Abraham Lincoln: The Final Truth
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On February 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln and he also was born with a sister, Sarah, he was born in Spring Creek, Kentucky near Hogenville. When his cousin Dennis Hanks picked him up from the new mothers hands the baby started to cry as he put him back in his mothers arms he said the now famous words "Here you hold him, he'll never amount to much".Of course we know different. When he was two he moved from Spring Creek to Knob Creek, Kentucky. It was there that he started his schooling. He once said "My schooling didn't amount to more than one year." Abe taught himself to read, write, and do arithmetic.
When he was seven his family moved to Indiana because the land was cheaper and better for farming, and his father wanted to get out of Kentucky because it was a slave state and he was adamently opposed to slavery a trait his son picked up...