Boy done youse guys realize it's " Honest Abez " Birfday???

[wondersofwine]

I'm related to his wife although with her reputation (spendthrift, difficult personality) I'm not sure that's to my credit. You have to sympathize with her though--loss of all but one son to disease, and assassination of her husband, shot while she was sitting next to him at the theater. And more recent historians have acknowledged her political acuity in Lincoln's early career. Anyway, she was a first cousin to one of my great-great grandmothers on my mother's side.

[This message has been edited by wondersofwine (edited 02-12-2009).]