Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

[RJNorton]

Thank you, Eva! Here's one more I like. It's from p. 159 of Francis Marion Van Natter's Lincoln's Boyhood: A Chronicle of His Indiana Years. The event happened on March 8, 1830, as the Lincolns moved from Indiana to Illinois.

"The Lincoln-Hall-Hanks caravan drove down onto the ferry and crossed the Wabash from Indiana into Illinois. The river was so high that water covered the road and the low prairie. Abe picked up his little dog, Honey, and climbed into one of the wagons, but Honey jumped out, fell on a thin sheet of ice, broke through and was drowning. Abe leaped into the waist-deep water and seized the feist. "I saved him," he said. The oxen, breasting the icy flood waters, leaned hard against their yokes, and resumed pulling the Lincolns towards John Hanks and the Promised Land."