Thomas “Tad” LINCOLN

1853 - 1871  (18 years)

• Name	Thomas “Tad” LINCOLN
  Born	4 Apr 1853	Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
  Gender	Male
  Married?	N
  Cause of Death	Tuberculosis, pleuristic attack, pneumonia, or congestive heart failure (pick one)
  Died	15 Jul 1871	Chicago, Cook, Illinois
  Person ID	I4793	Main
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	President Abraham LINCOLN,   b. 12 Feb 1809, Hodgenville, Hardin, Kentucky ,   d. 15 Apr 1865, Washington, DC  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Mary Ann TODD,   b. 13 Dec 1818, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky ,   d. 16 Jul 1882, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois  (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F2823	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne UPTON,   d. 1596, Bassingthorpe, Lincoshire, England
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2019
  Family ID	F2829	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 4 Apr 1853 - Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois Died - 15 Jul 1871 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Tad was born and photographed with a small fissure on his upper lip just to the left of midline. Although undiagnosed at the time, contemporary documents described Tad by saying "he had a cleft palate and lisped." Twenty-first-century speech/language pathologist, John M. Hutchinson, interprets contemporary photographs and documents regarding Tad, as evidence the child had both communicative and craniofacial deformities. Cleft lip and palate are a phenomenon observed to "run in families". Hutchinson suggests that Tad Lincoln's cleft lip was inherited from his paternal grandfather and namesake who also was photographed with forme fruste of the upper lip on the left side. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S151] WikiTree, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lincoln-240.