Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an incredible man and president.   He got rid of slavery in the United States and was with us during the Civil War.   If it weren't for Lincoln, slavery could very possibly still be around.   The 16th president of the United States of America accomplished many things in his life.
On the morning of Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a cabin on Nolin Creek, Kentucky, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, wife of Thomas Lincoln, gave birth to a boy on a bed of poles covered with corn husks.   The newborn baby was named Abraham after his grandfather.   Abraham's father was an uneducated carpenter and also a farmer.   His mother had no schooling and could not write.
In the year of 1811,   the Lincoln family moved to a farm on Knob Creek near Hodgenville Kentucky.   Soon after they moved, Abraham's younger brother, Thomas, passed away in infancy.
Abraham spent short amounts of time in a log schoolhouse in 1815.   Here he started to learn his ABC's.   Abraham attended school with his older sister, Sarah.   Sarah had gray eyes, dark hair, and was two years older than Abraham.   Abraham went to school dressed in buckskin clothes, a raccoon cap, and very short pants.   Abraham and Sarah's teacher was named Zachariah Riney.   When at home, Abraham listened to the Scriptures read from the family bible.
In 1816, Abraham was saved from drowning by one of his playmates named
Austin Gollaher.   Abraham and Sarah briefly went to school taught by a neighbor named Caleb Hazel.   Later that year, the Lincolns moved to Indiana and constructed a cabin near Little Pigeon Creek.   The cabin measured Sixteen by Eighteen feet and had only one window.
1818 was a tragic year.   Abraham's mother, Nancy, died on October 5th.   Nancy died of a disease called "Milk Sickness" which was contracted by drinking milk from cows that have grazed on poisonous white snakeroot.   Abraham would help by carving pegs for his mother's coffin.   Thomas Lincoln took the coffin made of green pine to the...