A biography of Abraham Lincoln

By Abigail (age 6)
 

One day Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. They already had a little girl named Sarah, and a cousin Dennis. They lived in a little log cabin in Kentucky. The people said, "The name Abraham is too long. Abe is better."

When Abe was 9 years old and his family was living in Indiana, his mother died. His father went back to Kentucky and brought back a new mother for Abe and Sarah. Her name was Sarah Johnston Lincoln. She was old and pretty nice. She had already three children.

Abraham Lincoln had school at home. He went to school in a schoolhouse just a little. One of his teachers was named Mr. Riney. Abe learned math in school and at home. He did his homework on a fire shovel with a burnt stick. Abe liked to read a lot. One of the books he read was Pilgrim's Progress.

Abe liked to play jokes on people. One day he got some kids to put their feet in a mud puddle. He carried them back to the house and held the children upside down one at a time and walked them across the ceiling. Their muddy feet left muddy footprints. When his mother saw it, she said that she ought to spank him, but she didn't.

Abe worked in a post office in Springfield, Illinois. He also worked as a lawyer.

He married Mary Todd in 1842. Her last name became Lincoln.

In 1861 he became America's 16th president. He worked in the White House and was one of the most important men in the country. Nothing important happened while he was president, but there was a sad war called the Civil War.  Shortly after the war ended, he was shot by John Wilkes Booth while he watched a play at Ford's Theater. Abraham Lincoln died the next day.
 

The End
 
 

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