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Show MUM IMibmAi fmn p.Q mww f HiUitj hid Uniiti Dennis Hanks, Cousin of the Emancipator, Has Left Record of the Early Days in the Humble Hum-ble Littie Ke;. lucky Log Cabin. TTT EDDIXGS and births al- "ays attract attention, so it Y y is interesting to note thar the inarriage of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy flanks, the parents of Abraham Lincoln, and the advent into the world of the Great Emancipator Emanci-pator were not without exception. It was always the proud boast of Rev. Edward Head, a Methodist minister, and likewise a carpenter, that he performed the ceremony that united Abraham Lincoln's narents in mar- j riage. In telling of the bridal couple" ! and the feast, he said: "Xancy Hanks was a fresh-looking girl, I should say past twenty. Tom was a respectable mechanic, who could take his choice; and she was to be ! treated wiih respect. I was at the in-fare in-fare given by John II. Parrot t, her guardian and it was only girls will; money who had bad guardians appointed appoint-ed by the court. Our table was of puncheons cut from the solid legs, and they were the cabin's floor next day. - We had bear meat, venison, wild turkey, tur-key, ducks' eggs. ,iid and tame so common that yen could buy them at two bits a bushel maple sugar, swiir;: on a string, to bite off for coffee or j whisky; sirup ir. 1 itr gottrds, peach ar.d j honey; a sh .; that (he tv,m families barbecued whoie over coals of wood bunted i; a pit, and covered with , green Ninths to keep in the juices ;i and a race for the whisky bottle." 1 Another I'llesf ;1r the wodilitr' was Christopher C.lim! lis Graham, v ho lived to be more than one hundred years old. In explaining his r- seitee at the festivities. Graham said: "You see, I vas out btintieg r s for medicines, a: 1 I just wenr r- lie' wedding to get: a aond su; per -a '. I got it. Tom Lincoln M as a c.-trpetii and a good one for those days, v.h.-ii a cal hi v. as built mostly wi,h a:. ;.:. It didn't have a nail or a !.. li or a hinge in it only leathers an ' pia t to th- door. Then- wasiPl any git, - either, except what you mit-ht had P. botih-.s tr wao-hes. and SI toot;;, e -. ii they owned th-:i. IJnt Tom Lite opi had the ! est s. t of tools in tie- v ..i,. o .ty." lieai. is Hanks, Lincoln's cmisiu and i play; .ale, pikes up the story : "When Xnney i 'an-p-d T un ho was world;. Lr in a carpenter slaei. It v a-n't Tt.t.S U,U he COllMl.'t , ;;,kc a livil.f by lis trte'e; there was sean-eiy aav money ;:: the country. So Tom tool, up -me l;,..d miLloy per lam!. m,t the ho Co..' 1 f v.I.oil hi J 1 lailetl tr.., e I'ot it. "Tip:: a:. ". V ' ., iived fn a f o e v. ti s p, ,r:;.'' 1 t. t.tos i ianhs ro t. to d. ' I. r--e ilh-i ; 'Pom eo, o-.-er to - house one rol l tttorah, in Pel'ftM.i and .- yitig. kin I oi si.,-,-: "? 1 l let- L'ol ;t a-' f. d a ad hi;r-; uri la r wo.'; to i.ot and iooi; at: t the Of!" fedo-.v; but I didn't here mailt,.:: :.. wall for. sr. I en; and run the vhu!c two miles to see my o? cousin. You bet I was tickled to death. Babies wasn't as common us blackberries iu the woods of Kentucky. "1 rolled up and slept in a bearskin, that night by the fireplace, so I could see the little, fellow when he cried, and Tom had to get up and tend to him. Nancy lot me hold him pretty soou. "folks often ask me if Abe was a good-looking "baby. Well, now, he looked just like any other baby at lint like red cherry pulp squeezed dry. And he didn't improve as he grew old- I or. Abe never was much for looks. I recollect how Tom joked about Aha'i long h irs when he was toddling about the cabin. He givw out of bis clothes f.t.her than Nan. y could make them. ".vl'ter he could w: o; Ahe never gave Nancy any trouble, -ccpt to keep him in cloikos. Most ..;' iho lime we went barefoot. Hid y .u over wear a wet hmkskin glove? Well, moccasins weren't any protect i a against the wet. bor snow, i ireh bat-!; w ith hickory bark soles, slraj pod over yarn socks, beat I ... ."-a'' .' V Kt,V - ' iJrr.cy La Me Hold Him Pretty Soon." buckskin all hollow. Abe and me got pi'e.ty h.m.dy eoiiiriving things that way. P.ml Ahe, about as soon as lie was w. :::-. d. was right out in the woods, fi i e j., (,,'eek, setting traj.s f-r rttbiiits and mtisltrats, going on - -1, tints villi Tom and me and the -: ::-. following up bees to find tho bee trees ami dropping corn for bis pap".'''. It was a mighty interesting life i or a 1 "y, '..if there was n good insi-y fit, :.-- thai he wouldn't live to u t ow ',;'.."' 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