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Title: Abraham Lincoln and religion
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Little Pigeon Baptist Church (Spencer County, Ind.) Baptist church buildings Baptists Presidents Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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Where LincolnWalked to Church Young Ahe^s FatherHelped BuiM OriginalLittle Pigeon Church By GEORGE McCORMACK III 1818, just two years after theLincoln family came to Soutiiern In-diana, Nancy Hanks Liincoln died.Her death, like that of several otherain the Spencer County community,was caused by milk fever. No oneknew then that the illness was causedby white snakeroot, a poisonous plantthat killed cattle that ate it and pois-oned those who drank their milk. Her husband Tom Lincoln, assist-ed by a nephew, Dennis Hanks, fash-ioned a coffin of rough boai-ds whichwere held together by wooden pegswhich young Abraham Lincoln whit-tled to fit the gimlet holes. There wasno minister to comfort the family asNancy Hanks Lincoln was laid to reston a wooded knoll a short distancefrom tlie Lincoln cabin. The following year an itinerantpreacher, David Eikins, who hadknoun the Lincolns when they livedon Knob Creek in Kentucky, came toSpencer County, and he preached abelated funeral over the grave ofNa

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