The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . in roots an splittin fails an huntin an trappin didnt leave Tom no time It was all he could do to git his fambly enough to eat and to kiverem. Nancy was tumble ashamed o the way they lived, but sheknowed Tom was doin his best, an she wasnt the pesterin was purty as a pictur an smart as youd find em could read an write. The Hankses was some smartern theLincolns. Tom thought a heap o Nancy, an he was as good to heras he knowed how. He didnt drink or swear o
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . in roots an splittin fails an huntin an trappin didnt leave Tom no time It was all he could do to git his fambly enough to eat and to kiverem. Nancy was tumble ashamed o the way they lived, but sheknowed Tom was doin his best, an she wasnt the pesterin was purty as a pictur an smart as youd find em could read an write. The Hankses was some smartern theLincolns. Tom thought a heap o Nancy, an he was as good to heras he knowed how. He didnt drink or swear or play cyards orfight, an them was drinkin, cussin, quarrelsome days. Tom waspopylar, an he could lick a bully if he had to. He jist couldntgit ahead, somehow. Reminiscences of Lincoln s Cousin and Play-mate, Dennis Hanks, written down by Mrs. EleanorAtkinson, in 1889. The American Magazine, Vol. LXV, February, 1908, page 361. CHAPTER II First Seven Years in Kentucky Birth of Abraham Lincoln Thomas Lincoln took his wife to a little log cabin in a hamletcalled Elizabethtown, probably because he thought it would be. In this cabin Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, and here he spent the first four years of his childhood. more congenial for her than his lonely farm in Hardin County,which was fourteen miles away; and perhaps he thought that he couldearn a better living by carpenter work than by farming. Heretheir first child, Sarah, was born about a year after the marriage. (22) FIRST SEVEN YEARS IN KENTUCKY Thomas Lincoln either failed to earn sufficient money to meethis household expenses or grew tired of his carpenter work, for,two years later, he left Elizabethtown and moved his family to hisfarm near Hodgensville, on the Big South Fork of Nolen Creek. Itwas a miserable place, of thin, unproductive soil and only partlycleared. Its only attraction was a fine spring of water, shaded by alittle grove, which caused it to be called Rock Spring cabin was of the ru
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