. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . arts of Kentucky. Thomas Lincoln remained in Hardin county, where he grewup to manhood. In the year 1806 he married Miss NancyHanks, a native of Virginia, and settled down as a farmer upona small tract which he had won from the wilderness. Both heand his wife were members of the Baptist church, and wereearnest, religious people. Both were uneducated; Mrs. Lincolncould read, but not write, while Thomas Lincoln could doneither. He was noted as a man of kind heart, and generousimpulses, and his wife was a woman of excellent
. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . arts of Kentucky. Thomas Lincoln remained in Hardin county, where he grewup to manhood. In the year 1806 he married Miss NancyHanks, a native of Virginia, and settled down as a farmer upona small tract which he had won from the wilderness. Both heand his wife were members of the Baptist church, and wereearnest, religious people. Both were uneducated; Mrs. Lincolncould read, but not write, while Thomas Lincoln could doneither. He was noted as a man of kind heart, and generousimpulses, and his wife was a woman of excellent judgment,strong good sense, and amiable disposition. They had threechildren; a daughter who lived to womanhood, a son who diedin infancy, and the subject of this memoir. Abraham Lincoln, their youngest child, was born in Hardincounty, Kentucky, on the 12th of February, 1809. He grewup a stout, healthy boy, and as soon as he was old enough wasput to work on the little farm. When he was seven years old,he was sent to an old field school, where he learned, to read. (704). ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 705 He did not remain long at this school, however, for his father,towards the close of the year 1816, determined to remove fromKentucky to Indiana, and Abe, as the boy was called, wastaken from school to help to prepare for the removal. sold his farm for ten barrels of whisky, at that timethe usual circulating medium of Kentucky, and twenty dollarsin money, receiving in all the equivalent of about two hundredand eighty dollars. With Abes assistance Mr. Lincoln constructed a flat boat,on which he embarked his whisky and household goods, andfloated down Rolling Fork River into the Ohio, en route toIndiana, to buy a farm. Soon after entering the Ohio, his boatwas capsized and its entire cargo lost, save three barrels ofwhisky and some other articles. Disposing of these he suc-ceeded in reaching Spencer county, Indiana, where he locateda new farm, and then returned to Ke
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