Abraham Lincoln's Childhood?
I was born on the 12th of February, 1809, in a log cabin. In
sinking spring farm southeast, Hardin County, Kentucky. I was named
after my dead grandfather, who was killed in 1786, shot from being
ambushed by an Indian while clearing a field but I wasn't given a
middle name because my parents didn't think that It was needed.. I
grew up on the American frontier. I had to educate myself by
reading borrowed books. As a young boy I grew up on the American
frontier, and moved to many different places. In 1811 I moved to a
farm on knob creek. In 1816, October, 5th, (I was about the age of
7) I then moved to Indiana, settling near a present day gentry
vile. I have two siblings:
Sarah-she was born on the 10th of February; 1807and died in
childbirth on January, 20th, 1828, along with her child.
Thomas- he died in infancy in 1812.
I also had 3-step-sibling: John, Matilda, and Elizabeth. I had a
mum called Nancy hanks, and a father called Thomas Lincoln. My
father, and grandfather (Abraham) were born in Rockingham county
Virginia. When I as 21my family moved to Illinois, in 1831, I left
home for New Salem, in Sagaman County near Springfield I never
joined a church, anywhere I went. The reason I never joined any was
because many church members were opposed of slavery. I grew to be a
tall and strong teenager. In 1828, at 19, I helped take a flatboat
down the Ohio River to New Orleans. There I saw for the first time
slaves being sold in the marketplace. I would work to end slavery
for the rest of my life.
