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[RJNorton]

Mary did brestfead her boys, and if I remeber correctly also, for a while, a neighbor's baby whose mother was too sick.

On p. 158 of his Lincoln biography David Herbert Donald writes, "Shortly after Tad's birth, when young Mrs. Charles Dallman was sick and unable to nurse her newborn infant, Mary breast-fed that baby along with her own."