Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln the sixteenth president of the United States of America was born on February 12, 1809 in a one room log cabin to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln.   Abraham’s grandfather, the man who he was named after had been killed in 1786 moving his family from Virginia to Kentucky in an Indian raid.   Within two years of Abraham’s birth his father moved the family a few miles away to Knob Creek.   Lincoln’s father owned a farm where he grew up and spent his time helping his father until he turned seven when the family moved north to Indiana.   His father had a problem with slavery where it was allowed in Kentucky and so they moved to the free state of Indiana to get away from slavery, even though Lincoln’s father had once owned a slave.   The family carried all of their belongings on the backs of two horses and didn’t even have a house waiting for them when they arrived in Indiana.   They decided to build a house on a plot of land that looked decent to them and it was finished just after Abraham turned eight.   Abraham spent a lot of time here helping his father farm, but he didn’t enjoy manual labor, he preferred reading of telling people stories and making them laugh.   When Abraham was ten a terrible sickness came through the family and his mother died when she was just 34.   His father remarried in 1819 to Sarah Bush Johnston, whom Abraham became very close to.   When Abraham was 14 his family joined the church but Abraham didn’t want to, he mocked the preacher’s sermons.   By age 15 the total amount of education Abraham Lincoln had was less than one year.   In 1830 his family moved Illinois and Lincoln decided to go off on his own to Mississippi, only to see slavery and come back home.   Lincoln’s first girlfriend was Ann Rutledge who died when she was 22 of typhoid fever.   Lincoln ended up marrying Marry Todd from a wealthy slave holding family.
The Lincoln’s had four children, Robert, Edward, William, and Thomas, Robert was the only one who...