Abraham Lincoln highlighted his aunt in an autobiographical sketch written for his political campaign.
In this sketch, he highlighted his ancestry and extended relatives including Mary Lincoln, the eldest of his father's sisters.
[2] While he was president, he mentions his Uncle Ralph and Aunt Mary again in a letter to a cousin, Susana Weathers, thanking her for a pair of socks.
He built her a corner cabinet for her dishes which now resides in the Brown-Pusey House Museum in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
At age 6, her parents sold their land and the family moved to Jefferson County, Kentucky.