Dennis Hanks, a member of the Sparrow household and cousin of Abraham Lincoln, came also.

He has furnished some recollections of the President's boyhood which are well worth recording.

"Uncle Dennis," as he was familiarly called, was himself a striking character, a man of original manners and racy conversation.

A sketch of him as he appeared to an observer in his later days is thus given: "Uncle Dennis is a typical Kentuckian, born in Hardin County in 1799.

His face is sun-bronzed and ploughed with the furrows of time, but he has a resolute mouth, a firm grip of the jaws, and a broad forehead above a pair of piercing eyes.