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Abraham Lincoln had four children with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln — Robert, Edward, William, and Thomas. Robert Todd Lincoln was the eldest of Abraham Lincoln’s sons. He was born on the 1st of August, 1843. He was the only one of Abraham’s children to survive into adulthood.
23 giu 2015 · THE FOUR SONS OF ABRAHAM AND MARY TODD LINCOLN - Malibu, CA - The photo is of Willie Lincoln. The son who died in 1862 at age 11 while Lincoln was President. Abe didn't return to work for 3 weeks.
- Father: Thomas
- Mother: Nancy Hanks Lincoln
- Sister: Sarah
- Stepmother: Sarah Bush Lincoln
- Wife: Mary Todd Lincoln
- Son: Robert
- Son: Edward
- Son: William ‘Willie’
- Son: Thomas ‘Tad’
- Mary Lincoln’s Confederate relatives
Thomas Lincoln, a homesteading farmer and sometime cabinet maker, chose to raise his family on the harsh Midwest frontier. A stern father who was likely illiterate, Thomas never fully understood Abraham’s desire to further his education and reprimanded his son for reading instead of tending to chores. Thomas never met his daughter-in-law, Mary Todd...
A Virginia native, Nancy moved to Kentucky, where she married Thomas Lincoln and gave birth to their three children: Sarah, the eldest; Abraham, the middle child; and Thomas, who died in infancy. Lincoln called his mother, a tall, slender woman with black hair, “highly intellectual by nature,” with a “strong memory” and “acute judgment.” In 1816, t...
After Nancy’s death in 1818, the burdens of keeping house fell to Lincoln’s 11-year-old sister Sarah. Like her brother, Sarah—who went by “Sally”—was intelligent, had a keen sense of humor and a gift for putting people at ease. When 19-year-old Abe received news that his older sister had died in childbirth at the age of 20, he buried his face in hi...
In 1819, Thomas Lincoln returned to Kentucky to propose marriage to Sarah Bush, whom he’d known earlier. Nearly 10 years his junior, Sarah accepted and moved with him to Thomas’s Indiana farm. Suddenly, Abraham had three new half-siblings: Elizabeth, Matilda and John. Sarah recognized young Abe's intelligence, encouraged him to better himself and t...
Born into a large, prosperous Lexington, Kentucky family, Mary Todd Lincolnlost her mother at age 6. Her strict stepmother later sent her away to school, where she received an elite education, studying French and the humanities. In 1839 in Springfield, Illinois, she met Lincoln—“a poor nobody then.” Three years later, after a stormy courtship and a...
Lincoln’s eldest son—the only one to live to adulthood, marry and have a family of his own—left an impressive legacy. A graduate of Harvard’s class of 1864 and an officer on Ulysses Grant’s staff in the waning days of the Civil War, Robert later served as Secretary of War under two presidents and a minister to England. Studious and inquisitive, Rob...
The cries of a grief-stricken Mary Lincoln echoed throughout the family’s house in Springfield when 3-year-old Edward died, likely of tuberculosis. The Lincolns’ second child was named for Edward Baker, a friend and politician who would become a U.S. Army officer during the Civil War. Edward originally was buried in Springfield. In December 1865, h...
Willie Lincoln could be rambunctious like younger brother Tad—who was known for pulling pranks in the White House—but he was also studious and thoughtful. In October 1861, following the wartime death of Baker, the 10-year-old submitted a poem about the soldier to a local newspaper. In February 1862, Tad and Willie fell ill with typhoid fever. Tad r...
Lincoln nicknamed his youngest child "Tad" because he was “wriggly as a tadpole" as a baby. As a youngster, Tad spoke with a lisp, probably because of a cleft palate. Impulsive and mischievous, Tad was “idolized by both his father and mother, petted and indulged by his teachers, and fawned upon and caressed by the noisome horde of office-seekers wh...
Mary’s brother George R.C. Todd and three half-brothers (Alexander, David and Samuel Todd) all served in the Confederate Army. Samuel fell at Shiloh, Alexander at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. David was wounded at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Southern newspapers castigated Mary, a native of border state Kentucky, following Samuel’s death on April 5, 1862. “It...
Four children, all boys, were born to the Lincolns. Edward Baker was nearly 4 years old when he died, and William Wallace (“Willie”) was 11. Robert Todd, the eldest, was the only one of the children to survive to adulthood, though Lincoln’s favorite, Thomas (“Tad”), who had a cleft palate and a lisp, outlived
20 feb 2023 · She and Abraham Lincoln had four sons, with only 1 surviving to adulthood. Her children's death would be a constant struggle for her. Children: Robert Todd Lincoln (1843 - 1926) - He was the sole surviving son of Abraham Lincoln and a political force during his day
“During the first year of the administration the house was made lively by the games and pranks of Mr. Lincoln’s two younger children, William and Thomas,” wrote Lincoln aide John Hay. “The two little boys, aged eight and ten, with their western independence and enterprise, kept the house in an uproar.
Thomas Lincoln was born on April 4, 1853, the fourth son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. His three elder brothers were Robert (1843–1926), Edward (1846–1850), and William (1850–1862).
