Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

Brilliant, Gene! On October 5, 1818, Nancy Hanks Lincoln passed away at the age of 34. In later years, Abraham would recall helping to carve pegs for his mother's coffin. Thomas Lincoln hauled the coffin, which was made of green pine, on a sled to the top of a thickly wooded hill and buried Nancy without a formal funeral service. Several months later, the Reverend David Elkins preached a funeral sermon above Nancy's grave.

Source of image: page 60 of The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fisher Browne.

Abraham Lincoln would have been nine and a half years old at the time.