Show FIT it MITI F 14 tal I 1 M R E ll 11 WITH no EAM ua ah N february 12 of every year the mind of every american Ameri caa loyal citizen Is momentarily turned to the thought that upon that day just so BO many years ago abraham lincoln one or of the worlds worldon greatest men was born some merely give tile the celebration 9 a thought but those who have made the life of abraham lincoln a study and those people who live in kentucky indiana and illinois look upon the birthday anniversary niver sary as something more than the mere passing of a milestone each of these states claims a right to being the home of the man who has made tor for himself an immortal name in the history of tile the worlds greatest men historians say that lincoln wat was born in hardin county kentucky in tact fact he was born in la rue county which however Is a subdivision of hardin county chroniclers continue walh he t together or et h r his father mother and a sister went to indiana and entered a claim to a piece of land in spencer county As a matter of fact lie he entered a claim to a piece of land in warrick county but which has been set aside and named spencer county the Lincol ns went to indiana in 1816 the same year that indiana was admitted to the union as a tate state ho he entered a quarter section of land built a log cabin and lived enere until 1830 it was known that thomas lincoln father of Abra abraham hani lincoln was in poor circumstances to say that abraham lincoln was the son of a poor carpenter and farmer gives an insight into hard bard conditions that little abe had bad to face when he was a youngster when he went to indiana he be was just beven and remaining in indiana until 1830 he spent 14 years of his life la indiana or br until he be was 21 years of age abraham Lincol ns 16 years of df life in indiana he had read and reread this list of literary and historic J cal books over cover and over again his good nature among lincoln city people was not unnoticed all agreed to his bla honesty and good nature questions ot of dispute and petty differences wore were at first submitted to him in a joking way and later on in a sincere way until he was complimented for his honest and just way in settling disputes and differences lie he was told more times than once that some day he would turn out to he be it a lawyer having read all the literary books and what few there were of law in and around Bo onville lincoln heard of the court at Bo onville lie he resolved to go down to that place 20 miles distant and team learn what lie ho could in the ho real court which was in hi session lh ero sev BOV oral eral times during the year the court cour house in Bo onville then a hamlet of less than inhabitants in strong contrast to tho the beautiful new structure that now adorns the beautiful little t town own stood in the very spot where the new one now stands in the center of a largo court square it was a frame building the architecture was to say the least very novel A ditch two feet wide and two feet deep was filled with smoothly hewn logs on which was built a stone wan 18 inches high this furnished the foundation upon which the building proper rested the building itself was never entirely completed it was weather boarded but neither plastered nor lathed bathed it remained in this condition I 1 until 1836 which was vas after tho the lincoln family had moved to illinois it was capable of holding only a hundred people and could only be used in the summer slimmer in the night the cattle which grazed about town would go amx ture where president lincoln received hla his first impulse to become a lawyer here it was that he be received his first rudimentary practice in pleading cases that afterward aided in making him the lawyer of the reputation he had shortly after the assassination of abraham lincoln a picnic party from the little town of dale went up to lincoln city to the lincoln farm and spent the day the excitement was so high at that time that old people hs as well as young went to the farm and enjoyed themselves visiting the historical places in and about the lincoln farm the cabin was still standing and but a short distance up on the hillside was a marble slab that marked the spot 7 abt SO 0 p 1 11 J UPI where the good mother of Ab abraham lincoln lay beneath the sod while there the pic picnickers hickers went through the tha cabin where lincoln say his pass away and from which place aiace he returned to kentucky to get a minister to come to indiana and bury burk his mother nancy hanks lincoln Linco lh A few t 01 old relics were found among them being an old knot maul and an old fashioned ishlon ed I 1 mouldboard mould board plow both of w which aich had been left there when the moved to illinois the old plow was brought outside and an old man by the name of gabriel Aled calf stood be tween tae en the handles while one of the party caught a picture of the old lincoln lincola cabin the old man carrying the pole was joseph P haines better known as s uncle porter haines the picture of Lincol ns second log cabin was made from the original taken at the time this party went to the along in the seventies |