Sarah bush lincoln biography

Stepmother of Abraham Lincoln (1788–1869)

Sarah Bush Lincoln (December 13, 1788 – April 12, 1869) was the second wife of Thomas Lincoln and stepmother of Abraham Lincoln. She was born in Kentucky to Christopher and Hannah Bush. She married her first husband, Daniel Johnston, in 1806, and they had three children.

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Daniel Johnston died in 1816, and in 1819, she married widower Thomas Lincoln, joining his family with her three children.

Early life

Sarah Bush was born December 13, 1788, in Hardin County, Kentucky, the third daughter to Hannah Davis (1745–1835) and Christopher Bush (1735–1813). Christopher Bush, a settler of Dutch ancestry, was a financially well-off slave patrol captain.^[1] Described as "a stirring, industrious man,"^[2] he owned more than two thousand acres of Kentucky land.^[3] The Bushes moved with their nine children to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, when Sarah was two years old.

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