| Show Rough Trail r Q of Pioneers Pioneer h I s to History Tom Lincoln was looking for a worn worn- In to Ira el through life with for bet bet- tr tf or worse He visited at the place f Christopher pher stopher Bush hard woi a hard working king Ind parent who came from German erman parents parent had raised a of son with b tI tte I Also al th there r were ere two daughters with le e and with shining faces and anda a 1 I 4 i M- M 1 1 c rN I rHE SOY t-t t ED r rj Arad j II f eyes Tom Tuu 1111 passed Ja tJ b abash and gaVe his he bell t jutes jukes tit IU Loth h t Hh orah But It u that lush Bush fur or a n wanted ranted Daniel lintel Johnson An another husband and I lIe i e w- w wanted wied her t l tu a a I 4 loins s eyes ejes fell un on brunette t n JI-n a ks be b sometimes culled called an ant c I lause use sl Sue she e was a u daughter aughter ut 7 hanks and 1 sometimes called y I. I v I rr 1 d l W because she was was an II I 1 lh daug daughter biter ler of Thomas and un 1 Darrow family Sparrow row and lived with the rite j i I ulY lank s had tai lit welcomed her lur child Y tad id had Into I l life fe In ln Virginia g In i n 1781 1 ele tta n Jin- Jin the e Wilderness rou road d W h i ha s at Was to h hera her r u a precious e eth a to hinh o h Cumberland gap bap Into i f y t i iI I Sad With Sorrows T To I i f b bt ir r Nan fan had s St se on n u this Pa Icu Jilt r f r there were sever several I ency i t In JI and alley bees cs In Hat din COUll i k Iud and null eed Ced she was shrewd and nil tn tl Igne une U r d aul arl a dark rk 1 fIts fIts' br brown hair keen little Brn gra gray to O fOle anding forehead somewhat t I J shin M t of ai UIa d cheek cheekbones bones i f slop Boiler I der ones body hody i Ika v n bUild U weighing about 13 u Pe the outward of f ne kry an and ad n W Woman tul carr carrying vying something n t lit cherished life ife o along her ways way She I like ke e dark rk Wa wae wass sad with sorrows sorrow t tle rhe da LEtar stars In n blue mist day y eim time Ame when Thomas Lin- Lin coIn coln signed a n bond with his friend Richard Berry In the courthouse at atS S Springfield in Washington county 0 over er near where his hits brother Mordecai Mordecal was farming and the tle bond gave ga notice notice no no- tice ice There is a marriage shortly intended intended in in- tended between Thomas Lincoln and Nancy flanks s It was June 10 1800 Two da days s 's later at lUc Richard ard Berrys Berry's place Beechland a man twenty eight years ears ol old and a woman twenty three years ears old came before Rev ne Jesse Head who ho later gave Oe the county clerk the names of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks flanks s as having been joined together in the holy estate of matrimony matri main mony many agreeable to the rules of the Methodist Episcopal church C Carried Off His Er ErThe Bride Brice ide The new husband put his June bride briden rode away uway on and they on on n his horse the red clay road rond along the timber Their new trails to Elizabeth Elizabethtown town the court court- home was in a n cabin close to house Tom worked at the carpenter S Strade trade made cabinets door dour frames window window win woo woodow dow sash and A daughter wa was war named her Sarah horn born and they saw the tile Lh Lincoln Lincoln- color The same saute year ear moved to a place on the the- Big lg South Southfork fork fOlk of Nolin's creek about two and anda a half miles h from frow They t of piece were wele tr trying ing g to farm furm a little home twine The house houst housti ground and make e a b of If logs cut CUI cabin rhey i lived in was a 11 from frum the timber near by m February Fe of thin thU in morning Jl One Lincoln carne came out of f Tom rout 1509 year ed a neigh the road stopped his cabin ca to llor and asked him to tell the granny hur hor Walters that Peggy woman Aunt need help f. f soon on would Nancy a Lincoln's Birth February 1 12 u of On the morning was there the granny Im I'm woman Sunday LIn and Tom om she And AlII cabin lit alt the hunks s the mo and coIn of battle un anti J Into a 11 world welcomed dreams un and wistful blood of child a buyA boy buy new ful nil dust a morning Tom Turn Lintt Lin little later IJler that l A till the extra tt od on coin threw V some bearskin over er tl the aud an extra ih and cabin the went out Of ande mother the he road to a where l tel e emiles walked two miles up lived and Betsy rom loin the p lorowS' tVs year buy s the net met i lorn out ai at atthe althe n adopted U tc l by b the sparrow the ilic door of or In he he m. m was wasa ra rain in his Ms slow way tray WO Tom rom a s v sO ov and d quiet buy baby hahr S got n a Nancy told them thew In hIs e eyes es look was us A t babies babos w were rc no not nul maybe more mOle usA us as though just then wanted in Kentucky too tool took u to his I Hanks lai Us bo boy Dennis The llie to the Lincoln road roa down the on ona Nancy Nanc Ilan Ilana ks cabin There T lie he saW of her ner to U Ce a bed bed of poles the cabin under a large warm bear bear- skin She turned her dark head bead from looking at the baby to look at Dennis Denni and threw him a 0 tired white smile from her mouth and gray eyes He I stood by the bed led has eyes wide open I watching the even quiet breaths of I this fresh soft red baby What you jou goin to name him I Nancy the boy hoy asked Abraham was the answer after his grandfather Little Dennis Dennis' Prediction Little Dennis Denns rolled up In a b bearskin and slept by the fireplace that night lie He listened for the crying of the newborn new newS born child once one In the night and the feet of the father moving mo on the dirt floor to help the mother and the little one In the morning he took a long Ions look at the baby and said to himself Its skin looks Just like red cherry pulp squeezed dry In wrinkles And Dennis swung the baby back and forth keeping leeping up a chatter about how tickled he was to have ha a new cousin to play with The baby screwed up the muscles of its face and began crying with ith no let letup Dennis turned ned to Betsy Sparrow handed her hH the baby anti and said to her hel Aunt take him Hell He'll never ue cometo come to much So came ame the birth of ot Abraham Lin Lincoln I In- In coin coln that twelfth day of February in inthe inthe and pain the year ar 1809 in 1809 In silence from a n wll wilderness erness mother on a bed of ot corn husks hll ks and bearskins with with an no anbe nobe tc lr t vE o NANCY I S Lt early Laughing child prophecy be he would never come to much And though he was horn born In a house and one window with only one door written he would come to know was It windows he would doors many many riddles and doors and vin read many Abraham Lincoln tho thod From d dows by Carl Sandburg Pt prairie Years y J |
