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Correction, Elizabeth Sears and Martin Estep's only surviving child was named Lawrence Estep, not Lawrence Sears. His full name was Lawrence Constantine Estep, b. 7 Sep 1861 in Walker's Grove, Mason County, Illinois.
I also forgot to mention that Henry and Vashti's first two children, Harriett Sears b. 1831 and John Sears b. 1835 were born in New Salem in Sangamon County, Illinois. New Salem was mostly abandoned by 1840, with most moving into nearby Petersburg or Springfield, just a few miles away. In 1839 Menard County was formed out of Sangamon County, which included the New Salem area, and the rest of their children were born in Menard County before they moved to Crane Creek, Mason County, Illinois. It may well be that Henry and Vashti had children born between Harriett and John who were also lost to the typhoid epidemic of 1835 in New Salem and it would be interesting to check the cemetery records there.
Lincoln arrived in New Salem in 1831 when he was 22 years old by way of a flatboat and stayed for about six years. As he was unmarried, he often boarded with the local families of New Salem and performed odd jobs for them. Lincoln was close to the same age as Henry and Vashti Sears, and since there were only 20 to 25 families in the area at the time, of course they would have been well acquainted with him.
It would be interesting to visit New Salem, as the town has been re-constructed as close to original as possible and placed on the National Register of Historic Places due to Lincoln's 1831 homestead there.
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