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I was born Feb. 12. 1809 in then Hardin county Kentucky, at a point within the now recently formed county of Larue, a mile, or a mile & a half from where Hodgin'sville now is. My parents
being dead and my own memory not serving, I know no means of identifying the precise locality. It was on Nolin Creek.
June 14. 1860. A. LINCOLN
[1] ADS-F, Allen T. Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (1888), p. 607. According to the artist Thomas Hicks, who had painted Lincoln's portrait in June, 1860, the memorandum was jotted down at his request as he was leaving Springfield.