President Abraham Lincoln was a great man. He had four children. Robert Lincoln, Edward Lincoln, Willie Lincoln and Tad Lincoln. The only son to survive to adulthood was Robert Lincoln. Robert was a presidential death magnet. He was close to three presidential deaths. His father, those of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley. Lincoln's birth mother was Nancy Lincoln. He died of milk sickness in the Little Pigeon Creek settlement in Spencer County on October 18, 1818, when Abraham was nine years old. She was married to Abraham's father, Thomas Lincoln, from 1806 until his death. A year after her death, Thomas moved his family to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. There he proposed to Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow he had known for many years. On December 2, 1819, they were officially declared married. Abraham became very close to his stepmother. “Sarah has provided a refreshing new family life for both Lincoln children. Although Sarah herself was illiterate, she appears to have strongly encouraged Abraham's study habits. She told William Herndon that "Abe was the best guy she had ever seen" and that he "never gave her an angry look or word." Furthermore, he tried to persuade Thomas Lincoln to look more kindly on Abraham's reading habits. His influence on Abraham was excellent and the two began to love each other. “Lincoln was the first president of many different categories. For example, he was the first president to be assassinated. He was the tallest president at 6'4”. He was the first president to have a beard. He was also a kind of of medium. Exactly one week before his death, President Lincoln dreamed of someone crying in the White House. When he found the room, he looked in and asked... in the middle of the paper... they were two men. When Garrett said he didn't know nothing of the presence of men there, they said, "Let's hang the old man and see if it will refresh his memory." Garrett fell over to the tobacco barn and set it on fire. Herold surrendered and was tied to a nearby tree in so that he could not escape. As for Booth, he would not surrender. As the fire intensified, a sergeant shot Booth in the neck, presumably, because he had raised his gun as if to shoot. Booth was brought to Richard Garrett's porch and remained there for about 3 hours until, finally, he died. Four of Booth's co-conspirators, Mrs. Surratt, Powell, Atzerodt, and Herold were all hanged on July 7, 1865. Dr. Mudd, O'Laughlen, and Arnold were sentenced to life imprisonment, while Edmand "Ned" Spangler, a Ford's stagehand, convicted of helping Booth escape from the theater, was sentenced to six years in prison.