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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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life of Mary Shipley Lincoln. She wasa widow with five young children, for two daughters had come to thecabin home. She did all that she could for them. Iso schools had beenestablished in Kentucky, and her children grew to manhood and woman-hood without any opportunity to obtain an education. The Lincoln family through all the generations had been on thefrontier of civilization. Few of the ancestors of Thomas had ever at-tended school. Their education was not from books, but from the hard-ships of hfe. They had lived righteous lives, and transmitted to tlieirchildren successively the inheritance of the manly character and Puritanfaith bequeathed by the weaver apprentice. Under the law of entail inKentucky the eldest son inherited the estate of a father, and so Morde-cai Lincoln came into possession of the farm, and Josiah and Thomasmust begin life in poverty. We have seen John Lincoln and John Hanks settling side by sidein the Shenandoah Valley. The children of Abraham Lincoln were in
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DEKEISDING THE FOltT. ANCESTRY- 15 Kentucky. It is not strange that the descendants of John Hanks shouldalso be there. Joseph Ilaidcs had emigrated to Kentucky. He was a,carpenter of Elizabethtown. Shall we think it strange that Thom-as Lincoln, who was working with him, found pleasure in the so-ciety of his nieces—Lucy, Elizabeth, Polly, and Nancy Hanks? Nancywas tall, dark-haired, comely, dignified, and winsome by her grace andkindness. She seemed at times as if looking far away—seeing whatothers did not see. She had attended school in Virginia, and stoodupon a higher intellectual plane than most of those around her. TheBible was read mornino- and evening, and her conduct was in accordancewith its precepts. She was on the frontier, where few books were tobe had to satisfy her thirst for knowledge, and where there was littleintellectual culture. Through the summer days she heard the mourn-ful cooing of the ring-doves, the mimicry of the mocking-bird, and thetender notes of the he

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