If the choice were mine, Lincoln too would rest here, side by side with such comrades, among the thickly clustered ranks of these honored dead. ca 1846Born in poverty and “raised to farm work ...

"Abe Lincoln's few schooldays were spent at a 'blab ... and pointed it through the rails,--so,--and took aim and shot the hog dead all right. And then he and my mother went into the pen and ...