... tragedy in his life. On October 5th his mother died of Brucellosis or more commonly "milk sickness" (27). It was hard for Abraham and his older sister, Sarah, to deal with. Dennis Hanks, their Uncle, moved in to help Thomas raise his two kids. Dennis was like a second father figure in their life. It was Dennis, not Thomas, who taught Abraham to read, write, and farm (31). Thomas traveled back to Kentucky to find a wife and mother for his children in 1820. He did so when he married the widowed mother Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. Abraham and Sarah were very close. They stuck together while Thomas would have to make trips for supplies into town and would be gone for days at a time (43). In 1830 Lincoln attended school from time to time, worked in the farm fields, and read whenever he got the chance. That ...

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