Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln, a widow with two girls and a boy of her own, had energy and affection to spare. Fortunately, before the onset of a second winter, Thomas Lincoln brought home from Kentucky a new wife for himself, a new mother for the children. As a ragged nine-year-old, he saw her buried in the forest, then faced a winter without the warmth of a mother’s love. In afteryears he recalled the “panther’s scream,” the bears that “preyed on the swine,” and the poverty of Indiana frontier life, which was “pretty pinching at times.” The unhappiest period of his boyhood followed the death of his mother in the autumn of 1818. Abraham helped to clear the fields and to take care of the crops but early acquired a dislike for hunting and fishing. Soon he built a permanent cabin, and later he bought the land on which it stood.

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