This entire story has been around for over 100 years. Back in the 1960s....a number of civil war professors got into comparing notes....and most would quietly agree that Abe’s basic story of the early years....is totally false. But why bring it up? It ruins the myth....does nothing to damage or improve his years in the White House...and becomes part of a soap opera situation if folks started talking about it.
Our entire perception of living in Americana in the early 1800s...is mostly wrong. When you toss in the strange behavior and cult-like actions of the Puritans...the acceptance of non-marriage relationships in the “west”, and then the widespread usage of alcohol throughout America....its not the image that we have today.
Cult-like actions of the Puritans? No bias there!