| Show TI1HEE AKltAHlM IIXCOIAS ALL CCT OOWX SODDK Lr ira INDIAN ASSASSIN ANU ICnGm 1 The sad fate of the great Emancipator I Eman-cipator halloaed tile name of rio coin The recent death of little Ab in London has called r new cd attention t the great President l Presi-dent his amicteters inn descendants Populir know ledge of ties family covers abrut two centuries During Dur-ing that time alternate generation have roductd hires Abraham Lln endue all of whom have died under circumstances that lno riveted curls um them the attention of Amen Cn cinsThe years 17S5 ISO and ISO are memorable in Lincoln chronology for in those years the grindfatherif the President PrtMdcut Llntoln liimielfanl his grandon fell two by tire hands of assassin and the third by the hand of the surgeon no less fell though better intcu Stoned The facts of the death of the Presidents grandfather meaner Descended from the good old Quaker Quak-er stock of Perns Ivaula l and II Feshed of moderate meins he wn one of the first to leave his home in I Itocklngham County Virginia iu glr J I 17SO to follow Uie lead Daniel I Hone into the wilds of Kentucky I taking with him hh wife and five children Pixpared to bret bre-t and hardshi < 8 for a home I Abraham Lincoln bought too acres of land fronithegoveinmentfor CO t f3 A spot in the forest was cleared I a I log cabin was erected nnd son Lincoln found liiniself on the way I t prosperity The three sons I Montreal Josiah nnd Thoma who lartook of the fathers ambition I lielj tl him wllli a will The little farm in the wilderness broadened and two additional tracts of land one of 600 and the other of SCO acre eretaken But fortune soon changed One morning in 1755 Lincoln and his three sons went out t the edge of tire clearing and scarcely had work begun when a shot from the bush tilled thu father Mordecat immediately Imme-diately ran to the cabin for a gun amid Josiah t1 Hughes ll station for assistance while homos was left with his fathern body Mordecat jot the gun and wa just in time to save his brothers life by shooting ho Indian who was about t kill him ThmurJeml man was burled near where he fell and nam after the family for better protection moved to a thlcUer cttled portion of the wilderness where MonJecul with the settled bal that is born of unforglven wrongs became an In lianstalker who slew the redskins on no other provocation than mere tent Two generations Inter Ibo second Abraham Lincoln was exalted from the roition ol an obscure lawyer t that of President uf the United Statesan honor which lie bore f with courage and fortitude and laid or with his life AH are familiar with the story of Ills assassination Another break of a generation in the transmission of names and the bird Abraham appeared In the fondly a the apf Robert T Lincoln the American minister to England Young J k t Jack a he was usually called was born In Chicago In 1873 and the story of his I years is tliat of many another bright lay who hn been stricken down before the petal 1 bullies in him have been developed The promise t > t the future was cut ofr by the surgeons knife while undergoIng an operation for an ab scws The operation is not usually Ire a dangerous hut I i proved weakness fatal In tills case from the boys Jack was a boy grave nnd de liberate beyond his years an un itually good scliol ir and universal favorite among his oseociales Chicago Chi-cago etc j |
