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Fielding Hanks, born 1783 in Virginia. Son of Abraham Hanks and Sarah Harper Hanks.
Presumed brother of Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
Fielding was one of Morgan Co., Kentucky's founding magistrates. He settled in the part of Old Morgan Co. that later became Campton, now Wolfe Co. Kentucky. Fielding built a cabin there in 1818.
He and John Harper were in the War of 1812. His wife Lydia was a full blooded Choctaw Indian.
Daughter of John and Mary Ann Harper.
Both Fielding and Lydia died in 1861. They are buried in the old cemetery behind the present
Church of God in Campton.
Fielding's name is cast in bronze on the Founders monument in Morgan's courthouse square.
sources: Adin Baber's "Nancy Hanks, The Destined Mother of a President", Joe Nickell, "Morgan
County, the EarliestYears", The Wolfe County News - 12-1-1989.
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