. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. oget a good supper. I saw Nancy Hanks Lincoln at her wed-ding, continues Mr. Graham, afresh looking girl, I shouldsay over twenty. I was at the infare, too, given by John , her guardian—and only girls with money hadguardians appointed by the court. We had bearmeat; . .venison; wild turkey and ducks; eggs, wild and tame, socommon that you could buy them at two bits a bushel; maplesugar, swung on a string, to bite off for coffee or whiskey;syrup in big g
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. oget a good supper. I saw Nancy Hanks Lincoln at her wed-ding, continues Mr. Graham, afresh looking girl, I shouldsay over twenty. I was at the infare, too, given by John , her guardian—and only girls with money hadguardians appointed by the court. We had bearmeat; . .venison; wild turkey and ducks; eggs, wild and tame, socommon that you could buy them at two bits a bushel; maplesugar, swung on a string, to bite off for coffee or whiskey;syrup in big gourds; peach-and-honey; a sheep that the twofamilies barbecued whole over coals of wood burned in apit, and covered with green boughs to keep the juice in; anda race for the whiskey bottle. After his marriage Thomas Lincoln settled in Elizabeth-town. His home was a log cabin, but at that date few peo-ple in the state had anything else. Kentucky had been in theunion only fourteen years. When admitted, the few brickstructures within its boundaries were easily counted, andthere were only log school-houses and churches. Fourteen. < ff^fi^f^ <^ RETURN op MARRIAGE OP THOMAS LINCOLN AND NANCY HANKS. From a tracing of the oricinal, made by Henry Whitney Cleveland. This certificate waa dificovered aboat1885 by \V. F. Booker, Esq., Clerk of Waehington County, Kentucky. ORIGIN OF THE LINCOLN FAMILY 13 years had brought great improvements, but the majority ofthe population still lived in log cabins, so that the home ofThomas Lincoln was as good as most of his neighbors. Lit-tle is known of his position in Elizabethtown, though we haveproof that he had credit in the community, for the descend-ants of two of the early store-keepers still remember seeingon their grandfathers account books sundry items chargedto T. Lincoln. Tools and groceries were the chief purchaseshe made, though on one of the ledgers a pair of silk sus-penders, worth one dollar and fifty cents, was entered. Henot o
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