Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

[RJNorton]

Thank you, Toia and Joe. In the future I think I will now be able to reply to students in a more meaningful way. It concerns me that so many teachers seem to be using an event that never occurred in their classrooms.

Not being really serious here, but maybe we wouldn't be discussing this if Abraham Lincoln was not so fond of onions. Louis Warren writes, "According to neighbors in Spencer County, she (Hannah Gentry) would have been Mrs. Lincoln, if Abraham had not been 'too fond of onions, as she could not endure them.' Hannah Gentry married John Romine on April 2, 1829."