Coles County

He won everything there was in sprint car racing.

His son, Owen, just won over Coles County.

I don't know if you guys saw the videos, but sly job.

This Owen.

At the time of her second marriage, she was residing at Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

she proved a good mother to Abraham, and is still residing in Coles County, Illinois.

He soon conceived a filial attachment for her, which ever afterward continued.

Abraham achieved the art of reading before his own mother's death, and it may well be presumed that he did not permit this key to knowledge to become rusty in his keeping.

At the time of her second marriage, she was residing at Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

She proved a good mother to Abraham and is still residing in Coles County, Illinois.

He soon conceived a filial attachment for her, which ever afterward continued.

Abraham achieved the art of reading before his own mother's death, and it may well be presumed that he did not permit this key to knowledge to become rusty in his keeping.

Every person who helped kill him had a copy of the governor's order in their pockets.

Charleston, Illinois, in 1855, was the county seat of Coles County.

Platted on the tall grass prairie of East Central Illinois, organized around a courthouse square with a two-story brick courthouse at its center.

Hipped roof, arched entrances, a two-tiered cupola.

200 feet north of the bridge, a white oak tree stood in the open.

Nobody was thinking about that tree yet.

Nathan Ellington was the first county clerk of Coles County, Illinois.

The founding clerk, His name sat on the earliest legal documents the county ever produced.

At the time of her second marriage, she was residing at Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

she proved a good mother to Abraham, and is still residing in Coles County, Illinois.

He soon conceived a filial attachment for her, which ever afterward continued.

Abraham achieved the art of reading before his own mother's death, and it may well be presumed that he did not permit this key to knowledge to become rusty in his keeping.

Mm-mm-mm.

The American Sprint Car Tour had a triple header Friday and Saturday at Paducah International Raceway and Sunday at Coles County, which was a fun mind warp going from the fastest track, highest speeds, I should say, at Paducah International Raceway to the smallest track.

We were freaking like 130 points off of gearing from one night to the other.

crazy.

Chad Freeman was in third place going into turn three and came out turn four down the front chute just to beat Trace and win.

He passed Mailer and Landis in turn three and four, which was pretty cool.

Coles County, which is an amazing track.

Hot Laps, Ricky Lewis was a First, qualifying Ricky Lewis, your Heat Race winners Mike Landis and Trace Maylor, and your top five in the feature at Coles County was Ricky Lewis, Trace Maylor, Mike Landis, John Gurley, and Colton Cottle, two USAC drivers.

At the time of her second marriage, she was residing at Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

She proved a good mother to Abraham, and is still residing in Coles County, Illinois.

He soon conceived a filial attachment for her, which ever afterward continued.

Abraham achieved the art of reading before his own mother's death, and it may well be presumed that he did not permit this key to knowledge to become rusty in his keeping.

Thomas Lincoln found, in less than a year, that his new home was the most unhealthy of all he had tried.

So he went westward again, moving to three new places until he settled at Goose Nest Prairie in Coles County, where he died at the age of seventy-three, as usual, in debt.

From the time of his death, and as he advanced in prosperity, Abraham aided his stepmother in many ways besides sending her money.

It was at Decatur that he made his first public speech, standing on a keg.

The truth was that the South had for four years unanimously determined to secede and was actually seceding, while the North, which had gone beyond the extreme limits of endurance and of justice itself to conciliate the South, could not believe that fellow countrymen and brothers seriously intended war.

For it was predetermined and announced by the Southern press that, unless the Federal government would make concessions beyond all reason and put itself in the position of a disgraced and conquered state, there must be war.

As the terrible darkness began to gather and the storm signals to appear, Lincoln sought for temporary relief in visiting his stepmother and other old friends and relatives in Coles County.

The meeting with her, whom he had always regarded as his mother, was very touching.