The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln . and Sally Bush are described by all as women of exceptionalqualities (H. M. Jenkins, The Mother of Lincoln, in Penn. Mag., , p. 130). ^ Morse, vol. i, p. 14. President Garfield and Jeremiah S. Black were Baptists. 3 They were known as active and consistent members of the walnut table made by him is still preserved as part of the furniture of thechurch (Letter of Rev. T. V. Robertson, Pastor of Little Pigeon Church,see Cent. Mag., November, 1886, p. 20). A church-goer and, if traditionmay be believed, a stout defender of his peculiar religio
The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln . and Sally Bush are described by all as women of exceptionalqualities (H. M. Jenkins, The Mother of Lincoln, in Penn. Mag., , p. 130). ^ Morse, vol. i, p. 14. President Garfield and Jeremiah S. Black were Baptists. 3 They were known as active and consistent members of the walnut table made by him is still preserved as part of the furniture of thechurch (Letter of Rev. T. V. Robertson, Pastor of Little Pigeon Church,see Cent. Mag., November, 1886, p. 20). A church-goer and, if traditionmay be believed, a stout defender of his peculiar religious views (HitchcocksNancy Hanks, p. 56). He was a consistent member through life of thechurch of my choice, the Christian Church or Church of Christ; and wasas far as I know . . always truthful, conscientious, and religious ( Goodwin of Charleston, 111., in 1887. N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., vol. xlviii,p. 238). ?• Rev. David Elkins, who, at the boy Abrahams entreaty, rode one hun-dred miles to officiate in the sad ?.A^c>7^/^9m,^^^^t^.y^a/9^€^tyt€t?7t^^ ^y7S?9^OeAyh.^. ^m^c^{^a/n€t/ f ? U ;. L 1 THOMAS LINCOLN —THE MAN 131 the region. His daughter, who had followed him in his pro-fession of faith, had been married at about the same time anddied in childbed less than two years after,^ adding anotherweight to the load of affliction of this already heavily burdenedman. John Hanks, the son of Joseph Hanks, of whom ThomasLincoln had learned his trade, had now also joined the littlehousehold at Pigeon Creek; but in 1829 he pushed on tothe westward with the pioneer instinct that seemed inherentin the race, and settled in Macon County, Illinois, whitherhis letters, filled with glowing descriptions of the incrediblefertility of the new land, drew his kinsfolk after him the fol-lowing year. The reasons of this last migration are not far to seek; abarren and infertile land, poisoned by miasma, tormented byinsect pests, and where sickness and death had followed himli
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