Abraham Lincoln

ID: 296
This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln's Grandfather

The death of Abraham Lincoln, Sr., had a profound effect on the life of the sixteenth president, who later characterized the event as "the legend more strongly than all others imprinted upon my mind and memory."

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This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln's Grandfather

By Warren Greer
Marker #101 identifies the site where Abraham Lincoln, Sr., grandfather of the sixteenth president, was killed by Indians in 1786. In referring to his grandfather in a letter to Jesse Lincoln in…