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Spring that Abe drank out of a thousand times ÜThere it is (we went down to it) walled up with brick Ühere is the old burnt oak tree Ühere Stood the School house Ü here were the Chimneys.
Hoskins farm is on the road leading from Rockport to Gentryville Üabout 14 M north of Gentryville2 Ü11Ö2 M South of Gentryvill ÜHouse Stands on the right hand of the road as you go from Rockport to Gentryville &c Ü3
LC: HW2359¬60; HL: LN2408, 1:95¬96
85. David Turnham to WHH 1
Elizabeth Ind. Sept. 16 1865. Sir:
After you left my house, I found a law Book, I suppose the ‚rst law book that Lincoln ever saw.2 I was acting constable at that time, is the way I got the book in my possession. The way I happened to ‚nd it was hunting for two books that Lincoln used to read a great deal while at my house; "Sinabad the Sailorîand "Scotts lessons,î3 they were entitled; those two I could not ‚nd.
Very Respectfully, Yours
David Turnham.
HL: LN2408, 1:180
86. Green B. Taylor (WHH interview)
Septr 16th 1865
My name is Green B. Taylor Üaged 46 Üam the son of James Taylor ÜKnew Abe Lincoln well ÜHe worked for my father 6 or 9 Months worked on the farm Ü run the ferry for my father from the Ky shore to the Indiana shore ÜThe ferry crossed the Ohio Ü& crossed the Anderson River Ü Abe would ferry from one side to the other and land in Perry or cross the Ohio and Anderson and land in Spencer Co ÜAbe lived with my father in the year 1825 and worked about 6 or 9 mo Ühe plowed Üferried, ground Corn on the hand mill Ügrated Corn ÜMy mother was Kind to Abe and Abe to her Ühe Abe went after the Doctress when my sister was born [illegible] my sister was born in
2. Presumably a mistake for Rockport.
3. Marginal note: Whiskey Story was told me by Hoskins.
1. A photostat of the original manuscript of this letter is in the ‚les of the Abraham Lincoln Association, ISHL, but the location of the original is unknown. The Springer transcription given here appears to differ slightly from the original in accidentals and word order but not in substance.
2.
Revised Laws of Indiana, Adopted and Enacted by the General Assembly at Their Eighth Session (Corydon: Carpenter and Douglass, 1824).
3.
"Sinbad the Sailorîis one of the tales in The Arabian Nights; William Scott, Lessons in Elocution, or a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse (1779).
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