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Shortly after Lincoln’s burial, one or both of the Hanks brothers carefully deconstructed the cabin, While Mansberger says “there’s a lot of folklore associated with the cabin and it’s hard to tell what’s true and what isn’t,” he’s pieced together some facts. Is conducting an archaeological and archival assessment of the cabin site. Went his own way, taking a job as a flatboatman and ending up in New Salem.Īfter Abe’s assassination 34 years later, “a lot of things associated with him almost became enshrined and this cabinīecame one of those,” says Floyd Mansberger, director of Fever River Research in Springfield, which Thomas and Sarah Lincoln moved to south of Effingham and Abraham The next March, barely a year after their arrival, they’d had enough. They were frozen in and livestock and game were decimated.” Abraham rode to nearby homes seeking food for his family. They hadn’t been able to save enough of the corn and meal to sustain themselves…. “The Lincolns were extremely miserable (that winter),” says Bauer. “Winter of the Deep Snow.” Old settlers considered it a point of pride to have immigrated before then and To make matters worse, that winter was the worst in ages. Planning and landscape architecture firm that is the project’s prime consultant. They wereĭesperately ill,” says Sue Massie, with Massie Massie and Associates, a Springfield landscape “Some accounts say that Sarah (Abe’s stepmother) couldn’t even get out of bed to bring somebody water because she was so sick. The whole family came down with “ague,” or fever, chills and shakes, often caused by malaria. “They broke about 10 acres of sod and planted ‘sod corn,’ and (Abraham) helped cut those famous split rails they used to encircle the Smokehouse and outbuilding, but that’s uncertain. It took 21-year-old Abe, his father, his step-brother, and cousins John andĭennis Hanks about four days to construct the cabin. “They stayed the night at the square in Decatur…at that time it was a little village of a few dozen huts and cabins,” Bauer says. “Hanks made (Illinois) sound so good that eventually Thomas (Abraham’s father) determined he wanted to move.”īecause the previous winter had been very wet, their trip here was slowed by theĬopious mud. The Lincolns cameīecause John Hanks, Abraham’s second cousin and “one of his favorite relations of all time,” moved there earlier and wrote Abraham’s father proclaiming the area’s cheap, plentiful, fruitful land, Bauer says. “The Lincolns came to Illinois in March 1830 with a group of about 13 extendedįamily members,” says Kim Bauer, director of the Lincoln Heritage Project. So, for the first time, experts are unraveling theĬabin’s true story, which ends in mystery. Makeover and study of the cabin site, located in the state-owned Lincoln The city of Decatur, through its Lincoln Heritage Project, commissioned a The history of that long-gone cabin is a tangle Illinois from Indiana, they settled in a log cabin about three miles west ofĭecatur on the Sangamon River. When Abraham Lincoln, his father, stepmother, and step-brother first came to Standing in front of it are John and Dennis Hanks, Abraham’s second cousins. This is one of many depictions of what the Lincoln family cabin near Decatur looked like.