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The Life and Hardships of Abraham Lincoln In the year 1809, the future sixteenth president and the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks was born, and was named Abraham after his grandfather. He was born into a one room log cabin in Kentucky made form logs and clay, and it sat right on the hard cold earth, with just a fireplace on one wall to keep them warm. In 1811, at the age of two, Abraham and his family moved to Knob Creek, where he first learned to plant, husk corn, hoe, chop wood, and build hearth fires. Abe's first schooling came at the age of six, when his older sister, Sarah, brought him to the schoolhouse two miles down the road, where he learned to read, write and do arithmetic. Because there were no close neighbors during his earlier years in life, Abe got used to being alone, though he did not mind because of his fondness of nature and the outdoors. Even his later years as a politician, did he remember his knowledge of nature and of the differences in the trees that he passed by in Washington. In December of 1816, Thomas Lincoln moved the family to the backwoods of Indiana, but to get there they had to cut a trail themselves out of the wilderness in order to reach their destination. In the autumn of 18
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