SALLY BUSH.
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Both were good boys; but, I must say, both now being dead, that Abe was the best boy I ever saw. I did not want Abe to run for president; did not want him elected; was afraid somehow; and when he came down to see me after he was elected president, I still felt that something would befall Abe, and that I should see him no more."
She died soon after, and lies buried in an obscure grave, while the son whom she rescued from squalor, ignorance, and degradation, has a monument which pierces the skies. The much-maligned sisterhood of step-mothers might well combine to place a memorial over her tomb.
