Show SAllAIIlJUSlt LIXCOLN TIIC FOBTBR MOTHntt 01 THE MAtlTYnnD PHBSIDENT ci of 110 life is T1oI iy Ito Tho ltv iieClee O ioteea tstisr Mhlch Cite llrf in e Tnm I beams eec < inl tOife Illi aeooBipanylng portrait of Sarah lluth Lincoln is I from n portrait In i i pcxoemlon of tier 5 grand I 1 daughter 1 i 5 Mr Harriet Chapman flit I Chap-man of Ctinrle town lit It wni latelr nrlnted In i holt tone In Me < Iiiree I Magailne by pe < lal permlmlon ot the Oil ner Sarah Ilimh woe born In Kentucky December 13 lOSS She was a friend and companion of Thomn Lincoln and Nancy Ihnk and It li I aid that Thoma llncolnniketl her tint to marry him but that she preferred Daniel Johntton Her huiband died before Thom Lincoln lout hli wife In October ot ISIS In November 1819 Thoma Lincoln went In Kentucky to ixtelc her n leeond lime In marriage to hIs aunt who was then n wIdow Johnston she told l him that tho would be perfectly willing to marry him aj Ibo bad known him a long < time nod felt tint the marriage woul I be congenial con-genial end happy but It would bo Im poMlble for her to even think ot marrying mar-rying and leaving the slate U he wss eonelderably In debt and could not think ot leaving the Into while la debt Uncle Thomas told her that need mike no difference aa he hail plenty of money and would lake core of her financial affair and ahen he bll < llII eertalned the amount of her Indebted nM and the names of tho partIes to whom tho money wa due ho wont around and redeemed ill her paper antI prrwnted It to her and told her when ihe ihowed 10 much honor about debt ho wi more fully tatlifled than ever that sIte would make him a good wife She mid ni he had illiplayed no ranch gcnrronlly In her behalf she woo willing will-ing then lo marry and go with him to Bpenrer county Indiana Thli second wife of Thomas Lincoln lion n vast re lallonihln lit Ing In till Ilnrdln county among them the nephew from whom the above woo obtained also a niece Mr M 1 II Cofer whose huiband died a few years ago nab wa at the limn ot lili death chief juillee of the uptime court of Kentucky Mho ha also a nephew lion W 1 U Iludi 01 Frankfort Kentucky and 7 it I t 4 V4O a tiII BAUAH IIUBII LINCOLN An Incident the courtiblp Is told In I a private letter from OIr3 UrN n couiln ot Treidlent Lincolns I boss recently pent a few days In Kllzabethtown the Kentucky home ot Uncle Thomas Lincoln Whllo there I bad a long lull with my old friend lion 8 11 lluih who U a nephew ot Preildcnt Lincoln ilcpmolhcr He told mo that when Uncle Thomas came back after tho death of hla first wife Nancy Hank and propoied marriage I one Han Uobtit lluih at HaweivlUe Kentucky The intn rank among the beirtawycr tipKentucky Sarah lluth Lincoln changed the character ot thin Lincoln homo completely when the entered II and there In no qucitlon of this Importance ot her Influence upon Iho development ot her tepon Abraham Abra-ham Silo wan n woman of great natural nat-ural dignity and kIndlIness antI highly high-ly I esteemed by all who knew her She died on tho 10th of April 1809 |