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Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's birth mother, who died when he was 10 years old, was a wife, mother, and sometime seamstress.

His Stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, who cared for Lincoln from age 11 (almost 12) on, was also a mother of 5, after she married Lincoln's father, Thomas. She had previously been married, and worked with her first husband in Harlin County Jail, where cooked for the inmates and kept the jail clean. After Sarah's first husband died, Sarah moved into and purchased a small cabin in Freeman Lake Park, Elizabethtown, county Hardin in Kentucky. 3 years later, she and Thomas Lincoln married, (both having children from their prior marriages, from spouses who had passed away) she became a full-time mother and wife,

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