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RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-05-2023 11:32 AM
John D. Johnston?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 07-05-2023 04:39 PM
nope, not John D. Johnston.
Tremetone is involved
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 07-05-2023 06:07 PM
google is ok
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-06-2023 03:48 AM
Tom Sparrow?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 07-06-2023 03:56 AM
No, Roger, not Tom Sparrow . But you're circling around the answer.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 07-06-2023 05:38 AM
This man has not been mentioned on the forum before. Does that help ? (sniggers, evilly)
This man and his wife would have known Thomas Lincoln well (obviously) and Thomas' wife.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Gene C - 07-06-2023 05:55 AM
James "Uncle Jimmy" Short ?
From Lincoln's New Salem days
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 07-06-2023 06:03 AM
No, Gene ... not James Short.
I'd suggest Google is a wonderful tool.
This man's wife and Abraham's "angel mother" both had the same first name.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-06-2023 08:08 AM
William Brumfield?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Rob Wick - 07-06-2023 12:46 PM
I will guess Robert Armstrong, whose wife was named Nancy.
Best
Rob
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 07-06-2023 06:38 PM
Some good names there to research, but no. Not the man I'm asking about.
Try thinking about Nancys' burials.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-07-2023 03:38 AM
Peter Brooner?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - AussieMick - 07-07-2023 05:28 AM
Well done, Roger. Yes Peter Brooner ( I think Ive seen it spelt Bruner but Brooner is the most common).
https://www.nps.gov/places/grave-site-of-nancy-hanks-lincoln.htm :
"Nancy Hanks Lincoln was the mother of Abraham Lincoln. She died when she was 35 of milk sickness on October 5, 1818. Abraham Lincoln was just 9 years old when his mother died. Nancy Lincoln was buried next to their closest neighbor, Nancy Rusher Brooner. Nancy Brooner had also become ill and died from milk sickness. Nancy Lincoln, took care of Nancy Brooner, but Nancy Brooner died two weeks before Nancy Lincoln died. Nancy's maternal aunt and uncle, Elizabeth and Thomas Sparrow, with whom she had grown up, also died of the illness and were buried nearby. The area became known as Pioneer Cemetery."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Lincoln :-
"Nancy Lincoln is buried next to Nancy Rusher Brooner, a neighbor who died a week before Nancy from milk sickness. Henry Brooner, Nancy Brooner's son and best childhood friend of Abraham Lincoln, later recalled, "I remember very distinctly that when Mrs. Lincoln's grave was filled, my father, Peter Brooner, extended his hand to Thomas Lincoln and said, 'We are brothers now', meaning that they were brothers in the same kind of sorrow. The bodies of my mother and Mrs. Lincoln were conveyed to their graves on sleds"
You are up early ... must have been got the answer in sleep.
I would have doen this post sooner but England-Australia cricket is on TV.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-07-2023 08:32 AM
(07-07-2023 05:28 AM)AussieMick Wrote: You are up early ... must have been got the answer in sleep.
I have to credit There I Grew Up: Remembering Abraham Lincoln's Indiana Youth by William E. Bartelt.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - RJNorton - 07-08-2023 05:54 AM
Dr. Ed Steers does not believe Nancy Hanks Lincoln died from milk sickness. What is the name of the disease that Dr. Steers feels she died from?
Hint: The answer is on this forum.