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Title: The true Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slaves Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
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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Nancy HanksLincoln, who was buried with her neighbors in a littleclearing in the forest in a coffin made of green lumber,cut with a whip-saw by her husband. There were noceremonies at her burial, but several months later Abra-ham, then ten years old, wrote to Parson David Elkin,the itinerant Free-will Baptist preacher at Hodgensville,of his mothers death, and begged him to come to Indianaand preach her funeral sermon. Nancy Lincoln musthave been highly esteemed or this poor parson wouldnot have come a hundred miles through the wildernessin answer to this summons from her child, for severalmonths later he appeared according to appointment, andall the settlers for many miles around assembled to hearhim. It was the most important event that had everoccurred in the community and was remembered longerthan any other. The death of Mrs. Lincoln left the child Sarah, thenonly eleven years old, to care for the household, and,with the assistance of her brother, she struggled through • > n t
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THE MAN AND HIS KINDRED the next year until the autumn of 1819, when theirfather returned to Hodgensville and married Sally BushJohnston, a widow with three children (John, Sarah,and Matilda), whom he had courted before he marriedNancy Hanks. She seems to have been a woman ofuncom.mon energy and nobility of character, and inafter-life her step-son paid her a worthy tribute whenhe said that the strongest influence which stimulated andguided him in his ambition came from her and from hisown mother. Under her management conditions im-proved. She brought a little property and som.e house-hold goods into the family as well as three children,stimulated her husband to industry, and taught his chil-dren habits of order, cleanliness, and thrift. There wasnever any friction between her and her step-children,and her own brood, John, Sarah, and Matilda, were re-ceived cordially and treated with affection. Nor in theirafter-lives was any distinction made by either of theparents. The step-mother re

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