Mary Lincoln Extra Credit Questions

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Laurie, he was a poor little mite. They were neighbours in Springfield. His mother, Harriet, gave birth to him not long after Tad was born. She was very ill and could not feed him herself so Mary Lincoln offered to 'wet nurse' him. Unfortunately he did not live to adulthood.

( I sourced my story form "Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood" by Bonnie E Paull and Richard E. Hart)

Thanks for edumacating me. I haven't heard the term "wet nurse" in years. My mother needed a wet nurse for the first year or so of her life back in 1914.