A Child Is Born..Feb. 12, 1809 The little valley of Nolins Creek, a couple of miles from Hodgenville, Ky., looks much the same today as it did on the morning of February 12, 1809. A road winds up beside the creek; hills rise on either hand. But there is a marble monument today shielding the log cabin which on that morning stood alone on a hillside by a spring. It was late in the morning of that day in 1809 that Tom Lincoln built up the fire in the stick clay chimney, wrapped a bearskin about his wife, Nancy Hanks, and trudged two miles up the road to the nearest neighbors. Nancys got a baby boy, he announced hesitantly in his slow, quiet voice. They named him Abraham. Willis Thornton, in Almanac for Americans.