For the distaff side

[RJNorton]

Roger, this is the wrong thread, but your post reminded me of how astonished I was about Thomas Lincoln's and Nancy Hanks' wedding dinner, since he was always said to be poor.

Eva, there are probably other descriptions, but here is one. Dr. Christopher Columbus Graham, who attended the wedding, stated that the food included bear meat, venison, wild turkey and ducks, eggs, maple sugar strung on a string to bite off for coffee and whiskey, syrup in big gourds, peach and honey, and a sheep that two families barbecued over coals and wood burned in a pit.