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Show try. He was not poor. The year was 17S3. Indians Killed Grandfather. Again, the Philadelphians wera linked with Abraham Lincoln in tray edy. The country was beautiful and rich, but dangerous from hostile Indians. In-dians. Lincoln lost his life by the tomahawk tom-ahawk in the same year that George Keightly was killed in a similar, perhaps per-haps the same, Indian massacre. James Dunlap tells the story of Keightly's death in a letter to his brother, who had returned to Philadelphia Phila-delphia temporarily with plans to remove re-move his family to the new country. The letter, warning him to remain North, reads: "Dear Brother: I am now on my way to the Falls. I am sorry I have some very unhappy news to tell you that is the death of Mr. Keightly, who was killed by the Indians on the 12th of August, 1784, within five miles of this place and 15 from the Falls W. Daniels, the lawyer, was killed at th; same instant. Mr! Johnston, the clerk of the lower county, was wounded; in the same company, Mr. Keightly was shot, tomahawked and scalped Pray drive away all notions of returning to this country. All that is to '.,e got in it Is not equal to the danger that attends at-tends living in It" When Abraham Lincoln met his death at the bands of the Indians, his oldest son, Mordecai, who was fifteen years old at the time, avenged his death as an Indian stooped over to take the pioneer's scalp. Thomas Lincoln, Lin-coln, father of the President, witnessed wit-nessed the scene, lie was ten years old at the time. The entire estate went to Mordecai Lincoln, under the law of primogeniture, nnd consisted mainly of !i..ri-4'l acres of land In Virginia Vir-ginia and in Kentucky a considerable estate for "a drifting, moving people, struggling with poverty." Father Owned Land. So It was that Thomas Lincoln was to earn' his livelihood. He rose from laborer to carpenter, surveyor, soldier, farmer and property owner. In Elizabeth Eliza-beth town he was employed hy Samuel Haycraft, a substantial business man of the territory, who was a close friend of John Dunlap and who wrolo many letters to the Philadelphian. There he met Nancy Hanks and later built the cabin where Lincoln, the President, was born a new cabin and as well constructed as an average house of the time nnd section on a farm, ten miles from Eiizabethtown. at Hodgenville. Deeds In the courts there show that the farm which has been identified as the site of Lincoln's birthplace and from which t lie cabin enshrined in the Lincoln memorial was taken consisted of more than ,"iki acres a considerable consider-able plot, and not a few acres, as has been told. Tie farm was purchased in ISPS with ?-JOO In cash and other subsequent payments. He owned, in addition, records show, 230 acres of Kentucky lanrls. -Leonard fl. Aruold. in the Philadelphia Record. To Symbolize Lincoln Spirit In a clump of black oaks on a knoll in southwestern Indiana a monument of Indiana limestone Is to he erected to perpetuate the memory of Abraham Lincoln and enshrine the humble grave of Nancy Hanks Llncolu, his mother. Thomas Hihben of New York, a native na-tive of Indiana, has been selected as the architect, and his plans have been indorsed by the Indiana Lincoln union, an organization of nationally known Hoosiers. The edifice will be a departure from the usual sophisticated type of architecture. archi-tecture. Mr. Hibben explained. "We seek to create a symbol of the great power and gentleness that was Lincoln," said the architect. "Such genMeness is not negative, hut infinite and litman. Such power is the nobility nobil-ity cf strength, the understanding of all humanity In its reality." The memorial will be approximately 200 feet In each direction, comprising a series of four open courts of simple masonry surrounding a main building from which will rise a shaft ir.O fee-high. fee-high. The grounds surrounding the me morial will be landscaped to reproduce the scene as it was in the fourteen years the hoy Lincoln lived and toiled there. |