"He was naturally a man of considerable genius," says one who knew him.

"He was a man of great drollery.

It would almost make you laugh to look at him.

I never saw but one other man who excited in me the same disposition to laugh, and that was Artemus Ward.

Abe Lincoln had a very high opinion of his uncle, and on one occasion remarked that Uncle Mord had run off with all the talents of the family." Thomas Lincoln was twenty-eight years old before he sought a wife.