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Friday, 4 October 2024

On This Day October 5

Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died of milk sickness on October 5, 1818, age 34. after her family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and she drank the milk. The  9-year-old Abraham assisted his father in the making of her coffin by whittling the wooden pegs that held the planks together. His 11-year-old sister Sarah cared for him until their father remarried the next year.

Nancy Hanks Lincoln depiction

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