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Title: When Lincoln kept store
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sousley, Clarence
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: (Chicago) : (Dry Goods Reporter)
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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A partial view of the Village of New Salem as it is being rebuilt. [WHEN LINCOLN KEPT STORE 9] don't know that I ever said that. I don't swear today and I cannot remember that I ever did swear. And then, she continued, as a smile again lit up her face, I remember when I was a young woman and married on the farm, that Abe Lincoln and Billy Herndon and a little boy, all in a buggy, stopped at our front gate. I went out to see what they wanted, and Abe Lincoln looked at me and said, Don't I know you? and I said.
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The grave of Ann Rutledge, the first sweetheart of Abraham Lincoln.
I guess not, I dont know you. Then I looked at him a minute more and I knew who he was, and then I said, You ought to know me, you gave me my name, and he smiled and said, You [10 WHEN LINCOLN KEPT STORE] are Henry McHenry's daughter. I guess I will stop and have dinner with you. We had plenty to eat in those days, so I told him to alight and i would fix up the table. I had a big pitcher of sweet milk on the table, and Billy Herndon had been drinking too much whisky and was feverish, so he drank glass after glass of that milk. Every little bit he would address me and say, Mother, can't I have another glass of that milk? and I would pour him out another glass. But I was only a young married woman and had no children and his calling me mother embarrassed me. Abe saw this, and he patted me on the shoulder and said, Parthenia, don't pay any attention to Billy today, he is not himself. He's all right. Afterward, Mrs. Shipp kindly came

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