Family
Abraham Lincoln was born on Sunday, 12 February 1809, in a poor farming family in backwoods cabin, south of Hodgenville, Kentucky.
Lincoln’s father, Thomas Lincoln was descendant of weaver’s training who had migrated in the Massachusetts in 1637. Thomas Lincoln married Nancy hanks in 1806. They had three children’s, namely Sarah, Abraham and Thomas. At the youngest boy Thomas died in his infancy. Abraham was named after his paternal grandfather. Both his parents were members in Baptist group that had separated by another church due to opposite to slavery.
In 1816 Thomas Lincoln threatened with a legal battleship in challenged the title of his Kentucky farmland moved to the south-western Indiana. There are put up a bare structure with some logs and wood on public land and made it home for his family, with only blazing fire of wood stove to keep off the cold. As soon he strengthens his home to keep the cold. His homes to take make a permanent log cabin and bought a land on which it stood.
Young Lincoln was great help to his father in getting in fields cleaned and taking care of the crops but hated hunting and fishing since he could not bear to witness the pain it caused to the victims. He later recalled with a shudder the panthers scream and the bear that preyed on the swine’s. He also remembered the Indiana frontier life that was pretty pinching at times.
Abraham had attended school for a little while in Kentucky and continued to do so in Indiana where he went along for lessons along with his sister Sarah. In 1818 Nancy Hanks Lincoln died of what was then known as milk sickness, a disease that was contracted through cows that fed on the poisonous white snakeroot. It was the unhappiest time of Lincoln’s childhood, after his mother was buried in the forest nearby. He spent the approaching winter months like any other bewildered nine-year old, who missed the warmth and love of his mother, who was no more.
Thomas Lincoln married for a second time the next year to Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, Who brought three children of her own into the household and had a lot of care and love to spare for the motherless children of her new husband. Fortunately for Abraham, she was a good stepmother whom he loved very much. She ran the household well and treated Abraham and his sister Sarah as if they were her own children. She was particularly fond of Abraham and he of her. He later, always referred to her fondly as his angel mother.
Lincoln’s father, Thomas Lincoln was descendant of weaver’s training who had migrated in the Massachusetts in 1637. Thomas Lincoln married Nancy hanks in 1806. They had three children’s, namely Sarah, Abraham and Thomas. At the youngest boy Thomas died in his infancy. Abraham was named after his paternal grandfather. Both his parents were members in Baptist group that had separated by another church due to opposite to slavery.
In 1816 Thomas Lincoln threatened with a legal battleship in challenged the title of his Kentucky farmland moved to the south-western Indiana. There are put up a bare structure with some logs and wood on public land and made it home for his family, with only blazing fire of wood stove to keep off the cold. As soon he strengthens his home to keep the cold. His homes to take make a permanent log cabin and bought a land on which it stood.
Young Lincoln was great help to his father in getting in fields cleaned and taking care of the crops but hated hunting and fishing since he could not bear to witness the pain it caused to the victims. He later recalled with a shudder the panthers scream and the bear that preyed on the swine’s. He also remembered the Indiana frontier life that was pretty pinching at times.
Abraham had attended school for a little while in Kentucky and continued to do so in Indiana where he went along for lessons along with his sister Sarah. In 1818 Nancy Hanks Lincoln died of what was then known as milk sickness, a disease that was contracted through cows that fed on the poisonous white snakeroot. It was the unhappiest time of Lincoln’s childhood, after his mother was buried in the forest nearby. He spent the approaching winter months like any other bewildered nine-year old, who missed the warmth and love of his mother, who was no more.
Thomas Lincoln married for a second time the next year to Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, Who brought three children of her own into the household and had a lot of care and love to spare for the motherless children of her new husband. Fortunately for Abraham, she was a good stepmother whom he loved very much. She ran the household well and treated Abraham and his sister Sarah as if they were her own children. She was particularly fond of Abraham and he of her. He later, always referred to her fondly as his angel mother.
