Putnam patriot., 1909-02-05
The Earl, Lite of Abraham ineoln.
nrx.1.r. rRsa naipae.

During the lat quarter of the eigh teeath century that region of femafk. able fertility which lies sauih et the Onto River was organized bs the ges- esnsneni into the District af kenlaekA and then, Tn the year lsa2, inlo the State now hearing that name. Courts af in~tiec we're instituted in widely SC pafnted settlements. log houses were built hy the pioneers in iittlc clusters where at present populeus cities afe located in some instances schools oi an elementary character wcrc taught, chiefly hs New tns land men who, al the close lai tue Revolutionary War, found their way iute the western ail- defness
 About the year ilssl Abraham Lin eoln. the grandfather of the marlsf- 1 President, set out with his vile and five children. from Rockingham eo0n. Ets. Virginia. ta seek home in this new county II Is quite certain he made lbe venture nn account of his sssoeia. ton with, and his venerslion for. that 1 most lannon's ot all American frontiers | Daniel Boon. They themselves ~ee kindred spirits, and their families l ter q century previous had ts'ea closely stiled with each other tn har,ishtp> and teil. Lincoln settled in Jefferson sean. l ty, and was well ads sneed in the rude forms Of Southern hushsndry, raising l corn ard tohaccc, when, en going to his teil ene morning. in is>b, an ia- disn's haliet laid him low in death. Al that nament his youngest son Tho. mas, the father of the future President, Was standing near and saw the mnt. tienoA> sel eetnnaiiled lie was only t~as es seven sears ol age. and although he ass tiilesi with horror At the sight, and never cxeSed ,o emcmher IL, the event did noi render him sa implaca be sos to ghe vd man of The forest, as sl certainly sitd hts older brother NeF- ,sscal, who tx said 10 have shoi an In. daaa sl sight whenever he found him
 fof lime AfIet this domestic loss iae taihefless family remasnesi tn the >sane soealiis, and then, N ben hesier prospects appcarcd. the widow tAn. ealn and her salldva eeeNed ts a more thtckly settled neighhorheod tn Washington county, my miles south. cSst og Louisville. Here Thomas IAn- esln grew up h manheoSi. chose his vocation ss a eafpsntet, mSrrtea his ] wife-Nsass nsnkshs aame. ard ln an essAs golag WAY, without amhataaa t.as rod ~tthoat seii-rs>l~et. he turned hss lsss toward the lat0re. never dreaming. nsehSely never caring. what there vas ta store feF han and the wonderful oflla s hon oed ss~ ii 10 give Eo him.
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