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On May 1, 1844, Abraham, Mary, and nine-month-old Robert moved into a little house on the corner of Eighth and Jackson street at the eastern edge of Springfield, in a rapidly growing community that was home to immigrants from Ireland, Germany, France, and the Madeira Islands, Portugal, as well as free African Americans and families from more than ten different states, all seeking to build their lives on the central Illinois prairie. The neighborhood had houses, barns, and other outbuildings, streets that were much wider and often filled with dust or mud, many dialects, languages, and accents, a variety of ethnic foods, music from home parlors, and the constant movement of a vibrant and diverse community. The Remann family were close friends of the Lincoln family, and Josephine Remann, called Lincoln's favorite and almost a stand-in daughter, later moved with her husband into the Lincoln Home in 1897 as custodians and remained there caring for the home until her death in 1918.
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