1. Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd, lost three of their four children early on. Eddie died at age 3 of "chronic consumption" (likely tuberculosis), and Willie was born 10 months later.

Children and unsettled ... Jaques, “and if ever a person was converted Abraham Lincoln was.” So far as is known Lincoln did not corroborate this story, but he does say later that about ...

who raised the Lincoln children with love and affection. The Lincolns moved again, this time to Illinois, when Abraham was 21. Shortly after, Abraham settled in New Salem, Illinois, where he ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky and grew up in Indiana. The youngest child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Lincoln had one sister three years his ...

who raised the Lincoln children with love and affection. The Lincolns moved again, this time to Illinois, when Abraham was 21. Shortly after, Abraham settled in New Salem, Illinois, where he ...