我于1809年2月12日出生在肯塔基州的哈丁县。我父母是弗吉尼亚州人,双方都是普通老百姓——也许应该说门第低贱。在我十岁时,母亲就离开了人间。她出身于一个叫汉克斯的家族,她家有些人如今住在亚当斯县,有的在伊里诺伊州的梅肯县落户。我祖父亚伯拉罕·林肯大约在1781或1782年从弗吉尼亚州移居肯塔基州,一两年后在那儿死于印第安人之手,不是在战场上,而是在森林中开辟农场时被杀害的。我父亲在祖父去世那年只有六岁,长大后可以 I was born on February 12, 1809 in Harding County, Kentucky. My parents are Virginia, both ordinary people - perhaps should be said to be cheap. When I was ten years old, my mother left the world. She was born in a family called Hanks, some of her family now living in Adams County, and some settled in Macon County, Illinois. My grandfather Abraham Lincoln relocated from Virginia to Kentucky in about 1781 or 1782 and died there Indians a year or two later, not on the battlefield, but on the opening of farms in the forest. My father was only six years old when his grandfather died, and he could grow up