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Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : Illustrated Booklet Company
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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and mind, of a lady, sankand died beneath the burdens which crushedher. Abraham was then ten years of age.Bitterly he wept as his mother was laid in herhumble grave beneath the trees near the cabin.The high esteem in which this noble womanwas held may be inferred from the fact thatParson Elkin rode a hundred miles on horse-back, through the wilderness, to preach her
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SARAH BUSH LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 11 funeral sermon; and the neighbors, to thenumber of two hundred, who were scatteredin that sparsely settled region over a distanceof twenty miles, assembled to attend the ser-vice. It was a scene for a painter,—the log-cabin,alone in its solitude; the widespread prairie,beautiful in the light of the Sabbath morningsun; the grove; the grave; the group seatedaround upon logs and stumps; the venerablepreacher; the mourning family; and Abraham,with his marked figure and countenance, hiseyes swimming with tears, gazing upon thescene which was thus honoring the memoryof his revered mother. Abraham had written the letter inviting thepastor to preach the funeral sermon. He soonbecame the scribe of the uneducated com-munity around him. He could not have had abetter school than this to teach him to putthoughts into words. He also became an eagerreader. The books he could obtain were few;but these he read and re-read until they werealmost committed to memo

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