You are John A.Breckenridge.I used to walk thirty-four miles a day to hear you plead law in Booneville, and listening to your speeches at the bar first inspired me with the determination to be a lawyer.'" Lincoln's love for his gentle mother, and his grief over her untimely death, is a touching story.

Attacked by a fatal disease, the life of Nancy Hanks wasted slowly away.

Day after day her son sat by her bed reading to her such portions of the Bible as she desired to hear.

At intervals she talked to him, urging him to walk in the paths of honor, goodness, and truth.

At last she found rest, and her son gave way to grief that could not be controlled.