Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in a log cabin in the Kentucky wilderness. When be was a little boy his Grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War. He had a little sister by the name of Sarah. As he went to school he met a boy by the name of Austin. They instantly became friends more so best of friends. At first Abe wasn't allowed to go to school because he didn't have a good …showed first 75 words of 1187 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1187 total…Now he belongs to the ages." A funeral train carried the president's body back home to Springfield, Ill., where he lies buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Only after his death did the world come to realize Lincoln's greatness. He was a superb statesman, a firm idealist who would not be swayed from the right course of action, a man of kindly and brave patience, and a believer in what he called the "family of man."