His choice fell upon a young woman of twenty-three whose name was Nancy Hanks.

Like her husband, she was of English descent.

Like his, her parents had followed in the path of emigration from Virginia to Kentucky.

The couple were married by the Rev.Jesse Head, a Methodist minister located at Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky.

They lived for a time in Elizabethtown, but after the birth of their first child, Sarah, they removed to Rock Spring farm, on Nolin Creek, in Hardin (afterward LaRue) County.