been married in the "Dick Berry cabin" but there were no records to prove it until 3S78, when William F. Brooker. then county clerk, discovered the marriage bond signed by Thomas Lincoln and Berry, dated June 10, 1806, and a marriage mar-riage return certifying the wedding by Rev. Mr. Head. |
