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Identifier: storylifeoflinco04whip (find matches)
Title: The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Whipple, Wayne, 1856-1942
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: (Philadelphia, The J.C. Winston Co.)
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 addressed it to Parson Elkin, the KentuckyBaptist preacher who had sometimes tarried with the Lincolns intheir humble home in Kentucky. It was a great favor to ask ofthe good man; for his journey to preach a sermon over the graveof Nancy Lincoln would take him one hundred miles or more, farfrom his customary stamping ground. But, in due time, Abra-ham received an answer to his letter, and the parson promised tocome when his calls of duty led him near the Indiana line. Early in the following summer, when the trees wTere thegreenest and the forest was most beautiful, the preacher came on FOURTEEN YEARS IN INDIANA 37 his errand of kindness. It was a bright and sunny Sabbath morn-ing, when, due notice having been sent around through all theregion, men, women and children gathered from far and near tohear the funeral sermon of Nancy Lincoln. There was the hardyforest ranger, come from his far-wandering quests to hear. Therewere farmers and their families, borne hither in rude and home-
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THE BELATED FUNERAL SERMON The good preacher told of the virtues and the patiently borne sufferings of the departedmother of Abraham Lincoln. made carts, new-comers, some of them, and homesick for theirdistant birthplaces. Two hundred of them, all told, some on footand some on horseback, and others drawn in ox-carts. All wereintent on the great event of the season—the preaching of NancyLincolns funeral sermon. The waiting congregation was grouped around on down trees, 3 8 THE STORY-LIFE OF LINCOLN stumps and knots of bunch-grass, or on wagon tongues, waiting forthe coming of the little procession. The preacher led the way fromthe Lincoln cabin, followed by Thomas Lincoln, his son Abraham,his daughter Sarah and . . . Dennis Hanks, bereft of father andmother, and now a member of the Lincoln household. Tears shoneon the sun-browned cheeks of the silent settlers as the good preachertold of the virtues and the patiently borne sufferings of the departedmother of Abraham Lincoln. And every

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