On arriving, a shanty for immediate use was hastily erected.

Three sides were enclosed, the fourth remaining open.

This served as a home for several months, when a more comfortable cabin was built.

On the eighteenth of October, 1817, Thomas Lincoln entered a quarter-section of government land eighteen miles north of the Ohio river and about a mile and a half from the present village of Gentryville.

About a year later they were followed by the family of Thomas and Betsy Sparrow, relatives of Mrs.Lincoln and old-time neighbors on the Rock Spring farm in Kentucky.