Lincoln's Mothers

[Gene C]

Written by Dorothy Clark Wilson, about 400 pages, copyright 1981.

I purchased this based on Rogers comment (post# 28)
http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...s#pid47912

I enjoyed it, but it was a bit slow in the beginning for me. The pace and my interest picks up once Thomas and Nancy get married (p. 70)
Well done historical fiction. A nice, leisurely read, the last 60 pages are a bit sad as Abraham has left home and it deals with Sara's (Sally) life with him having moved away, never meeting his wife or grandchildren.

This same author wrote "The Prince of Egypt" which is the basis for the Disney movie of the same name and the classic film "The Ten Commandments" with Charleton Heston, Yul Brynner and Ann Baxter

This is one of the $.01 books I have found, and there are still good copies available at that price.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385151...1_3&sr=8-3

[maharba]

I wonder what Abraham Lincoln's stepmother Sarah Johnson thought about his distant relations to his dad Thomas Lincoln. How much it bothered her that Lincoln didn't even bother coming to his own father's funeral? If Sarah knew who the actual father of Nancy Hanks Lincoln really was.

[RJNorton]

(11-03-2015 11:35 AM)maharba Wrote:  How much it bothered her that Lincoln didn't even bother coming to his own father's funeral?

It seems like it would, but the author writes that Sarah defended him. Dorothy Clarke Wilson says that Sarah felt Abraham was needed at home with a sick wife and a new baby, and that he was right to stay where he was needed the most.

[Eva Elisabeth]

AFAIK, Abraham Lincoln's father treated his (idle, according to A. L.) stepbrother John D. Johnston with greater affection than his own son whom he didn't wanted to be educated. And he never even positively commented on his son's career when he benefited therefrom by receiving financial support. Maybe Abraham Lincoln's stepmother could understand a little, too.

[maharba]

It seems like it would, but the author writes that Sarah defended him. Dorothy Clarke Wilson says that Sarah felt Abraham was needed at home with a sick wife and a new baby, and that he was right to stay where he was needed the most.

Reminiscent of Charles Darwin and several of his famous missing appearances. And there is a camp who lionize both Darwin and Lincoln, as they were born the same year. When Darwin's paper giving him scientific priority for The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection was being presented before some obscure London science group (Linnaean),
Charles Darwin never showed up but had his friends introduce copies of some letter he claimed to have sent to Alfred Wallace. Wallace they had presumed was dying of fever in the far pacific islands. But Darwin did have children gravely ill at that time. I think that child later died, too. Alfred Wallace recovered and lived on towards 90 years.