Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed From Nicolay Hay's, Abraham Lincoln; A History
When Thomas Lincoln was about twenty-eight years old he married Nancy Hanks, a niece of his employer, near Beechland, in Washington County. She was a good-looking young woman of twenty-three, also from Virginia, and so far superior to her husband in educa tion that she could read and write, and taught him how to sign his name. Neither one of the young cou ple had any money or property; but in those days liv ing was not expensive, and they doubtless considered his trade a sufficient provision for the future. He brought her to a little house in Elizabethtown, where a daughter was born to them the following year.
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