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An Awful Time for Children

by | Sep 12, 2009 | Inside History

“Fear on the Frontier” series: Childhood death from typhoid fever.
“My poor boy....God has called him home....It is hard, hard to have him die!” President Abraham Lincoln spoke these words shortly after he lost his 11-year-old son, William Wallace Lincoln. “Willie” died after a two-week febrile illness at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 20, 1862. Willie was said to have ridden his pony during inclement weather s


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