Show anew IL I 1 C P co memorial log IL P pa tv 7 A k ag hill 41 9 t n X ar mr T by ELMO SCOTT WATSON jn the tha union and somo thirty cities have lincoln memorials of ono one sort cort or an 0 ther othor kentucky which w h I 1 c h gave him birth has on one ol of iho ho most imposing t h e magnificent temple at valle e where to ta e en n shrines the rude toe cabin in which lie he was born bora on february 12 1809 1111 illinois n off wt which let first sent him into public C life and gave him to the nation as its ta Preal president dent at one of tho the most crit leal ical periods period la in its history lil story has bets a score or more reminders of his greatness not but it itts la a curious fact that the state in which he be lived during fourteen fou wen ot of the formative years of his life for a long thue did not have a single roe me erected tn in honor of abraham lincoln that state stata Is indiana Im JIann to which ho he came caine at the th ago age of seven it was tn in I 1 indiana that lie got most of his little schooling it wits wag there that lio lie earned hla his first dollar it was waa there that he first am met with tho the neighboring youth in n a country crossroads cross crosa roads store first read the newspapers and got in touch with the outside world first tee began to discuss politics first took part in public debates and first rend read law the toll soil of the hoosier state was particularly Vart leU dear to ta him atin because it holds the body of tho the mother who boro bore him and that of hla his only sister elster who was married lived and died there the only exception to the statement that indiana was strangely laggard I 1 in a hono honoring ring a man whom slie she could p properly r OP claim as 03 one of her greatest grea test sons Is the tact fact that more than fifty years teo azo after vandal hands had cut to pieces the first marker erected by citi tens ens in spencer county over the tha grave of nancy hanks flanks lincoln another and imposing marker was erected thero there by clement studebaker Stude baler ot of south bend end so it Is especially appropriate tl that lat hla his daughter mrs anno anne studebaker carlisle should be ba clr president nl of the tha indiana lincoln upton union which ch to ta now engaged tn in the work ot of raising a fund of more thin than a million dollars to erect on indiana soil eol a national ool shrine to commemorate th the lives of lincoln and his mother three years ago on oh biotti ces day d ay tile the executive committe dof the union held memorial menn ortal services at th the a gra grave ve of nancy kancy flanks lincoln and pled pledged ged itself to the patriotic task on that occasion ari an aviator booming low over ther ravo and cabin site dropped this message TO TAIE mid HANKS LINCOLN the men and women ol of today are air bar b aside your grave g rave among the th guarding trees freob to make mak th pietr 0 ir vow your yaw narno S hall no var die dia and to their praise praia add our t trl but from the th sky we WB ara the artificers artifice art lAcer rs ot of tho the past pait who handicraft lift its gained er Alneil the tha praise pral of men with ton stan anaclay aej dart with brush and pen we wrought to leave leav expressions of the truth we TV found but youton you you dared to take A living child a plastic infant mind to mold to a ld nto into a toul ut of love loaf an instrument divine a your coelus Us cuned 8 d an art that ours oura was waa mian be cleft to you rou then matr mas artists artist we send enil our word ot at pr pralo also through paths that masked the th way T you ou led with kindly hand 9 A child int into the tha light of truth and made mad an honest est m man an the ne marial will include tile ap of where tho the lincoln cabin stood and t the he grave where hla his mollier ties lies burtch it la Is intended that it shall in all re typify the pioneer adny when klinkn was a youth the plans of frederick Frederic tt law ol 01 anstead ln stead landscape of brookline moss mass which have been adopted include the ot of the area with appropriate prop pro poste markers ak a magnificent memorial hull hall and the pioneer tit aquio MCI laphere of nativa trees tives find th rubbery cry with a I 1 body ot of water atar and a ri earin V the propos proposed ed a tal III link the three I 1 of jaja t IW 1 H V fk 1411 11 Z Z 7 dlana and illinois in the perpetuation 0 of f Lincol ns life and labors preparatory to his great destiny it also honors the memory ot of the pioneer mother alio gave litra him to the world the story of that pioneer mother Is 1 one ot of the most appealing in all amerlean history A backwoods madonna dr william 13 11 barton calls her a and ild in hla his book the women lincoln loved published by an indiana publishing company liobis merrill ot of la in dlana polls he gives this graphic word picture of her life and tier her death in tile tho state to which Is given the llego of 0 caring for her grave brave southern indiana was wag then ft a wild reelon realon and the settlements back back of of I 1 tha h a oh ohio 10 river rl v or were wera few ow and sparse there were wera at first no regular church no physicians no so boole perhaps thomas lincoln did not regret tho absence ot at schools so 0 o much as nancy did there la Is no reason to believe that he be opposed uch such education du c a as an lila his children wr were able to secure but apparently the mother w was a a more intent on the of a an education edon on tor for her abt children aron than was WAN the th father abraham and sarah had bad attended school portions portion of two terms term in kentucky they b had a d learn learned ad I 1 to 0 spell and had begun to read but there her a were no sch schools 0 in their neighborhood d in In indians dlana d nancys lifetime it abraham and sarah learned anything more anor thy they learned it from nancy or irom from den annl into hanks whom the sparrow we had sent nt to school in the old ban tint house on bolln and who latmer lat med with kome apparent reason to have hat grounded abraham lincoln in the elements omenta el of hla his a education d uca tion there war were ver very few books in the homent thomas lin lincoln cola and nancy blanka and the same condition prevailed ted in all at other bar homes in the neighborhood tor for two years nancy hanks flanks lincoln dwelt in indiana and saw new some approach pro a c ta to comfort in the conditions of her home gradually the cleared area of land and around the cabin widened and the acreage of corn increased the took stock of poultry and of bacon brew and tin 04 pinching times while not pushed far back into the woods were not at the door as a they were at the beginning conditions appeared to promise a reasonably comfortable future for the amaly abraham lincoln was wa old an enouch ough now to look with war mor possibility of appreciation on trill this mat mother h or of hl and ana to estimate her qualities she eh was wa now approaching the ago age of thirty live five she sh was waa above bedlum height and ana had bad a slight silent stoop as an though chouch predisposed to consumption she bh weighed about ft a hundred and thir ty iter complexion was waa dark and hr her tac face was thin and allow iter her forehead was waa unusually high and all her bar relatives comment eil on this feature of her appearance as an balo nginr to and ana exhibiting her hep intellectual nature she sh was manhy cheerful but her fact in repose wait sad at times almea she aha ill 11 played a markel tendency to mirth but she ha had bad moods of melancholy abraham had bad a boys limitation ot of judgment perhaps he did not ap appreciate these qualities so 0 o fully tn in his youth as an he did liter later but we hava hav a no reason to suppose that he wom WM wholly blind to she WM was a L rood mother to a hire and tr be knew it tl she W was adibi alou tor for III him in and desired that hi he should hould aa have the unities which both the ehe and her bar had the th autumn of 1918 to southern 0 ra indiana a terrible nees affelot ins both rian man and beast the th cattle were oral to suffer lufter from roin it contract ina the disease from eating alln the foliage of snakeroot snake root and as it we was found to have been their milk that carried the illness to their hunn owners ower it was called the milk A number ot at the tn in the tha the livel contracted the th disease and died lievi levi and nancy hall died and to 0 o did thomas and betsy sparrow two uncles and aunts ore OR couple belne her famter parents pa rants were swept away as a with a flood then nancy mancy herself contracted the disease ther them t wan waa no phyl clan an within Ss vilua Ilos wo Y have the tha testimony time n Y of a neighbor who was an eya ey alt aes ues 1 that abraham and his sister ister were I 1 1 I 1 1 ul 1 to in waltena walt lna ni on an their mother other ta fa I and 6 dolne 0 ang what blat they could tor for he her r she bli a juggled on fays this calir ix bor bar a good Chri christian allan woman and di billed ad T on the seventh day after she he was tak en an nick alck the mother know that sh she was bolner to dla dio she was very weak and the children loaned leaned over her while she ah gava her last messages placing her feeble hanx hanl on abes abe head she aha to him to be kind and rood to his tathy and sister to both she alie said cold do da cooc to one another expressing a hope hop ahm th they s Y might live ss lie they had been I 1 taught a u gh t inight by her to love their kindred and worship gobi god thus at the age ot at thirty five on an october 5 1818 1918 died th ahta I 1 madonna of the backwoods back wooda the the mother of abraham lincoln doctor barton then tells how abraham d his fat father herja lo 10 sawing out tho the planks from which he made the collin coffin how they burled her on the hill bill beside tier her foster parents and how no funeral sermon was preached over her grave until months later when itea david lukins came that way and conducted services first there thera was an opening hymn with david elkins allu lining out two lines at a time then a simple and heartfelt heart felt eulogy of the dead and a stern stem admonition to the living and finally a closing hymn bym w with ith it rose tho the courage and faith of those who sang then came cam the word of blessing blet alne and thorna thomas lincoln took the hands handa of his bla two weeping children and led th thin am back to him desolate home the feet of millions million ot of pilgrims have walked and will walk that path they will tand stand within the th temple th that I 1 now en shrines the th log ion walls walla within which at the th maternal p pain in of 0 nancy lbanks save to tb the world ha her or son con abraham and they will tread re ro vently through the leafy stale aisle of 0 the state park at Gentry gentryville ville where a massive granite tone now marks marka tin the spot pot which abraham lincoln in hit his boyhood watered with his hi tears ile II 11 loved hla his mother while she aho lived and he loved her memory afterward att arward it win was a pathetic path etlo memory omary ra and had in it elements tle menta concerning which he h was waa properly pio perly reticent but as to hla his inheritance through thi ouch her of tho the qualities which he ha deemed to ie be some of the tt best within him he ha spoke polca with deep fooling eel ln god clod bless my mother all that I 1 am or hope to be I 1 owe to her although in this u utterance torance t he her r son on spoke cf at the mental trails he hought guht him vf elf to have hav inherited from her rather r than her direct influence over him it was wa ot of her wind mind and character he spoke when tia be nail that however unpromising her bar early arly surrounding might bay been she h was highly in toll actual by nature had a strong til one memory a curate judgment dement Ju an and d was cool ana and heroic to him an ae be b looked back upon it train from the standpoint of later expert once it teamed her life lit had ben a tragedy but we are arai not sure ura that she he so BO retarded regarded it she sha bad tied ad experience peri ence and times of at depression but she he had lived and learned and loved she sha had known the joys ot of wifehood and motherhood she sh a had h ad never euf a u f fared hunter ar neglect always there were those thoe who cared for or her and for or whom ho cared tb 1 her it may not have hav seemed that liars her had bad been a mad ad lire life and h left that which pervia perma bright tried ibb life ot of humanity chouch tt tb world has abrahm abraham lincoln na as one ot of the greatest men who ever lived they were simple people this mother nud and this son BOD so tile tho simplicity tot of hla his character la Is stress aseA edL by the architect thomas dibbon ot 0 indianapolis in his boalen for the main building of the proposed lincoln memorial |