Meanings and history of the name Cherry: | Edit. This name can refer to the sweet fruit with lovely pink blossoms, or it can be a form of the French word cheri(e), meaning dear one.It can be used independently or as a nickname for Cheryl, Cherilyn, Cherisse, and similar names.his name can refer to the sweet fruit with lovely pink blossoms, or it can be a form of the French word cheri(e), meaning dear one. It can be used independently or as a nickname for Cheryl, Cherilyn, Cherisse, and similar names.
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky (now LaRue County). He is a descendant of Samuel Lincoln, who migrated from Norfolk, England to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638.orn in Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln grew up on the western frontier in Kentucky and Indiana. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, where he served from 1834 to 1846.
When was Abraham Lincoln born? Lincoln was born at home in a one-room log cabin, and the homes he lived in as a child and young adult were similarly humble. When he moved to Springfield, he boarded with local families, doing odd jobs and teaching himself surveying to survive.