Extra Credit Questions
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07-07-2023, 05:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2023 05:31 AM by AussieMick.)
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Well done, Roger. Yes Peter Brooner ( I think Ive seen it spelt Bruner but Brooner is the most common).
https://www.nps.gov/places/grave-site-of...incoln.htm : "Nancy Hanks Lincoln was the mother of Abraham Lincoln. She died when she was 35 of milk sickness on October 5, 1818. Abraham Lincoln was just 9 years old when his mother died. Nancy Lincoln was buried next to their closest neighbor, Nancy Rusher Brooner. Nancy Brooner had also become ill and died from milk sickness. Nancy Lincoln, took care of Nancy Brooner, but Nancy Brooner died two weeks before Nancy Lincoln died. Nancy's maternal aunt and uncle, Elizabeth and Thomas Sparrow, with whom she had grown up, also died of the illness and were buried nearby. The area became known as Pioneer Cemetery." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Lincoln :- "Nancy Lincoln is buried next to Nancy Rusher Brooner, a neighbor who died a week before Nancy from milk sickness. Henry Brooner, Nancy Brooner's son and best childhood friend of Abraham Lincoln, later recalled, "I remember very distinctly that when Mrs. Lincoln's grave was filled, my father, Peter Brooner, extended his hand to Thomas Lincoln and said, 'We are brothers now', meaning that they were brothers in the same kind of sorrow. The bodies of my mother and Mrs. Lincoln were conveyed to their graves on sleds" You are up early ... must have been got the answer in sleep. I would have doen this post sooner but England-Australia cricket is on TV. “The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns |
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