Forkland Abraham Lincoln and Community Center Museum
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Forkland Abraham Lincoln and Community Center Museum
Forkland Community Center
in Southwest Boyle County
on Ky. 37, 30 minutes from Danville or Lebanon (see map)
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ATTENTION
The Forkland Community Center has received a grant for the purpose of writing a book about the Lucey Shipley Hanks Sparrow connection to Abraham Lincoln. Anyone related to the Sparrow family who is willing to share family history material for the book should contact the center at info@forklandcomctr.org or mail materials to Carolyn Crabtree, 2410 Chestnut Grove Road, Parksville, KY 40464.
Everyone is welcome to attend a special open house for the Abraham Lincoln Museum on March 1st from 10am-4pm. The schedule for events will be:
10:00am-4:00pm Light refreshments
10:15 Greeting - Shirley Sheperson
10:45, 1:00,
3:00 Singing of Lincoln’s favorite songs
Annette Cooper, Kylie Cooper, Madison Cooper, Pat Russell and Betsy Underco
10:30, 12:30 Monologue by Young Nancy Hanks
11:30, 2:30 Dialogue by Henry and Lucey Hanks Sparrow
1:30-2:00 Nina Bruce Warren Clooney talks about her Hanks/Sparrow connections to Forkland
11:00, 12:00, 1:15 Music by Lewis Lamb, Donna Lamb, and Jerry Scott
10:30-3:30
Demonstrations
Weaving on Kirkland Loom-Diane Evans
Tools used in everyday life of 1700-early 1800’s-Cambron Williams
Images of descendants
Interview room- Carolyn Crabtree
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Open during all special events
at the Forkland Community Center or
by appointment by calling Wayne Thurman at 859-936-7489 or Shirley Sheperson at
859-936-2061.
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Lucey Shipley Hanks, mother to Nancy Hanks Lincoln and grandmother of Abraham Lincoln, moved to Kentucky after the death of her husband James Hanks. She had been living with a sister Rachel Berry and her husband Richard in the Springfield, KY area but in 1790 she married Henry Sparrow, Sr. in Mercer County, Kentucky. Her daughter Nancy stayed in Springfield and later married Thomas Lincoln. Nancy and Thomas were the parents of President Abraham Lincoln. Lucey and Henry Sparrow lived on Scrubgrass in the Forkland area of Boyle County for over 34 years and had eight children whose descendants are scattered throughout Boyle, Mercer, and other counties in Kentucky. Because so little seems to be known about the maternal side of Lincoln's family, the Abraham Lincoln Museum was built. In the museum you will find photographs of family members, Lincoln artifacts and authentic newspapers about the death of Lincoln. Other artifacts in the museum show the life that people like Lucey and Henry Sparrow lived on the "Fork". We welcome you to come and experience what life was like in the 1800s-early 1900s in the Forkland area. You may also do genealogy research in the history room; we welcome information about any of the families that are connected with the Forkland area. |
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FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION, CALL 859-332-7146, 859-332-7839, OR 859-332-7606
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