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I i 1 LI LI L- L I t r i I C yam a ba t tR I II R x 9 i I ra 1 c. c 4 1 t I Lincoln II h BuShi j 4 y I r 14 t tI I I 1 tw Ill Ill-i t A C J JI JI I Ii I I 1 1 I Ii It i Ij i j i 1 j t Maw Ball r rl I f ashen tan o FC M the o ot t t ter e o W a h t o 9 S 'S Z tJ-t tJ J I I i I Lincoln Monument I J y j 4 AY 11 of ot this year Is Is' Mo Mothers Mother's hers her's day a aday aday I 1 day for honoring our D mothers not I only those who are h here re to receive i I- I our love loye but also those who are no I t longer with us It IL Is also a n day for tor torI I j paying tribute to o those mothers of of r f I i the past who gave to a na nation ion Its I I great men In virtually every case the fame of ot their sons has so far 1 transcended their own that they are aret I t I j I but little known even eyen though those I j sons have haye been the first to acknowledge I h edge their Indebtedness ness to t their eIt r 1 mothers for whatever elements of ot greatness they th themselves possesse possessed Su Such h was the fhe ca case e with the first great Ameri Amer- American j 1 can Geor George e. e Washington and his mother Mary Ball Washington In an nn a address dress to the Worshipful Wor- Wor Mayor Maior and Commonalty of ot the Corpora Corpora- To r 1 lion of rg In 1700 1760 he thanked them themI I for the honorable mention mention which Is made mude of my revered m mother ther by whose maternal hand early deprived of ot a Father I 1 was led to manhood When she died In 1789 1780 and congress passed reso resolutions reso of sympathy his reply contained this tribute trib trib- I ute rte to her I attribute all of my success in hn life lite to the moral Intellectual an and physical education I which I received from my moth mother cr I F Eyen though that statement I Is closely akin to toj toi 1 j i Lincoln's famous tribute to his mother God bless my mother A All l that J I am am or hope to be I owe to her It Is doubtful If It there w was s the warmth of ot feeling In Washington's words that I 1 there were In Li For the truth of the matter Is that there was never the close mother mother- son and attachment t between en G George orge Washington and Mary Ball Washington n t that at there there was bei between between be be- i tween Abraham Lincoln n and Nancy i y Hanks Lincoln Lin coIn coln or even bet between een t the 1 Great lt Emancipator and I his stepmother ther S Sarah ral Bush Johnston Lincoln i. i Left motherless ss at Urn tire age of of thirteen Mary MaryI I Ball was married t to Augustine Augustine W Washington at i. i t. t two twenty-two and gave the name flame of ot George to her I r I first born In la honor of ot her lieI guardian and girlhood benefactor Maj George Eskridge That she was wasa j I a stern parent seems to be the unanimous verdict verI verdict ver ver- dict of all of ot the early Washington biographers Of h her r Lawrence Washington of once said I was often there with George his George his playmate playmate playmate play play- mate schoolmate and young mans man's companion Of the mother I 1 was I-was was ten times more afraid than 1 J II ever was of ot my own parents She awed me Inthe In Inthe the midst of her kindness for she was WIlS indeed truly kind I ha have hae e often orten been been p present resent with herc her c a Bone BOn proper tall fellows too and we were all as mute as mice and even now when time has r whitened my locks and I am the grandparent ofa of ot ofa a second generation I 1 could not behold that reI remarkable re re- woman without feelings It is Impossible 1 I I ble to describe Whoever has hils seen that awe In t air and manner so chala characteristic In the Father of ot His Coup Country try will remember r the matron matron ma ma- tron Iron as she appeared when tile the presiding ing genius of her w well ordered household commanding and being obeyed Because s she was a stern parent It has hns pleased some mome biographers of Washington to paint her as asa as asa asa a Spartan mother But this role did not Include sending ending him forth to war with the classical injunction about returning home with your shield or upon It for we have ha the evidence of George Washington Parke Custis that she site had two great fears tears one of war and the other of lightning and i the tile evidence of contemporary documents that sheI she I persistently discouraged Washington In his milt mill tary ambitions Much of the latter has ms tie been en brought to light by a modern biographer Rupert L Hughes whose honest effort to learn and present the whole truth about Washington has brought down upon him so many man y accusations of ot being a deliberate Idol since the first volume of his life Ufe of ot Washington was published b by William I Morrow and corn company Pony four years ears ago agog In that volume he says of Mary Ball Dall Washing Washing- ton tan While she has been the victim of almost as as' much del deification catlon as s George she George she has been set next to the mother of she Christ Christ she seems to have have been a a a terrifyingly strict mother and not to have shared Georges George's ideals of rebellion Few women have ever eYer had such rhetoric of ot a adulation 1 heaped upon them and Washington Is s quoted as saying that he owed all aU he lie was to his mother But Dut it Is a cruel truth that she was chiefly y re- re I as a very human can cantankerous old lady Indy who vho from ro being b a fond taskmaster In her early carly motherhood evolved Into a n trial for everybody I J S' S p IR W Ci pI Wf e p r 9 Ij i h 0 I w r i. i VA t r. r 1 f 1 l j i W Ir i. i 1 f q b u tJ j cia n I cv t tb j b 4 ot u tJ LF UJ U t i 11 s i j rI a alE lE D ft a J tt 5 T rL Tl l I c r x f i. i 1111 I. I I i. i i. i w f v IL w 9 JN i ir I 11 r T FI t fIlL r r lj j c tri Jt pO 1 i r f j 1 fro ai ui Ml lit It lt I t z t. t 21 i l W jOi d p. p I CV J. J J JUr r i i f J I l U UA If i XI hh I ji 3 y v It t II I i iS S i lt J 6 J 1 i t SA J y Z t if C ff f 1 f. f t pJ i l u Mother Town Tablet aHLet g J t y These al' al are aie the abundantly ly supported facts and th there re Is no excuse for fOl- the m maudlin perversion m lon of ot ottile the tile truth yet th the picturesque e little old woman I struggling with unusual hardships and nd her er oYD own traits should have e all the sympathy in the world worM It cannot he comfortable t to to be the moth mother r of ot an arch rebel J. J In a a volume he says sas of her She was a difficult ro mother ther though he he was as a devoted son sori Mar Marys Mary's s name aPPe appears rs Incessantly In Washington's Washington's Wash Wash- ington's account books hooks and diaries He took good care care of her business for tor her visited her with filial OHal regularity an and paid her profound respect respects s saying sing at the last I a attribute bute all allor of my suc success ess In life lite to the moral Intellectual and ph physical education education education edu edu- cation which I received from my mother II So even though we cannot think of Was Washington's mother as an outstanding example of the warm gentle mother-love mother which we associate with thel the l Idea ea back of Mothers Mother's day surely the r result sult o of the moral Intellectual and lind phy physical education whIch which she contributed contribute to the making of ot th the great character that was the Father of His Country should be enough to Insure for Cor Mary Ball Dall WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington the lasting gratitude of this nation While there do not exist and probably never have any such contemporary records as In the he case of Wn Washington and n his mother to show the closeness of the bond between Nancy Hanks Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coin and the son that was vas born to her on February February ary 12 1809 30 yet there Is a wealth of tradition reliable enough to warrant Its acceptance about the tho tender and deep love that was theirs One of the leading Lincoln sch scholars lars Dr William E. E Barton Bar Barton Bar niu- ton has aptly called her a backwoods madonna and In his book The Women Lincoln Loved published b by T the Merrill company he be presents pre seats those these glimpses of ot mother and son Sou Southern hern Indiana was vas then a wild region and ond the settlements hack back of ot the Ohio river were few v and sparse There were were at first no regular church services no physicians no no schools Perhaps Thomas Lincoln did not regret the absence of schools so much as ns Nancy dl did There Is no reason renson to bell believe eve that he opposed such education as his children children children chil chil- dren were aide able to secure but apparently the mother was more Intent on the of an education for her children than was the father Abraham Lincoln was old oid enough now to look with more possibility of appreciation on this mother of f his and to estimate s at ather her qualities She was now approaching the I age of ot thirty fhe She was was' above e medium medium- height and had a slight stoop as though predisposed predisposed predisposed pre pre- disposed t to consumption She weighed about a hundred and ond thirty pounds Her complexion was as dark and nd her fare face us thin and sallow Her forehead was unusually high hl h and all nil her relatives commented on this feature of of- her appearance as as' belon belonging to and anel exhibiting her Intellectual nature She was as u usually u lly cheerful l but her face In repose repos was sad At times she displayed a a marked tendency to mirth but sh she ba had moods of ot melancholy Abraham had a boys boy's limitation of ot judgment Judg judg- ment meat perhaps perhaps- he did ld not appreciate these qu qualities so fully In his youth as he did later luter but we have no r reason to suppose that he was wholly holly v blind to them She was wass a good mother to him and he knew it She was ambitious for him un and desired that he should have the opportunities which both she and and her husband hus bus band had missed He lie loved his mother while she lived an and he loved her memory afterward It was was' wasn a n pathetic pa pa- memory and had in It elements clements concerning con con- which he was properly reticent but as to his inheritance through her of af the tIle qualities which he deemed to be some of ot the best within him he spoke with deep feeling God bless my mother All An that I am ain or hope t to be I owe to her Although In In this utterance utterance utterance utter utter- ance her son spoke of the m mental traits he tho thought himself to have lIh inherited from her rather than her direct influence over him lm It was of ot her mind and character he sp spoke ke when lie he sa said that however unpromising her earl early surroundings l gs might have bee been she was highly Intellectual by nature h had a n strong me memory or acc accurate rate judgment nn and was c cool ol oland and heroic If Abraham Lincoln received from his his' mother r a a a rich heritage e of of t qualities es which contributed d to to- to h his s greatness that greatness greatness also also owes much to another woman who bore the name of ot Lincoln She was Sarah 1 Bush Johnston Johnst m widow of a Daniel Daniel Dan iel leI Johnston a n Kentucky pioneer whom Thomas Lincoln mar married i In 1819 Already the mother of three children marriage marriage- m rid added ed to her responsibilities that of the rearing of Tom Lincoln's moth motherless son and imd daughter Of Ot her Barton writes Sally Bush was as not sl slow w to discover In her Er new son son qualities which were not pr present sent I Ithe inthe In Inthe the son son who was as of of her own flesh and blood With n no no vord word of disparagement of her own boy boS' she never never ver failed tailed to praise an and encourage encourage age Abraham The time had had come when Thomas Lincoln and Iris son did not understand understand understand under under- stand each other ther any too well The boy had shot up marvelously mar In stature and the changes of adolescence wrought In him unaccountable unaccountable unaccountable unac unac- countable transformations He became dreamy and antl at times unsociable There were within him the stirrings of strange ambitions which did not please his father tather Thomas Lincoln non now and then ihen became angry at his boys boy's perverseness In this situation tion the mother often understands understands under under- stands the boy when the father does not This This' fact tact Is the basis of much SJ silly T sentimentality and has become the occasion of a most unjust unjust unjust un un- un- un just disparagement nt of fatherhood and a flabby flabby flab flab- by and hypocritical half adulation of motherhood mother mother- hood hOd n But Jt the experience of ot th the Lincoln household is not unique mes BlesSed ed Is the boy wh who at such a n time has hns a n. mother who un understands understands under under- ers er- er s stands ands him and Is able to express a s sympathy which the father perhaps does not lm know w how to define or perhaps ps even en to think necessary Such s sympathy Ahi Abraham Lincoln found In his new mother She encouraged his ills reading and persuaded Thomas Lincoln to look upon it with favor Sally Lincoln saw this rawboned raw rawboned raw raw- boned lad had outstrip her own son and was not jealous b but t encouraged 1 Abraham to perse perse- vere v So far as ns we have any data to servas serve as the basis of correct Judgment her influence Influence ence on him was wholly g goodYear goodYear good god od Year In and year ou out through the theIon Ion l period of his late Inte boyhood and young oung marl marl- hood Abraham Lincoln saw and admired and loved this handsome curl curly hatred new mother moth moth- er of his nn and he be carried carrle Into life Ufe a n finer Ideal of womanhood for what he discovered In lri her Jer But great greatt us ris was the contribution of these two pioneer mothers who bore tl n the e name of Lincoln to the building of ot the nation they were there by no means the only ones of ot their t type pe who had c n a hand in that that In n a little park In the city of Harrodsburg Bar Har K Icy Ky stands a massive granite boul boulder er upon which Is a n bronze tablet b bearing th these se words s Ere Erected te by the yoman's Club of t Bar Bar- rods honoring the Mother Town lown of Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky fo founded Juno June W. W 1774 and remembering the e First Mothers of or the West to enter the wilderness wll wil Mrs Daniel Bo Hoone Bonne me Mrs Richard Hogan Mrs Hugh i gh l Mrs Mis Thomas Denton A tribute tribute trib- trib ute from womanhood of ot the this present to woman hood of the pIA past st st. June tG 1926 The he erecting of monuments to the pioneer mother mottier has become a n frequent occurrence l In n recent recent re re- re- re cent years eats in many parts of the country Some of them are great statues which show what manner manner man man- ner of women were these who pushed the frontier tron- tron fron fron- tier ever westward But Dut there are arc those who vho sa say that that no more appropriate monument to the plo pio ne neer r mother was ever ewer erected than that which stands stands' In Its Harrodsburg Its severe simplicity tell teU- Ing lug of ot the 8 simplicity of their lives its rury rugge rugg bg eel l granite and en enduring bronze bespeaking those thos those qualities which only the wives of a race of wH wll breakers break breakers rs and the moth mothers rs' rs of ot a race of d bul nation builders deI have |