Genetic Lincoln

[David Lockmiller]

The current matriarch of the family told the Park Service recently that ownership of the chair was weighing on her.

"All her friends told her she is crazy, that she should sell it on eBay," Swift said. "But she said that giving it to us felt like the right thing to do."

How very generous of the family, and especially the matriarch of the family!



The crown jewel of that tableau, however, remains out of reach for Swift.

"We'd love to have the rocker that President Lincoln was sitting in," she said, sighing.

It remains in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich.

The chairs should be together once again.

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On this subject, I think that Abraham Lincoln himself said it best:

"I don't know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know who his
grandson will be." A. Lincoln

I now disagree with myself. I think now that Lincoln would have liked to have known.