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Kentucky Color: Nancy Hanks Lincoln By Billy Joe Fudge On October 5th, 1818, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, died of milk sickness. Abraham was just nine years old. Little was known about milk sickness to our early settler forefathers. In the Midwest and Upper South, some of their nursing lambs, calves and foals during late summer and early fall, along with many settlers, would get sick and often die. According to some reports, an unidentified Shawnee woman pointed out to Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby that White snakeroot was poison. Ms Bixby, who was a midwife and a reported frontier doctor, researched and found that the milk and meat of animals that had consumed White snakeroot was apparently poison. As in this scene near Subtle in Metcalfe County, White snakeroot is most often found growing in forest openings, along forest edges and in forested areas with filtered sunlight. With summer food sources of grazers drying up and disappearing in late summer, the young tender growth of this plant was a tempting, fresh meal for our pioneer forefathers' animals. This story was posted on 2025-10-04 10:21:37
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