. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . A SHENANDOAH VALLEY SCENE. IN CHAPTER II. IN 1782, Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of President Lincoln,* with his -wifeand five children, three sons and two daughters, left Rockingham county,Virginia, in the Shenandoah valley, with a party of emigrants, for all rode horseback, and followed Daniel Boones trail through Cumber-land Gap. They suffered all the hardships and mishaps usual to such a
. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . A SHENANDOAH VALLEY SCENE. IN CHAPTER II. IN 1782, Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of President Lincoln,* with his -wifeand five children, three sons and two daughters, left Rockingham county,Virginia, in the Shenandoah valley, with a party of emigrants, for all rode horseback, and followed Daniel Boones trail through Cumber-land Gap. They suffered all the hardships and mishaps usual to such a slept on the ground, were delayed by floods and harassed by they reached Bear Grass Fort, in Mercer county, about fifty miles fromwhat is now the city of Louisville. A farm of five hundred acres on Lickingcreek was selected. Here in the dense forest he cleared a few acres of ground,built a little log cabin, and became a pioneer settler on the western generations past the Lincolns had been among those who kept on the crestof the wave of western settlement. They were typical pioneers, and marchedalong with those who pushed the frontier westward in the teeth of the forces ofthe
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