Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When Abraham Lincoln, with a bullet in his head, crumpled slow ly into his chair in Ford's Theatre one April night, three men carried him across the street to a little house opposite. It was the house of William Peterson, a tailor. The President lay there all night, and all night his blood seeped into the square feather pillow under his head...
...Wenzing willed the pillow to a Washington schoolmistress, Mrs. Jessie F. Webster. With it went the following affidavit: "This is to certify that the pillow now in the possession of Jessie F. Webster of the City of Washing ton, D. C., is the same pillow on which President Abraham Lincoln died, April 15, 1865. His death occurred in my room in my old home, No. 516 Tenth Street, Northwest, Washington...
...pallet of cornhusks and bearskins, on Feb. 12, 1809, a slight, dark, grey-eyed woman with an accented chin and high cheekbones is delivered of a boy baby. A neighbor's kid runs down the road to see. "What you goin' to name him, Nancy?" Nancy Hanks Lincoln says, "Abraham, after his grandfather. . . . Be keerful, Dennis, fur you air the fust boy he's ever seen...
...Lincoln, a big, slow-spoken man, slick at hunting and swapping, but not clever, moves his family up to Knob Creek on the Louisville-Nashville pike. Young Abe walks four miles to school, a one-room school with no windows, a "blab" school where you say your lessons to yourself out loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion...
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Prairie Years (2 vols.) *Carl Sandburg Harcourt, Brace ($10). *The Poetry Society's Prize was awarded also that year to Stephen Vincent Benet for Heavens and Earth...