Lincoln . lated about the worthlessness of thefather and mother of Abraham Lincoln. Twenty yearslater, through the efforts of Dr. J. M. Buckley, Miss IdaTarbell and others, these stories were sifted and theirutter falsity shown through documentary and other un-questionable evidence. In the vicinity of the Lincolnhome in Kentucky there had never been any question asto the respectability of Thomas Lincoln and NancyHanks. The marriage record and certificate, signed byRev. Jesse Head, a prominent and highly respected Meth-odist Minister, who performed the ceremony, are nowmatters of history. An ac
Lincoln . lated about the worthlessness of thefather and mother of Abraham Lincoln. Twenty yearslater, through the efforts of Dr. J. M. Buckley, Miss IdaTarbell and others, these stories were sifted and theirutter falsity shown through documentary and other un-questionable evidence. In the vicinity of the Lincolnhome in Kentucky there had never been any question asto the respectability of Thomas Lincoln and NancyHanks. The marriage record and certificate, signed byRev. Jesse Head, a prominent and highly respected Meth-odist Minister, who performed the ceremony, are nowmatters of history. An account of the marriage feast,with a detailed description and menu of the feast, re-markable for those times, has been put on record byparties present at the wedding. * * * Tom Lincoln wasa carpenter, and a good one for those days, when a cabinwas built mainly with the axe, and not a nail or boltor hinge in it. only leathers and pins at the door, and noglass, except in watches and spectacles and bottles. Tom. Birth and Frontier Life. When Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks begantheir married life, few, very few indeed were thecomforts of life in that then far frontier. The ad-vantages of school and church and culture, even intheir rudest form, were extremely limited. Therewere no established schools; and school terms, atthe best, were haphazard and irregular, of shortduration and far between, depending largely uponitinerant masters happening along. Here in thewilds of Kentucky, in this poor cabin home of thepioneer, on February 12th, 1809, came the childwho was destined to grace and honor our Nationshistory, and to stand forever among the foremostcharacters in all agesJ The child was strong and active and full of life,but outside a few stray incidents, a snap shot now had the best set of tools in what was then and now Wash-ington County. * * * I saw Nancy Hanks Lincoln ather wedding, a fresh-looking girl. Tom was a respectablemechanic and could choose, and she was treated withrespect
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