Lincoln's views on his mother's ancestry

[Vicky Reany Paulson]

(10-12-2013 06:25 PM)My Name Is Kate Wrote:  I should probably keep my nose out of this, since I'm not in possession of any facts about it whatsoever, but it strikes me as out-of-character that Lincoln would refer to any child, particularly his own mother, as "illegitimate". I think he had brains enough to realize that there is no such thing as an illegitimate child, only illegitimate parents.

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Lincoln said bastard, not illegitimate. At least this is what Herndon wrote, and is requited in Herndon's Informants, book by Rodney Davis. Both terms mean the same.