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UNCOLN
MEMORIAL BUILDING
*• THB CRADLK OF LINCOLN "
LINCOLN
MEMORIAL BUILDING
HODGEKVILLE, KENTUCKY
"The Cradle of Lincoln"
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By
LOUIS A. WARREN
PUBLISHERS
HERALD NEWS COMPANY,
HODGENVILLE, KY.
Ctrta-c/ fL
Copyright, 1921
By Rev. Louis A. Warren.
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PREFACE.
This leaflet has been published to satisfy the
constant demand of tourists for an accurate and per-
manent copy of the many inscriptions on the interior
and exterior walls of.the Lincoln Memorial Building
at the birth-place of Abraham Lincoln.
It also presents a sketch of the memorial build-
ing and cabin contained therein and the Frontispiece
offers a likeness of the structure that houses the
home in which Lincoln was born.
Those desiring" a more extensive description of
the places of interest at Lincoln National Park may
secure a forty-page booklet with eighteen views of
the park, including the log cabin. Another leaflet
giving the orations of three presidents, Roosevelt,
Taft, and Wilson, on the occasions of their visits to
the Park can be obtained. Both books may be pur-
chased from the publishers of this leaflet.
THE MEMORIAL BUILDING.
Tlie Lincoln Memorial Building situated at
Hodgejiville, Ky., was erected by the Lincoln Farm
Association to mark the birth-place of Abraham
Lincoln and conserve the cabin in which he was
born. Funds Were raised by public subscription
largely through the medium of ''Collier's Weekly.''
Three noteworthy celebrations were arranged
during the erection of the building; the laying of
the corner stone by President Theodore Roosevelt,
on Feb. 12, 19C9, the hundredth anniversary of Lin-
coln's birth; the dedication of the building by Presi-
dent William Howard Taft, on Nov. 9, 1911 ; and the
acceptance of the structure by Woodrow Wilson, on
behalf of the United States of America, on Sept.
4, 1916.
The log cabin within the memorial building is
practically the same as in the day of Lincoln's birth.
A few logs from another cabin were used to repl?.ce
those broken in moving the cabin about for exhibi-
tion purposes, but the most of the 143 logs are from
the original building and reconstructed in its origi-
nal design. The post in the center of the cabin was
placed there to mark the spot from which the cabin
was moved to the Nashville Centennial in 1894.
r I
EXTERIOR INSCRIPTIONS
ON
MEMORIAL BUILDING
HERE
OVER THE LOG CABIN WHERE ABRAHAM
LINCOLN WAS BORN DESTINED TO
PRESERVE THE UNION AND FREE THE SLAVE
A GRATEFUL PEOPLE HAVE DEDICATED
THIS MEMORIAL TO UNITY PEACE
AND BROTHERHOOD AMONG THE STATES
Wn^H MALIC^E TOWARDS NONE,
WITH CHARITY FOR ALL
I^ET US HAVE FAITH
THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT,
AND IN THAT FAITH LET US TO
THE END DARE TO DO OUR DUTY
Cooper Institute, N. Y. Feb. 27, 1860.
STAND WITH ANYBODY THAT
STANDS RIGHT
STAND WITH HIM WHILE HE
IS RIGHT, AND PART WITH HIM
WHEN HE GOES WRONG
Peoria, 111., Oct. 16, 1854.
THIS MEMORIAL
ERECTED
BY POPULAR SUBSCRIPTION
THROUGH THE
LINCOLN FARM ASSOCIATION
JOSEPH W. FOLK .
PRESIDENT
ROBERT J. COLLIER
VICE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
CLARENCE H. MACKAY
TREASURER
RICHARD LLOYD JONES
SECRETARY
JOHN RUSSELL POPE
ARCHITECT
CORNERSTONE LAID BY
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
FEBRUARY 12, 1909
DEDICATED BY
PRESIDENT TAFT
NOVEMBER 9, 1911
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE
LINCOLN FARM ASSOCIATION
WILLIAM H. TAFF
JOSEPH W. FOLK
HORACE POKTER
CHARLES E. HUGHES
OSCAR S. STRAUS
JOHN A. JOHNSON
ALBERT SHAW
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS
CLARENCE H. MACKAY
NORMAN HAPGOOD
LYMAN J. GAGE
SAMUEL GOMPERS
AUGUST BELMONT
ROBERT J. COLLIER
AUGUSTUS E. WILLSON
HENRY WATTERSON
JENKINS LLOYD JONES
THOMAS HASTINGS
IDA M. TARBELL
CHARLES A. TOWNE
RICHARD Lloyd jones
CARDNIAL GIBBONS
JOSEPH H. CHAOTE
EDWARD M. SHEPHERD
WILLIAM J. BRYAN
CHARLES E. MINER
WILLIAM T. JEROME
AUGUSTUS ST. GAUDBNS
INSCRIPTIONS WITHIN
HE WAS THE NORTH, THE SOUTH, THE EAST, THE WEST.
THE THRALL, THE MASTER, ALL OF US IN ONE;
THERE WAS NO SECTION THAT HE HELD THE BEST;
HIS LOVE SHOWN AS IMPARTIAL AS THE SUN;
AND SO REVENGE APPEALED TO HIM IN VAIN,
HE SMILED AT IT AS AT A THING FORLORN,
AND GENTLY PUT IT FROM HIM, ROSE AND STOOD
A MOMENTS SPACE IN PAIN,
REMEMBERING THE PRARIES AND THE CORN
AND THE GLAD VOICES OF THE FIELD AND WPOD.
MAURICE THOMPSON
THE COLOR OF THE GROUND WAS IN HIM THE RED EARTH
THE SMELL AND SMACK OF ELEMENTAL THINGS:
THE RECTITUDE AND PATIENCE OF THE CLIFF;
THE GOOD WILL OF THE RAIN THAT LOVES ALL LEAVES;
THE FRIENDLY WELCOME OF THE WAYSIDE WELL;
THE COURAGE OF THE BIRD THAT DARES THE SEA;
THE GLADNESS OF THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE CORN;
THE MERCY OF THE SNOW THAT HIDES ALL SCARS;
THE SECRECY OF STREAMS THAT MAKE THEIR WAY
BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN TO THE RIFTED ROCK;
THE UNDELAYING JUSTICE OF THE LIGHT
THAT GLIDES AS FREELY TO THE SHRINKING FLOWER
AS TO THE GREAT OAK FLARING TO THE WIND
TO THE GRAVES LOW HILL AS TO THE MATTERHORN
THAT SHOULDERS OUT THE SKY.
EDWIN MARKHAM
MEMORIAL BUILDING
I WAS BORN FEB. 12, 1809, IN HARDIN COUNTY
KENTUCKY. MY PARENTS WERE BORN IN
VIRGINIA. KY MOTHER WHO DIED IN MY TENTH
YEAR, WAS OF A FAMILY OF THE NAME OF HANKS.
MY FATHER AT THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER WAS
BUT SIX YEARS OF AGE, AND HE GREW UP,
LITTERALLY WITHOUT EDUCATION. HE REMOVED
FROM KENTUCKY TO WHAT IS NOW SPENCER
COUNTY, INDIANA, IN MY EIGHTH YEAR. WE REACHED
OUR NEW HOME ABOUT THE TIME THE STATE
CAME INTO THE UNION. IT WAS A WILD REGION,
WJTH MANY BEARS AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS,
STILL IN THE WOODS. THERE I GREW UP. THERE
WERE SOME SCHOOLS, SO CALLED.
THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO EXCITE
AMBITION FOR EDUCATION. OF COURSE WHEN
I CAME OF AGE I DID NOT KNOW MUCH. STILL,
SOMEHOW, I COULD READ, WRITE, AND CIPHER
TO THE RULE OF THREE, BUT THAT WAS ALL.
THE LITTLE ADVANCE I NOW HAVE UPON THIS
STORE OF EDUCATION, I HAVE PICKED UP FROM
TIME TO TIME, UNDER THE PRESSURE
OF NECESSITY.
A. LINCOLN
THOMAS LINCOLN
January 30, 1770 January 17, 1851
FIFTH IN DESCENT FROM SAMUEL LINCOLN, WEAVER,
WHO LANDED AT HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 26,
1637. ORPHANED AT SIX YEARS OF AGE BY AN INDIAN
BULLET HE GREW UP HOMELESS IN THE WILD WOODS
OF KENTUCKY. AT TWENTY-FIVE HE WAS THE
POSSESSOR OF THIS CABIN HOME AND ITS
NEIGHBORING ACRES. IN 1818 HE MOVED TO INDIANA,
THEN A TERRITORY, FIVE YEARS LATER HE FOLLOWED
THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION TO ILLINOIS, WHERE HE
LIVED A PEACEFUL, INDUSTRIOUS, RESPECTED
CITIZEN, A GENERAL, HONEST AND CONTENTED
PIONEER. WITH COURAGE AND ENERGY HE BUILT
WITH HIS OWN HAND FIVE HOMES, EACH BETTER
THAN THE PRECEEDING ONE, HE WON AND HELD
THE LOVE AND CONFIDENCE OF TWO NOBLE WOMEN
AND HE WAS THE FATHER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
"MY FATHER INSISTED THAT NONE OF HIS CHILDREN
SHOULD SUFFER FOR THE WANT OF EDUCATION AS HE
HAD." ABRAHAM LINCOLN
"HE WAS A GOOD CARPENTER FOR THE TIMES.
HE HAD THE BEST SET OF TOOLS IN WASHINGTON
COUNTY. THE LINCOLNS HAD A COW AND A CALF,
MILK AND BUTTER, A GOOD FEATHER BED— FOR I HAVE
SLEPT ON IT, THEY HAD A HOME-WOVEN 'KIVERLID,'
BIG AND LITTLE POTS, A LOOM AND WHEEL.
TOM LINCOLN WAS A MAN AND TOOK CARE OF HIS
WIFE. REVEREND JESSE HEAD, THE MINISTER
WHO MAFRIED TOM LINCOLN AND NANCY HANKS,
TALKED BOLDLY AGAINST SLAVERY AND TOM AND
NANCY LINCOLN AND SARAH BUSH WERE JUST
STEEPED FULL OF JESSE HEAD'S NOTIONS
ABOUT THE WRONGS OF SLAVERY AND THE RIGHTS
OF MAN AS EXPLAINED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON AND
THOMAS PAINE."
Professor T. C. Graham of Louisville, Kentucky
NANCY HANKS LINCOLN
February 4, 1784 October 5, 1818
BORN IN VIRGINIA; WHEN THREE YEARS OLD
HER PARENTS JOSEPH AND NANCY SHIPLEY
HANKS, CROSSED THE MOUNTAINS INTO
KENTUCKY. ORPHANED AT NINE SHE WAS ADOPTED
AND REARED BY RICHARD AND LUCY SHIPLEY
BERRY, AT WHOSE HOME IN BEECHLAND, WASH-
INGTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SHE WAS MARRIED TO
THOMAS LINCOLN, JUNE 17, 1806. OF THIS UNION
WERE BORN SARAH, ABRAHAM AND THOMAS. THE
FIRST MARRIED AARON GRIGSBY AND DIED IN
INDIANA IN 1828. THE LAST DIED IN INFANCY. THE
SECOND LIVED TO WRITE THE EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION. THE DAYS OF THE DISTAFF, THE
SKILLETT, THE DUTCH OVEN, THE OPEN FIREPLACE
WITH ITS IRON CRANE ARE NO LONGER, BUT
HOMEMAKING IS STILL THE FINEST OF THE FINE
ARTS. NANCY HANKS WAS TOUCHED WITH THE
DIVINE APTITUDES OF THE FIRESIDE. LOVE AND
HONORED FOR HER WIT, GENIALITY AND INTELLIGENCE,
SHE JUSTIFIED AN ANCESTRY REACHING BEYOND
THE SEAS, REPRESENTED BY THE NOTABLE NAMES
OF HANKS, SHIPLEY, BOONE, EVANS AND MORRIS. TO HER
WAS ENTRUSTED THE TASK OF TRAINING A GIANT, IN
WHOSE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES SHE WAS HALLOWED.
OF HER HE SAID, "MY EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS OF MY
MOTHER IS SITTING AT HER FEET WITH MY SISTER DRINK-
ING IN THE TALES AND LEGENDS THAT WERE READ AND
RELATED TO US." TO HIM ON HER DEATH BED SHE
SAID: 'I AM GOING AWAY FROM YOU ABRAHAM, AND
I SHALL NOT RETURN. I KNOW YOU WILL BE A GOOD BOY,
THAT YOU WILL BE KIND TO SARAH AND YOUR FATHER.
I WANT YOU TO LIVE AS I HAVE TAUGHT YOU TO AND TO
LOVE YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.' ''ALL THAT I AM OR
HOPE TO BE I OWE TO MY DARLING MOTHER."
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MEMORIAL BUILDING
*• THB CRADLK OF LINCOLN "
LINCOLN
MEMORIAL BUILDING
HODGEKVILLE, KENTUCKY
"The Cradle of Lincoln"
/
By
LOUIS A. WARREN
PUBLISHERS
HERALD NEWS COMPANY,
HODGENVILLE, KY.
Ctrta-c/ fL
Copyright, 1921
By Rev. Louis A. Warren.
/
^S fo-.. ©CI.A617618
->.\< «.
PREFACE.
This leaflet has been published to satisfy the
constant demand of tourists for an accurate and per-
manent copy of the many inscriptions on the interior
and exterior walls of.the Lincoln Memorial Building
at the birth-place of Abraham Lincoln.
It also presents a sketch of the memorial build-
ing and cabin contained therein and the Frontispiece
offers a likeness of the structure that houses the
home in which Lincoln was born.
Those desiring" a more extensive description of
the places of interest at Lincoln National Park may
secure a forty-page booklet with eighteen views of
the park, including the log cabin. Another leaflet
giving the orations of three presidents, Roosevelt,
Taft, and Wilson, on the occasions of their visits to
the Park can be obtained. Both books may be pur-
chased from the publishers of this leaflet.
THE MEMORIAL BUILDING.
Tlie Lincoln Memorial Building situated at
Hodgejiville, Ky., was erected by the Lincoln Farm
Association to mark the birth-place of Abraham
Lincoln and conserve the cabin in which he was
born. Funds Were raised by public subscription
largely through the medium of ''Collier's Weekly.''
Three noteworthy celebrations were arranged
during the erection of the building; the laying of
the corner stone by President Theodore Roosevelt,
on Feb. 12, 19C9, the hundredth anniversary of Lin-
coln's birth; the dedication of the building by Presi-
dent William Howard Taft, on Nov. 9, 1911 ; and the
acceptance of the structure by Woodrow Wilson, on
behalf of the United States of America, on Sept.
4, 1916.
The log cabin within the memorial building is
practically the same as in the day of Lincoln's birth.
A few logs from another cabin were used to repl?.ce
those broken in moving the cabin about for exhibi-
tion purposes, but the most of the 143 logs are from
the original building and reconstructed in its origi-
nal design. The post in the center of the cabin was
placed there to mark the spot from which the cabin
was moved to the Nashville Centennial in 1894.
r I
EXTERIOR INSCRIPTIONS
ON
MEMORIAL BUILDING
HERE
OVER THE LOG CABIN WHERE ABRAHAM
LINCOLN WAS BORN DESTINED TO
PRESERVE THE UNION AND FREE THE SLAVE
A GRATEFUL PEOPLE HAVE DEDICATED
THIS MEMORIAL TO UNITY PEACE
AND BROTHERHOOD AMONG THE STATES
Wn^H MALIC^E TOWARDS NONE,
WITH CHARITY FOR ALL
I^ET US HAVE FAITH
THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT,
AND IN THAT FAITH LET US TO
THE END DARE TO DO OUR DUTY
Cooper Institute, N. Y. Feb. 27, 1860.
STAND WITH ANYBODY THAT
STANDS RIGHT
STAND WITH HIM WHILE HE
IS RIGHT, AND PART WITH HIM
WHEN HE GOES WRONG
Peoria, 111., Oct. 16, 1854.
THIS MEMORIAL
ERECTED
BY POPULAR SUBSCRIPTION
THROUGH THE
LINCOLN FARM ASSOCIATION
JOSEPH W. FOLK .
PRESIDENT
ROBERT J. COLLIER
VICE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
CLARENCE H. MACKAY
TREASURER
RICHARD LLOYD JONES
SECRETARY
JOHN RUSSELL POPE
ARCHITECT
CORNERSTONE LAID BY
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
FEBRUARY 12, 1909
DEDICATED BY
PRESIDENT TAFT
NOVEMBER 9, 1911
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE
LINCOLN FARM ASSOCIATION
WILLIAM H. TAFF
JOSEPH W. FOLK
HORACE POKTER
CHARLES E. HUGHES
OSCAR S. STRAUS
JOHN A. JOHNSON
ALBERT SHAW
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS
CLARENCE H. MACKAY
NORMAN HAPGOOD
LYMAN J. GAGE
SAMUEL GOMPERS
AUGUST BELMONT
ROBERT J. COLLIER
AUGUSTUS E. WILLSON
HENRY WATTERSON
JENKINS LLOYD JONES
THOMAS HASTINGS
IDA M. TARBELL
CHARLES A. TOWNE
RICHARD Lloyd jones
CARDNIAL GIBBONS
JOSEPH H. CHAOTE
EDWARD M. SHEPHERD
WILLIAM J. BRYAN
CHARLES E. MINER
WILLIAM T. JEROME
AUGUSTUS ST. GAUDBNS
INSCRIPTIONS WITHIN
HE WAS THE NORTH, THE SOUTH, THE EAST, THE WEST.
THE THRALL, THE MASTER, ALL OF US IN ONE;
THERE WAS NO SECTION THAT HE HELD THE BEST;
HIS LOVE SHOWN AS IMPARTIAL AS THE SUN;
AND SO REVENGE APPEALED TO HIM IN VAIN,
HE SMILED AT IT AS AT A THING FORLORN,
AND GENTLY PUT IT FROM HIM, ROSE AND STOOD
A MOMENTS SPACE IN PAIN,
REMEMBERING THE PRARIES AND THE CORN
AND THE GLAD VOICES OF THE FIELD AND WPOD.
MAURICE THOMPSON
THE COLOR OF THE GROUND WAS IN HIM THE RED EARTH
THE SMELL AND SMACK OF ELEMENTAL THINGS:
THE RECTITUDE AND PATIENCE OF THE CLIFF;
THE GOOD WILL OF THE RAIN THAT LOVES ALL LEAVES;
THE FRIENDLY WELCOME OF THE WAYSIDE WELL;
THE COURAGE OF THE BIRD THAT DARES THE SEA;
THE GLADNESS OF THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE CORN;
THE MERCY OF THE SNOW THAT HIDES ALL SCARS;
THE SECRECY OF STREAMS THAT MAKE THEIR WAY
BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN TO THE RIFTED ROCK;
THE UNDELAYING JUSTICE OF THE LIGHT
THAT GLIDES AS FREELY TO THE SHRINKING FLOWER
AS TO THE GREAT OAK FLARING TO THE WIND
TO THE GRAVES LOW HILL AS TO THE MATTERHORN
THAT SHOULDERS OUT THE SKY.
EDWIN MARKHAM
MEMORIAL BUILDING
I WAS BORN FEB. 12, 1809, IN HARDIN COUNTY
KENTUCKY. MY PARENTS WERE BORN IN
VIRGINIA. KY MOTHER WHO DIED IN MY TENTH
YEAR, WAS OF A FAMILY OF THE NAME OF HANKS.
MY FATHER AT THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER WAS
BUT SIX YEARS OF AGE, AND HE GREW UP,
LITTERALLY WITHOUT EDUCATION. HE REMOVED
FROM KENTUCKY TO WHAT IS NOW SPENCER
COUNTY, INDIANA, IN MY EIGHTH YEAR. WE REACHED
OUR NEW HOME ABOUT THE TIME THE STATE
CAME INTO THE UNION. IT WAS A WILD REGION,
WJTH MANY BEARS AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS,
STILL IN THE WOODS. THERE I GREW UP. THERE
WERE SOME SCHOOLS, SO CALLED.
THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO EXCITE
AMBITION FOR EDUCATION. OF COURSE WHEN
I CAME OF AGE I DID NOT KNOW MUCH. STILL,
SOMEHOW, I COULD READ, WRITE, AND CIPHER
TO THE RULE OF THREE, BUT THAT WAS ALL.
THE LITTLE ADVANCE I NOW HAVE UPON THIS
STORE OF EDUCATION, I HAVE PICKED UP FROM
TIME TO TIME, UNDER THE PRESSURE
OF NECESSITY.
A. LINCOLN
THOMAS LINCOLN
January 30, 1770 January 17, 1851
FIFTH IN DESCENT FROM SAMUEL LINCOLN, WEAVER,
WHO LANDED AT HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 26,
1637. ORPHANED AT SIX YEARS OF AGE BY AN INDIAN
BULLET HE GREW UP HOMELESS IN THE WILD WOODS
OF KENTUCKY. AT TWENTY-FIVE HE WAS THE
POSSESSOR OF THIS CABIN HOME AND ITS
NEIGHBORING ACRES. IN 1818 HE MOVED TO INDIANA,
THEN A TERRITORY, FIVE YEARS LATER HE FOLLOWED
THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION TO ILLINOIS, WHERE HE
LIVED A PEACEFUL, INDUSTRIOUS, RESPECTED
CITIZEN, A GENERAL, HONEST AND CONTENTED
PIONEER. WITH COURAGE AND ENERGY HE BUILT
WITH HIS OWN HAND FIVE HOMES, EACH BETTER
THAN THE PRECEEDING ONE, HE WON AND HELD
THE LOVE AND CONFIDENCE OF TWO NOBLE WOMEN
AND HE WAS THE FATHER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
"MY FATHER INSISTED THAT NONE OF HIS CHILDREN
SHOULD SUFFER FOR THE WANT OF EDUCATION AS HE
HAD." ABRAHAM LINCOLN
"HE WAS A GOOD CARPENTER FOR THE TIMES.
HE HAD THE BEST SET OF TOOLS IN WASHINGTON
COUNTY. THE LINCOLNS HAD A COW AND A CALF,
MILK AND BUTTER, A GOOD FEATHER BED— FOR I HAVE
SLEPT ON IT, THEY HAD A HOME-WOVEN 'KIVERLID,'
BIG AND LITTLE POTS, A LOOM AND WHEEL.
TOM LINCOLN WAS A MAN AND TOOK CARE OF HIS
WIFE. REVEREND JESSE HEAD, THE MINISTER
WHO MAFRIED TOM LINCOLN AND NANCY HANKS,
TALKED BOLDLY AGAINST SLAVERY AND TOM AND
NANCY LINCOLN AND SARAH BUSH WERE JUST
STEEPED FULL OF JESSE HEAD'S NOTIONS
ABOUT THE WRONGS OF SLAVERY AND THE RIGHTS
OF MAN AS EXPLAINED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON AND
THOMAS PAINE."
Professor T. C. Graham of Louisville, Kentucky
NANCY HANKS LINCOLN
February 4, 1784 October 5, 1818
BORN IN VIRGINIA; WHEN THREE YEARS OLD
HER PARENTS JOSEPH AND NANCY SHIPLEY
HANKS, CROSSED THE MOUNTAINS INTO
KENTUCKY. ORPHANED AT NINE SHE WAS ADOPTED
AND REARED BY RICHARD AND LUCY SHIPLEY
BERRY, AT WHOSE HOME IN BEECHLAND, WASH-
INGTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SHE WAS MARRIED TO
THOMAS LINCOLN, JUNE 17, 1806. OF THIS UNION
WERE BORN SARAH, ABRAHAM AND THOMAS. THE
FIRST MARRIED AARON GRIGSBY AND DIED IN
INDIANA IN 1828. THE LAST DIED IN INFANCY. THE
SECOND LIVED TO WRITE THE EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION. THE DAYS OF THE DISTAFF, THE
SKILLETT, THE DUTCH OVEN, THE OPEN FIREPLACE
WITH ITS IRON CRANE ARE NO LONGER, BUT
HOMEMAKING IS STILL THE FINEST OF THE FINE
ARTS. NANCY HANKS WAS TOUCHED WITH THE
DIVINE APTITUDES OF THE FIRESIDE. LOVE AND
HONORED FOR HER WIT, GENIALITY AND INTELLIGENCE,
SHE JUSTIFIED AN ANCESTRY REACHING BEYOND
THE SEAS, REPRESENTED BY THE NOTABLE NAMES
OF HANKS, SHIPLEY, BOONE, EVANS AND MORRIS. TO HER
WAS ENTRUSTED THE TASK OF TRAINING A GIANT, IN
WHOSE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES SHE WAS HALLOWED.
OF HER HE SAID, "MY EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS OF MY
MOTHER IS SITTING AT HER FEET WITH MY SISTER DRINK-
ING IN THE TALES AND LEGENDS THAT WERE READ AND
RELATED TO US." TO HIM ON HER DEATH BED SHE
SAID: 'I AM GOING AWAY FROM YOU ABRAHAM, AND
I SHALL NOT RETURN. I KNOW YOU WILL BE A GOOD BOY,
THAT YOU WILL BE KIND TO SARAH AND YOUR FATHER.
I WANT YOU TO LIVE AS I HAVE TAUGHT YOU TO AND TO
LOVE YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.' ''ALL THAT I AM OR
HOPE TO BE I OWE TO MY DARLING MOTHER."
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