Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Thomas Lincoln” in chapter 3, page 27 of William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik:

...xhtml1/strict"> and prompted him to leave for points further west. Early in October of the year 1818, Thomas and Betsy Sparrow fell ill of the disease and died within a few days of each other. Thomas Lincoln performed the services of undertaker. With his whipsaw he cut out the lumber, and with commendable promptness he nailed together the rude coffins to enclose the forms of the dead. The bodies were...
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Thomas Lincoln 599 535 1 1 0 user votes
Old Thomas Lincoln 9 9 1 1 0 user votes
Thomas Lincoln Casey 4 0 2 0 0 user votes
Elizabethtown Thomas Lincoln 2 2 0 0 0 user votes

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