Lincoln's Birth

[Gene C]

Here is an unusual story published in 1936, you just have to read it for yourself.

AN OLD SLAVE'S TESTIMONY
Some years ago there lived in Washington County in the neighborhood of Beechland, an honourable and respected colored minister. He
had the following to say respecting the Lincolns:
"Many years ago when I went to Beechland to serve the church there, I heard my own people as well as the white folks talk about President Lincoln being born there. I remember one day when I was called to the home of a very old colored lady who lived near Simpsonville to pray for her when she was sick. She was near 100 years old. She told me many things about the early days. I distinctly re- member her saying with considerable feeling that when President Lincoln was born in a cabin near the Beech Fork she was sent by her mistress to nurse him. 'Little did I think/
she said, 'as I held that scrawny little babe in my arms, that one day he would set me free!

source - Lincoln in His Parents Home County
https://archive.org/stream/lincolninhisp...1/mode/2up

(the Beech Fork, is a small, 112 mile long rambling river that never gets closer to Lincoln's Birth site than 15 miles)

Strange how these stories get started.