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Show SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, _SUNDAY. 7. 1909 FEBRUARY SS ___THE _INTER- MOUNTAIN RREPUBLICAN. Louse 272 PLC . Gan me % fhard! Jo rnsnt Kelme Bs | Comes PILE 6. wii ele é ja Jol Any MBs frien L gin. -_- ees pe Both = asd Aeon y it = Leet ot rae ret DU hie D vias oll) aaile ee, y aikedtA alas io Le ae coun) ere L ide ae Acto tte os, ay haw red HA Zz ~ Tx » VASA SL bret ‘Miamax> hom - LLCO, L tol SCE ROL 1, FE LEGO OF EL FE, . or t ‘Lopec to by or Je we LOTMA fo golden-ha{red, shivering as she snuggled blankets, pursuing the road of tho ploneers. who iS n Inco er.s lot b UW e Ti 7 - ee . . . : } HE nistor y a : very mie clares a sell- knog wi writer, de. re vr begins al to become now developed to be inherited the The t Yl was was as . oO greatest family the in of Washington county, icky, In winter Hard work confronted privation. Trees had to be felled, a log ind shelter erected for the stocl lisp : words the ideals and Little Nancy, with her sisters, helped thelr mother, cooking and ae who art "a of Heaven.' Abraham 7 r Our Father, Lincoln's career . began "e at: i th. knee of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, his mother. Lt was she who taught him, to read from an came toto know who told S Id Bible ole he he .came Know: soso well, well, who tole wim the stories in Aesop's fables and helped him to study t was rs 4 the alphabet ry the‘ ‘Kentucky she who and taught | Se first Preceptor." Phd him the ° letiers of trained his hand to svomen T which lasted throughout his life. Nancy President's Hanks historians shouldered, erable' ; whose few had kind, been enjoyments, prime. This <was and uncomplaining of who N ancy ; as will he v rigs hard died Hanks labor, before Lincoln, with worn tay on her deathbed, tired ané worn, her face wan, her thin, bony hands clasping those of a g-year-old lad, whose deep-sunk eyes were filled with tears, and who, when he later hbecame "a libsrator of a race of men," de- circle- her in' accomplishment of letters the to form husband Treé markable her taught VYo?SISTO toll, b te 4 was alled. "Peity. M: the The followed; Nelaon county ae emory laet will 7 atat ot Kent the old, orgot. y his English -S Neiresa Cove VeCSt Pre _ E: budded flanks, When they Joshua oem 1y son one ray called ‘Tobe, live, Jose ne mare Bonn Pate sald item a I firs a d, be nee unto my beth one heifer yearlng calle Gen bequest quntd my een Be oe ore Calle 2a'1) 4 ni I give anc equeath marc aaeaten pein renee palled o the jevire that the queathed should si whole be the nd AneO Henks Hanks' a' . the whic grandson Joseph s 2S. i osep! grandson. owned ploneers, married later . of Thomas no slaves and never owned r ani bestow fie ce hat yon he RR bE Set Sts sether in rele he aught Rocce ¢ To . + him et Btls her tr and fhe eyes we ght edd Tae ee ancy lost } the to pell ee fon \ pale r . he letters of wa go} den, « Pr I ‘ir protests, ils nd wamtiG Thomas wis c a urpenter, and {f th ord he It was , wedding i Tae a Pi Mttle and gift to house In ; Sana wan from 1 whict oe - c oe little girl, and t was ttle calle¢ girl's thomas h owned Lincoln 1 rad bought in 1803. near ring the Bufis alo, two "4 EF ABRAHAM' was once said that vailing sentiment of erful, yet : LINCOLN » sad, it the pre- his pow- Pi slips nt, "an you tell me who wrots the a rt mpi find Some gol gh te. authors Ip t sia have > "Tt. was written died 1 a dice of Eiuntehanie Pal dir poems: a Scottish poet r ana gh " welt' ‘Christopher ‘North,' poem?" of .the Mr, Il. new: spapers Wilson'o,"' replied, thorshir of considerable @ publishe aoe a i OS glorious memory, e "by Will- talent, who hist Ww years he 1 | "Walt volumes : Scott and to many was expressed j in the line, "Oh, ae THEGA Rotts ecraty. leaders of his day why should should thethe spiri appreciate meritorious verse, the sam ‘ why spirit of mor- © ples usuro can who be enjoyed here, in the reading of the poem cD tal be proud?" i eeren eack nee annd talk 1 Vouchsaf venta. th at rt r leh.it ofSe rare of beauty amid The sympathetic observer, of war and stress of a pe Obl a peril. This 1s th the umu poem who found there so splendid a significance, guessed '" full: the secret that lay within with almost clairvoyant Oh! why ‘al 1a. the Ste ot! tan roud Like./a insight. clou 1 7 flash of the ie it ning, a brea the wa ae i" the opening line of the poem which Ho, passeth' from life to his rest in the grave was , y i vas Lincoln's favorite. It was written by r aF young Tialeneey at itecak end the ‘willow shall fade Seotchman, who died at the age of 37-the age Be scattered around and together be laid; ne 1@ young and the old. and the low anc he ay to Burns, Byron, Motherw ell und other gifted Shall moulder to dust and together shall li oets poet NE evening E peated uing the --- nes a. se, in Deeember, 1 verses to Colone! J. in Washing ton. withhenweniautania hine : 7 hes Be ne mor ealanca olon Wilson Penenien cient s 2 Mr, Lincoln reG. Wilson, then oe esident,' remarked his have «omitted a Sarina of it.' a a there re of it?'' exclaimed guest, Mr. Arie re you ‘ Tincoln, The infant and mother attended and loved i ae mister that ‘nfant's affection: eho pr The eae eh at MAGLN GE nda wh b ach; vail: (arate to thete Ah of reat The the delight of the on whose cheek, whose brow, he Oe The Are aeere of nleden of the king of the the and that priest rug lost that the scepter, hath born: the and tho' sheart).o tn th pths "or er hath The Have wise ie quictly we W We And ro the brave the gray pra eye, ane ene foolis) the guilty ngled their bones tn the ame ame AG = ie "the run the sight@ zamo same The thoughts rom the d J tut the {t as our that stre am course poe fathers our and r Ing l, Uke loved, but ae Se ae 10% a ve Oo b ick a cannot of the it Orr ont the r the tongue of their Tis From From Oh follow the jus ist th of other, an ¢ Ilke is surge the bee have would on the sun 1K; wing unfold; alndnban is ad come; dumb, road, too hard for TO ONE the ten- ANOTHER" sht fell, and from the loft came a stifled sound sobbing-sobbing ea checked, restrained, yet so poignant, so keen, rt-forlorn that father, returning home, paused heasine it, his heart sinkine He a ew the sunli f a oy's Hfe had departed. Many years afterw ople wondered at the sor row macuiad indelibly on the tace of Lincoln-lIike agony rraven on a figure of stone se NraTicy Hanks Lincoln succumbed to a fever which the carried away few days before; melancholy. Rutledge, his ove, that there developed in him the gloom and sense of fatality which colored his ife {In later years, when Lincoln, again shrouded tu . by the bedside of his little son, Willie, dying, he cried In deap I : tae is the of my life. Why Is Why js it?' A had lost her husband and children told loss, ad "But rust in rely some. friend S to pray for him. "I will try my sorrows," he said. "I wish I falth you speak of. I trust God ae the a s Linc ge marri ad who, It 7 Sho eae fron to the two mother- ehilalike pain, dings, surge of been en; haughty:ig slumber wil upon had many years befo became a mother s would th nat 6 would anol ink: draught life éd, died, We things, "nat are ©. rf that les air eir "awe llings a transl abo that they met on their OHfan image each: oe the loving wife and she sank under the burden. One day in October, 1818, as she lay In her bed { little cabin, she called her two children to her. The sun, flooding through the doorway, wreathed the faded face with a halo of g came the crisp odor of warm, the a A smile wreathed tho faco of the Ww cary woman. he behol told Yes! h and Pes pOnt en sy pleasure and We mingle tog oan sunsQine and rain; And the emi nd u ~ tear, the song and Suit foe, heaver have fathers But der, of view the same fathers have r viking our fa © shrinking aux life spe He lef vas not prosperous with the father. where he cky and went prospecting in Illinois, in Spencer up land on Little Pigeon creck, took was called county. sind agein the hard-worked wife upon to move her home in a wagon and With thelr furniture packed started on their long their cow behind, the family pilgrimage In 1816. During the winter of 1816 and the 1817 family lived in a camp. The winter was rigorous Hardship and privation and suffering from cold were the portion of the lMttle family. Uncomplainingly the tender, gentle woman bore but her health slowly gave way, her face beher lot was more wan. A rough cabin begun in the ame and life opened anew. Land was cleared. spring Lincoln plied his trade among the scattered Thomas in iabitants of the solitary region. They began to "BE GOOD yyed the communion of "dis irred to remain unforgive » the multitude goes, ilke the flower [hat withers away to let other succeed » th Dae ude comes, éven those we fo repe erv tale that bas often b aroot in whose Shone benuty and pl ure-her- triurophs by And the memory or those that beloved ber and Are alike from the minds of the living erased The to maid saint the eginner that never world She took the hands of Sarah and the thin, seriousfaced boy : good to one another," she sald, brokeniy, with Infinite "tendernes Then she closed her eyes wonderful smile deepe ned. le Bunlig deat evening, and little Abe, leaving Sarah kneeling ie bed, ae away and climbed the pe in the Il to the rret, where he flung himself on a mats of 1 ae e pe hose lot wa rhe herdsman. who climbed with fa ‘goats up The bexe wae w andere in searc a of his | Have faded a like the grasg that we tread. The The the Bible, and there book; there was told old story. And these stories Lincoln When, In after life, he electrified the eloquence, his mastery of pure and perfect tempestuous oratory, he retold the and his stories he heard at his mother's storiles-the prosper. v Lineoin marriedg farm that MOST STI RRED S SOU LSS ROM his mother, Lincoln once told his friena and law partner, Willlam H. Herndon, he believed he inherited his power of analysis, his logic, his mental activity and his ambition Her memory remained with him. one of the dearest things of his life-"‘a noble type of good, heroic womanhood." SOLACE knee y 1 ar y € addé yk day In 1807, Nancy's one a r. 7 Thomas to and she square on 7 a her ce le 720 : ‘ a h lumber chairs ‘hewn by a bencl thez of < rude Re ae 3 cd There, Nancy te E ‘Mzabethtow a Lincoln. his im brought fect Sf de ee uah ime O but nee needy yearsyears tthe coup! ut ived he bank what was then Eee Oa ae of rer a ere areknow! ‘the gle roo nT © isle stabil eee ee ee = the eee cua "about it¢ th Hedacitiac aucine re ee 9. SuUcn arwhere n, two alog There Salamis ‘fre ate: v a record so noblymostin ofJoseph the unlike Nancy Y nam Jar dawehter Elizatem: hel e y¢ T unto my daugh- of the pro ty property 4 ada 7 y be found bought cLinc Item: T give and calle: . too, can . Iten containing one ‘hundred and. ‘i one aoe , and bequeath ‘untoI giveny ‘and. son bequeath Wi wpe gueuntoEThymy horse: Item: go son s idded I, Josept Hanke, . being of sound ralnd S23,eD°™PRy, Bt wenstnn botDay andd calcalling in, to. mindnd t tl and aner following, to.» wits ein 16m st' i in the 16 mauner © and"a for:form and bequeatt torreltem:hors gi pee, Major. Item: te I give 0 andThomas vee « my ; Here, > y, a Log Cexbin Mititclt Lou g Lit CON 71 LIP L2DOLLIES L GTHACF LI Cebd still of will, nothing himsolf of which sho made garments for her husband, little Sarah and Abe, Nancy Lincoln's beauty faded; the roses fled from her cheeks, her body became wasted and her shoulders stooped. But her happy spirit never left hor; she had a word of cheer for all her neighbors. Stories are told of how she visited the sick and comforted them, and how, when her nelghbors were in difficulty, her tender heart was moved and she heiped them as best she eould, Dearly Nancy Lincoln loved srere readings from the sacred Berry. This up, cheerful quaint Lincoln at this time his boyhood Lincoln Those were wonderful evenings. As she sat by the earth she would read stories from an old, torn copy of Aesop's fables. And the deep-eyed boy would lison, with eager gaze, tense face, to the story of the vicked fox longing for the grapes, the fox and the tork and the tortoise and the hare! Then, when the tory was read, Mttle Abe would ask questions; he ould repeat the wonderful stories, and the characters and animals in the old fables became his friends. WILL proud life of Nancy written Of "LITTLE ABE" HER clared: 4 that I am or ever hope to be I owe to my mother. Blessings on her memory." Nancy Hanke was & years old when her parents s0ld thelr farm in Virginia and went ploneering westWard toward Kentucky. Nancy was the youngest of a family of: clght children. Wer father was Joseph Hanks and her mother Nancy Shipley, a daughter of Robert Shipley. Nancy was born Iebruary 5, 1784 The journey westward was a perilous one, and it is said' Nancy was stolen by Indians while her parents were on the way, Roads were bad; In fact, there Was only @ footpath through the wilderness, where pussed the long procession of women and children on porgeback, men pled pS behind driving the cture to yourself cession, deserlbed by Jusatise Rober rtson-"through rerio incredible and perils thick, thousands of men, smen came in su caravans, streams E beings8s, cattle, and other domestic animals, moving onward ‘along a lonel y and homeless path wild and cheerless land. 3 k,"" he eon Bae: procession 8 tion; thelr on driving plete and le horses, men, walking with alls on their heads, cer riding with chi cen in thelr laps and other children swung askets on hoorses, fasgene to the tails of others ne before: see them enamped at night, expectin be massacred by Insane behold them In " month of December, in that the emorable season of unprecedented cold called and tho been seldom spoke. But one can imagine the patient woman, alone and unassisted, performing the work of her household, tending the cows and milking them, aking butter, cleaning the meagerly furnished cabin n which the family lived, cooking and spinning clot! Her lifo was hard, But thére was cause for fo' n Nancy Lincoln's life. Little Abe was her constant delight. At night, when her work was over, she would open the "preceptor" book and teach the two children the letters of the alphabet, With what tenderness and love she must have watched them as they studied-so hard to memorize the A's, B's and C's- and with what doting fondness she must have trained little Abe's tiny hand to trace the letters on a slate! vhole.. est¢ ite Ate my Bier ~; Mnele , Catate, during ber, - lifs, efverwaaa nis war witha.) coho read hard st with OLD "*" probated May, of 14, God1793, Amenruns n the name Gilbert. woman, could daughters married, and Nancy, left in by her Aunt Lucy-a sister « A QUAINT nto mis- mother, who had married Richard happy one and Nancy grew was "stoop- - wuereoa 1 now times re- wedding Elizabeth and Polly sewing and prepar- When Nancy's father died he left a will. It is on the records of the Bardstown clerk's offlee. 4 sada one her mother, home was a and pretty one of the great - one roa declares, thin- breasted, a gentle, life Lincoln, " he brothers and alone, was taken helfer : ' ' scrawl them. It was she who instilled in, him a hatred of slavery and by her own gentle loveliness inspired a regard and esteem for She was the Thus four years passed-four years d toil hard iiving-and then Joseph Hanks died. Nol ana ‘o fortune: in even built nia ane and viy wedding v glory Of has too, Ken- them, cabin *"4 whenand spring came they dug the ground planted whéat and corn. thoughts e was under to high it In the child found. ail a woman-the frail and gentleb crea-od 3 z a : him h The1 future venison, Abraham ine the rude home, while the brothers, Charles, Joshua Vi m, Thomas and Joseph, went about with the catner, clearing the land for cultivation in the spring ‘They hunted animals and fished in the cold strean teach to ducks. k of were Lincoln which a courage and perseverance and which afterward. marked one of men. ‘settled: mother MC Meaiets okiea. pening: every ne a great endeavor and. unselfish deed, every no-.' ble career of every illustrious man will be lure whose name, perhaps, remains obscurec behind the glory of her son, but who began Of 72 Ss wedding ‘ringing home of Nancy Lincoln," wrote: Nicolay and Tay "rs 1ccounts represent her as a handsome ing won a . ot : appearance aa » a and intellect su-4 rom f . turias undl Pp y and or year was no hint There ‘hard winter,' traveling two or three. miles a day." And Imagine lMttle Nancy Hanks, spindly-legged and Vy S Le LPIC dinner, the wIlA _ mbere: 'There or Ver after ind a for and | LES. served write-a_ even ind Am boughs, | | s { green s-with merrymaking and the Mitchells, Shipleys relatives and friends roundabout In a pit near the house bullt, over which a sheep wa s placed During the morning it roasted, cov- and dered oe foto AS by tl anc born on February 12, 1809." The family, however, could not have besn ex tremely destitute, for, wo are told, they had a cow and What a calf, milk and butter and a feather bed moved wealth! When Abraham was 4 the family again-thts time to a cabin, situated on Muldraugh's hill There a third child was born, which died when 2 few months old it té All And a wedding it ting There were Berrys, Nancy's ind from the country a great fire was nd barbecued improving farm, spring following Lincoln, Nicolay write "Tnomas Lincoln settled down in this dismal soll nad tude to a deeper poverty than any of his name ever known; and there, In the midet of the most unpromising circumstances that ever witnessed the advent of a hero into this world, Abraham Lincoln was Re an { thit-ahoneas" tHe dba ad Hay he and Nancy agreed in that The couple eninto a marriage bond on June 12, 1806. On Juno couple were married by a Methodist preacher, lesse Head, who besides being a clergyman, editor, country judge and carpenter i ont aera on Mill creek he cultivated the ground, and there he moved tho birth of Sarnh. In their life of true, the best in the country for many miles ; He not only hacked and hewed and chisel led wood vith skill, but he did what none others had succecded in doing-chiseled his way into the heart of Nancy. Thomas Lincoln had a vyariled caree He was rong as an o temperate in his habits, an attendit at chureh and was bitterly opposed to slavery. tninge har ahearee IA. 020 Lieretzploce o£ AE are its oDS wou orn Mae Paty EL SO 006 FRa h mdm oP LG othr) we! . onc "ts "eo trnne to so DQOg S. jig EPOPIB SL TPT COlPT SET PL COA MAM GAER breath the yeom of Wealth to the paleness of deatt the wilded saloon to the bler and the shrou rhy should.tho spirit:of mortal be proud" to gO to had thet will give 0 Then his memory traveled back over the his epee loss by de ath came to his mind. of his mother's confident beilef in ithe God. "I remember her prayers," he said voice, ‘and they have always followee 5 me. followed me all years and He told cao of in a low Thoy have . |