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That is without a doubt the most ludicrous story I've heard during all my time of participating in Civil War posts, surpassing anything that stand waite has ever produced. If this is true then that means every single Lincoln biographer was either incompetent or in on some grand conspiracy.

Only trouble is, it is true and is evidenced rather abundantly by public records.

As to conspiracy, you said it, I didn't. The legend must not be questioned, the hype not denied now, the park is up and running in Ky. and jobs provided by Feds there, and to try to correct this might be interpreted as denigrating Lincoln's divinity and status as a deity.

This even though as one poster has said, it really does not detract from HIS [actual] character, but only attempts to debunk the legend about him, the myth not the man...

But this myth is just too holy to question, it seems, and even Lincoln master biographer Carl Sandburg (born in Illinois) knew the truth but could do nothing, save to move to North Carolina and live out his life not far from the REAL birthplace.

That is without a doubt the most ludicrous story I've heard during all my time of participating in Civil War posts...

Sure it's ludicrous. The real, little know, and totally undisputed story is that Abe was the love child of Elvis and Marilyn, but old Joe Kennedy thought Abe was his, so he made him President. The damnyankee revisionist historians have been hiding the truth out in Roswell for all these years. ;~))

Court records place Thomas Lincoln in Kentucky from 1786 to 1816. There is no evidence of his having ever been in NC and little known reason for him to have gone there. We also know Nancy Hanks was in Kentucky in 1806, when she married Thomas Lincoln. Moreover, a discrepancy of 5 years in Lincoln's age would surely have been noticed. While Abraham Lincoln's relations with his father were strained. One doesn't have to attribute this incompatibility to illegitimacy. More here.

Lincoln did speculate about his origins. But he suspected that his mother might have been an offshoot of one of the First Families of Virginia. Curiously, he apparently did not know that his ancestors had been locally prominent, successful farmers in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia before moving westward and returning to nature as frontiersmen.

And interestingly, one of the big promoters of the Enlow theory today is an Enlow descendant. Disprove the theory and it gets attached to another Enlow, Inlow or Enlows.