Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or, as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, material objects, or the like.
Abe Lincoln's mother died of milk sickness caused from â¦ drinking the milk of a cow that has grazed on the poisonous white snakeroot. Nancy Lincoln died at the age of 34 when Abe was 9.
Nancy Hanks died when Abe was just nine years old. His father remarried and he had a step-mother, Sarah Bush Johnston, that he was also very fond of and referred to as mother. Abraham Lincoln's birth parents were named Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. Nancy Hanks died when Abe was just nine years old. His father remarried and he had a step-mother, Sarah Bush Johnston, that he was also very fond of and referred to as mother.