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 When Abraham was four years old, the Lincolns moved to a place on Knob Creek, six miles from Hodgenville.

Their plot of land was larger and more fertile than that on Nolin Creek. Of the two hundred and thirty-eight acres that comprised the new site, Thomas Lincoln cultivated six acres. The family's wants were few — their meals were frugal and until Abe was seven years old, he led a happy-go-lucky existence. Helping in the fields, strolling through the woods, learning the beauties of nature at nature's threshold.

His early education was such as was gleaned from irregular sessions at the "country school house."