Wilson, Douglas L., ed; Davis, Rodney O., ed. 'Register of Informants' in 'Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements About Abraham Lincoln' . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. [format: book], [genre: history]. Permission: University of Illinois Press
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Matilda Johnston was AL's stepsister and nearly his age. They lived in the same family circle from 1819 until her marriage to Squire Hall, a half-brother of Dennis Hanks, in 1826. After her husband's death she married Reuben Moore. She was living with her mother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, in Coles County, Illinois, at the time of AL's last visit in 1861. (Coleman; HCC)