Abraham Lincoln’s Grandfather, Abraham Lincoln Sr.
(1744-1786)
“The
story of Abraham Lincoln and his immediate family begins and ends with a
tragedy.”
Louis A.
Warren
In
referring to his grandfather in a letter to Jesse Lincoln in 1854,
Abraham
Lincoln’s forty-two-year-old grandfather, Abraham Lincoln Sr., purchased a
four-hundred-acre tract near Hughes Station in eastern
In May
1786, Abraham Lincoln was putting in a crop of corn with his sons, Josiah,
Mordecai, and Thomas, when they were attacked by a small war party. He was
killed in the initial volley. Josiah ran to Hughes Station for help. Mordecai
and Thomas ran to the cabin, and Mordecai emerged with a rifle in time to kill
the Indian who was preparing to scalp his father. Men from Hughes Station
pursued the retreating Indians.
After
this attack, the
Postcard
showing a cabin where President Lincoln’s grandfather built his cabin in 1782,