Friday! Time for an American Hero! Today is:
Knowing your American Heroes
ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)
Three miles south of Hodgenville
Was then Nolin Creek, Kentucky.
On a farm called Sinking Springs
For the Lincolns’ was unlucky.
A second child they called Abe
To Nancy Hanks and Tom Lincoln.
Named after his deceased grandfather
Who was killed by a hostile Indian.
Sarah was his older sister
And Thomas a younger brother.
Thomas who died in infancy
Shortly after he lost his mother.
When Abe was nine Tom re-married
Made Indiana their new home.
Her name was Sarah Bush Johnston
She loved young Abe as if her own.
Interested in politics
At the age of twenty-three.
Ran for the General Assembly
As member of the Whig Party.
Was captain in the militia
In a company from Illinois.
He taught himself the rules of law
As a lawyer he would enjoy.
In eighteen-thirty-seven
He was admitted to the bar.
Practice law with Stephen Logan
Abe’s reputation took him far.
November fourth in forty-two
At the age of thirty-three.
Abe Lincoln married Mary Todd
And four children would come to be.
Robert Todd and Edward Baker
Were the first two sons they had.
Abe and Mary would have two more
William Wallace and Thomas Tad.
Several nicknames like Honest Abe
And the Great Emancipator.
The American politician
Equal rights a vindicator.
In eighteen-hundred-and-sixty-one
As president he did possess.
The most famous of his speeches
Was the Gettysburg Address.
Emancipation Proclamation
Ending slavery in the states.
His role he played in history
A hero that’s no mistake.
At Ford’s Theater April fourteenth
In eighteen-hundred-and-sixty-five.
Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
President Lincoln’s name will survive.
AUTHOR NOTES* Born February 12, 1809; Hardin County, Kentucky (now in LaRue County) |
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