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Did Abraham Lincoln sleep here?
cbs ^ | Feb. 11, 2018 | cbs

Posted on 02/11/2018 11:40:26 AM PST by bgill

Visitors to a small log cabin in Kentucky are right to ask: Is it true that Abraham Lincoln slept here? On the eve of Lincoln's 209th birthday tomorrow, Brook Silva-Braga has the answer... "What we're trying to do is authenticate when this cabin was made by using the tree rings in the logs," he replied. Some say our 16th president, born in these hills in 1809, spent some of his childhood in this cabin at Knob Creek. But did he?... So no, Abraham Lincoln did not sleep here in the Knob Creek cabin … or in the "symbolic cabin" at his birthplace.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: 16thpresident; abrahamlincoln; brooksilvabraga; c14; dendrochronology; godsgravesglyphs; kentucky; knobcreek; lincolncabins; radiocarbondating; treerings
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To: BenLurkin

My 3rd great uncle used to ride circuit with him. I’m sure he had a lot of stories to tell his 15 children on cold Illinois nights.

Can you IMAGINE letting Abraham Lincoln loose on the Internet????? WOW!!!!!


21 posted on 02/11/2018 1:36:25 PM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

Lincoln was indeed the great father of glittering generalities.


22 posted on 02/11/2018 1:39:49 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Az Joe

Great grandfather’s memories of being called to DC to run the investigation for Stanton:

The gloom of that journey to Washington and the feeling of vague terror and sorrow with which I traversed its streets, I cannot adequately describe, and shall never forget. To this day, I never visit that City without some shadow of that dark time settling over my spirit. All the public buildings and a large portion of the private houses were heavily draped in black. The people moved about the streets with bowed heads and sorrow-stricken faces, as though some Herod had robbed each home of its first born.

When men spoke to each other in the streets, there were tremulous tones in their voices, and a quivering of the lips, as though tears and violent expression of grief were held back only by great effort. In the faces of those in authority — Cabinet ministers, officers of the army, — there was an anxious expression of the eye as though a dagger’s gleam in a strange hand was to be expected; and a pale determined expression, a set of the jaw that said: “The truth about this conspiracy shall be made clear and the assassins found and punished: we will stand guard and the Government shall not die.”

For no ruler who ever lived, I venture to say, not excepting Washington himself, was the love of the people so strong, so peculiarly personal and tender, as for Abraham Lincoln. Especially was this so among the soldiers; all members of the old army will remember with what devotion and patriotic affection the boys used to shout and sing, “We are coming, Father Abraham!” and will remember what a personal and confiding sort of relation seemed to exist between the soldier boys and “Uncle Abe”, and how those brave soldiers — veterans of four years of terrible war, inured to hardship, to sickness and wounds, familiar with the face of death — wept like little children when told that “Uncle Abe” was dead.


23 posted on 02/11/2018 1:48:26 PM PST by mairdie
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To: bgill

WONDERFUL story!


24 posted on 02/11/2018 1:49:45 PM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie; HarleyLady27
Wow, thank you for sharing this day before Lincoln's Birthday (and on Sarah Palin's birthday):

"Great grandfather’s memories of being called to DC to run the investigation for Stanton:

The gloom of that journey to Washington and the feeling of vague terror and sorrow with which I traversed its streets, I cannot adequately describe, and shall never forget. To this day, I never visit that City without some shadow of that dark time settling over my spirit. All the public buildings and a large portion of the private houses were heavily draped in black. The people moved about the streets with bowed heads and sorrow-stricken faces, as though some Herod had robbed each home of its first born.

When men spoke to each other in the streets, there were tremulous tones in their voices, and a quivering of the lips, as though tears and violent expression of grief were held back only by great effort. In the faces of those in authority — Cabinet ministers, officers of the army, — there was an anxious expression of the eye as though a dagger’s gleam in a strange hand was to be expected; and a pale determined expression, a set of the jaw that said: “The truth about this conspiracy shall be made clear and the assassins found and punished: we will stand guard and the Government shall not die.”

For no ruler who ever lived, I venture to say, not excepting Washington himself, was the love of the people so strong, so peculiarly personal and tender, as for Abraham Lincoln.

Especially was this so among the soldiers; all members of the old army will remember with what devotion and patriotic affection the boys used to shout and sing, “We are coming, Father Abraham!” and will remember what a personal and confiding sort of relation seemed to exist between the soldier boys and “Uncle Abe”, and how those brave soldiers — veterans of four years of terrible war, inured to hardship, to sickness and wounds, familiar with the face of death — wept like little children when told that “Uncle Abe” was dead."

25 posted on 02/11/2018 2:07:10 PM PST by Sontagged (Lord Jesus, please frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised in Your Word)
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To: Sontagged
GGF was one of the special judge advocates at the trial, and put together the Library of Congress records when it was over. Really exciting to have the microfilm in his handwriting.

http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/burnett/lincoln.htm



Please find and send me a boy called Slackman or Bushman connected with Ford's Theater, and the man Jake, the Carpenter at the Theater referred to by the boy Slackman in his statement to James P. Ferguson. Please attend to this at once.
Very Respy
Your Obt Svt
H.L. Burnett
Judge Advocate
26 posted on 02/11/2018 2:29:16 PM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

Very nice, “Father Abraham”. Thanks.


27 posted on 02/11/2018 3:07:44 PM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: mairdie

Very nice, “Father Abraham”. Thanks.


28 posted on 02/11/2018 3:07:45 PM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Az Joe

Yep, that looks like Teddy Roosevelt in the window.


29 posted on 02/11/2018 3:17:13 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Az Joe

It must have been the times. When I read one of his oral arguments before the Supreme Court I was shocked by the use of the word “Brother” to refer to opposing counsel.


30 posted on 02/11/2018 3:32:16 PM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

In those days, the language was eloquent and there was pride in penmanship.

Today, dey don’t know nuffin’ ‘bout dat dare cursive type writin’.


31 posted on 02/11/2018 6:29:35 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Old Yeller

Hey, dont be a smart ass. Confirmed several decades before you were squeezed out jackwagon.


32 posted on 02/11/2018 8:26:13 PM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks bgill. Ooh, fancy -- radiocarbon dating used!

33 posted on 02/12/2018 3:39:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Enchante

In fact, the tree rings can and do give an exact date, as well as age that the trees were cut.

Crossdating - The Basic Principle of Dendrochronology
www.ltrr.arizona.edu/lorim/basic.html
Crossdating is the most basic principle of dendrochronology. Crossdating is a technique that ensures each individual tree ring is assigned its exact year of formation. This is accomplished by matching patterns of wide and narrow rings between cores from the same tree, and between trees from different locations.
http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/lorim/basic.html


34 posted on 02/12/2018 8:49:11 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!�)
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To: ApplegateRanch

ahh, excellent point.... I wasn’t speaking from knowledge (obviously) and try not to do that!! I was thinking that they would not know independently when the logs were cut down, but of course they can compare with live trees of the same species in the local area to date the rings. Thanks.


35 posted on 02/12/2018 9:01:57 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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