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Submitted by martygraz1 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Abraham Lincoln
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A BABY BOY
On Feb.12, 1809, a baby boy was born in a log cabin on a farm near what is known now as Hodgenville, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Thomas Lincoln was a carpenter and skilled handyman, while Nancy was from a poor family and was illiterate, signing her name with only an X. This was the second child, their little girl, Sara, was two. They decided to call him Abraham, after Thomas’s father. In 1916 after losing the farm in a land dispute, the Lincolns moved to what is now known as Gentryville, Indiana. In 1818 and epidemic of what then was called milk sickness broke out. It was later learned that this was not a disease but actually poisoned milk from cows that had eaten wild snakeroot plants. One of the first victims to die of this sickness was Abraham’s mother, Nancy. Abraham was 9. The next year his father remarried a widow from Elizabethtown, Kentucky with three children. Her name was Sarah Bush Johnston. Abraham was very fond of her.
Living in Indiana in those times weren’t easy. Abe had many chores, but one he seemed especially good at was using an axe. Later as a presidential candidate he was nicknamed “Rail-splitter”. When Abraham found time away from his chores he attended an ABC school. These schools were in small log cabins, and the teachers were barely more educated than the students. His step-mother also taught him and at an early age and he could read, write, and do simple arithmetic.
By 19 Abraham was a full-grown man, standing 6’4”. Although very strong, Abraham never liked farm work. He started earning extra money by ferrying people and packages to riverboats that were midstream. He eventually was hired by local merchant James Gentry to take a cargo-laden flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. In March 1830 after another outbreak of milk sickness, the Lincoln family relocated to what is now Decatur, Illinois. There Abraham...
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