Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1899 |
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... Kentucky . There , one day in 1784 , the father , at his labor in the field , was shot by lurking Indians . His oldest son , working hard by , ran to the house for a gun ; returning toward the spot where lay his father's body , he saw ...
... Kentucky . There , one day in 1784 , the father , at his labor in the field , was shot by lurking Indians . His oldest son , working hard by , ran to the house for a gun ; returning toward the spot where lay his father's body , he saw ...
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... Kentucky shortly after Boone's settlement . 6 . Thomas moved first into the sparsely settled parts of Indiana , and thence went onward to a similar region in Illinois . Thus in time was corroborated what Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848 in ...
... Kentucky shortly after Boone's settlement . 6 . Thomas moved first into the sparsely settled parts of Indiana , and thence went onward to a similar region in Illinois . Thus in time was corroborated what Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848 in ...
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... Kentucky . She was then twenty - three years old . February 12 , 1807 , their daughter Sarah was born , who was married and died leaving no issue . February 12 , 1809 , Abraham Lincoln was born ; no other chil- dren came save a boy who ...
... Kentucky . She was then twenty - three years old . February 12 , 1807 , their daughter Sarah was born , who was married and died leaving no issue . February 12 , 1809 , Abraham Lincoln was born ; no other chil- dren came save a boy who ...
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... Kentucky and went into Indiana . Some writ- ers have given to this migration the interesting character of a flight from a slave - cursed society to a land of freedom , but whatever poetic fitness there might be in such a motive , the ...
... Kentucky and went into Indiana . Some writ- ers have given to this migration the interesting character of a flight from a slave - cursed society to a land of freedom , but whatever poetic fitness there might be in such a motive , the ...
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... Kentucky , and found there Mrs. Sally Johnston , a widow , whom , when she was the maiden Sarah Bush , he had loved and courted , and by whom he had been refused . He now asked again , and with better success . The marriage was a little ...
... Kentucky , and found there Mrs. Sally Johnston , a widow , whom , when she was the maiden Sarah Bush , he had loved and courted , and by whom he had been refused . He now asked again , and with better success . The marriage was a little ...
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