Identifier: lifeofabrahamlin4913nich (find matches)
Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Nichols, Clifton M. (Clifton Melvin), 1830-1903 McKinley, William, 1843-1901. Oration on Abraham Lincoln Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Abraham Lincoln Knox, William, 1789-1825. Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York City Springfield, Ohio Chicago, Ill. : Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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m the family hadknown in Kentucky, came, but not until some months afterward, travelingmany miles on horseback through the wild forest to reach their residence; andthen the family, with a few friends and neighbors, gathered in the open airunder the great sycamore beneath which they had laid the mothers remains.A funeral sermon was preached, hymns were sung, and such rude but sin-cere and impressive services were held as are usual among the pioneers of thefrontier. 26 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Mrs. Lincolns grave never had a stone, not even a head-board, to mark it,and the exact spot is unknown. Two or three children belonging to a neigh-bor, Levy Hall and wife, and the Sparrows, were buried near the grave. Foryears the graves remained uncared for. They were crumbled in and sunkenand covered with bushes and wild vines. In 1879, Mr. P. E. Studebaker,of South Bend, Indiana, erected a stone over the graves, and a few of theleading citizens of Rockport, Indiana, built an iron railing around it. The
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THE GKAVE OF NANCY HANKS LINCOLN. inscription on the stone runs: Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Mother of President Lincoln, Died Oct. 5, A. D. 1818, Aged 35 years. Erected by a friend of hermartyred son, 1879. The next year was a sorry and dreary one for the children in their cold andcheerless cabin. Sarah, now twelve years old, was housekeeper, and cooked whatlittle they had to eat. Abe and Dennis were good-natured boys, and did whatthey could to pass away the long evenings and stormy days. In good weatherthe boys were busy getting up wood, doing the chores and hunting. Taking ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 27 game with trap and rifle was a necessary occupation, as they needed the meat forfood; and about their only source of income during the winter was from the saleof furs. Thirteen months after the death of his first wife, Thomas Lincoln returnedto Elizabethtown in search of another. He immediately called on Sarah BushJohnston, whom he had courted before he married Nancy Hanks. Sarah mar-ried Daniel Johns

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