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.
While Abraham Lincoln was alive he had two sons that died as children. The first was Edward or 'Eddie' who died of what was listed as consumption. He was the second son of Abrâ¦aham and Mary Todd Lincoln and died on February 1st, 1850. Their second son to die was William or 'Willy'.