Abe Lincoln

I have recently been reading about Abraham Lincoln who was the 16th president of the United States of America. He grew up in a small log cabin in Kentucky, it had now windows and the floor was dirt. His father Thomas Lincoln was a hard working farmer and had had little schooling. His mom on the the other hand Nancy Lincoln could read a little but she couldn't write. They were a poor family, and moved from small farm to small farm trying to get more money. When Abraham was 7 they moved to Indiana. Abraham Lincoln was a strong and tall boy for his age and he could chop wood as good as a grown man could. But when he killed a wild turkey he found he couldn't hunt because he couldn't kill anything. When he was nine years old his mother died and he was very sad. His dad couldn't take care of the children and earn money so he went and got a new wife, her name was Sarah Johnston and was a widow of three children. Abraham came to love her and became closer to her than to his own father. Abraham hadn't had real schooling and had only gone to an A,B,C school when you only learn the letters and don't know how to read. Sarah had brought books with her though and he soon learned how to read them and he memorized some passages in Shakespeare.