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Sarah Bush Lincoln

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The Resume

    (December 13, 1788-April 12, 1869)
    Born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky
    Birth name was Sarah Bush
    Stepmother of Abraham Lincoln
    Married to first husband, Daniel Johnston, from 1806 to 1816
    Married widower Thomas Lincoln in 1819 (married until his death in 1851)

Why she might be annoying:

    Her home is a tourist attraction.
    She married Thomas Lincoln despite his being ten years her senior (which for the time actually wasn't that huge of a gap).
    Thomas reportedly proposed to her by merely walking up to her house, knocking on the door, and offering to pay off her debts if she married him. She accepted.
    She liked to joke that teenaged Abe (then six feet tall) needed to wash his hair or he'd leave prints on her ceiling.
    In response, Abe played a prank on her by having his friends come in and turning them upside down to make footprints on the ceiling. He claimed she laughed through her threats to spank him.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She encouraged Abe's education, even as her husband called it a waste.
    She remained close with Abe even as he became estranged from his father.
    She arguably had more to do with raising and molding Abe than his birth mom.
    Lincoln visited her periodically as President; an overnight visit on January 31, 1861 being the last time they would ever see each other.
    When she found out that Lincoln had been assassinated, she reportedly buried her head in her apron and cried: 'Oh my boy Abe; They've killed him. I knowed they would. I knowed they would.'
    She shared Mary Todd Lincoln's birthday.
    She's basically step-parent GOALS (getting your step-kid to trust and accept you without going 'you're not my mom!' and then he becomes President? Not bad!)

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


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