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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 1. (search)
o his illustrious descendant was never able to establish the fact or trace his lineage satisfactorily beyond the first generation which preceded him. He never mentioned who his maternal grandfather was, if indeed he knew. His paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, They [the Lincolns] were also called Linkhorns. The old settlers had a way of pronouncing names not as they were spelled, but rather, It seemed, as they pleased. Thus they called Medcalf Medcap, and Kaster they pronounced Custard. --Ms. letter, Charles Friend, March 19, 1866. the pioneer from Virginia, met his death within two years after his settlement in Kentucky at the hands of the Indians; not in battle, as his distinguished grandson tells us, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. The story of his death in sight of his youngest son Thomas, then only six years old, is by no means a new one to the world. In fact I have often heard the President describe the tragedy as he had inheri