. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . >£^L_ ^^2C^f/<C PORTRAIT OF JESSE HEAD, DEACON METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHCRCH, WHO MAKRIED THOMAS LINCOLN AND NANCY HANKS. (AFTER A SILHOUETTE BY RUDOLPH BOCCOSSINI, IN POSSESSION OF R. T. DlRRETT, ESQ.) funeral sermon over her grave, already stiffand white with the early winter snows.* This was the dreariest winter of his life, forbefore the next December came his fatherhad brought from Kentucky a new wife, whowas to change the lot of all the desolate littlefamily very much for the better. Sarah Bushhad been an acquaintance of Thomas Linc
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . >£^L_ ^^2C^f/<C PORTRAIT OF JESSE HEAD, DEACON METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHCRCH, WHO MAKRIED THOMAS LINCOLN AND NANCY HANKS. (AFTER A SILHOUETTE BY RUDOLPH BOCCOSSINI, IN POSSESSION OF R. T. DlRRETT, ESQ.) funeral sermon over her grave, already stiffand white with the early winter snows.* This was the dreariest winter of his life, forbefore the next December came his fatherhad brought from Kentucky a new wife, whowas to change the lot of all the desolate littlefamily very much for the better. Sarah Bushhad been an acquaintance of Thomas Lincolnbefore his first marriage; she had, it is said,rejected him to marry one Johnston, the jailerat Elizabethtown, who had died, leaving herwith three children, a boy and two Lincolns widowhood had lasted ayear, he went down to Elizabethtown to beginagain the wooing broken off so many yearsbefore. He wasted no time in preliminaries,but promptly made his wishes known, andthe next morning they were married. It wasgrowing late in the autumn
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