LI~C()L~ No.7 F ORT WAYNE, May 27, 1929

ing as House Joint Resolution No. 25: tlve grandchildren and her two sons­ Linroln Lore "Whereas, The People of the State of in-law. lf we include her second hus­ Bull~tin of the , ever mindful of their deep band, Thomas Lincoln, as a member of UNCOLN HISTORICAL RESEARCH aJld lasting obligation to Abraham the Johnston clan, we place Abraham FOUNI)ATION Lincoln ... therefore be it, Lincoln all alone in this group con· Loui.t A. Wan-en Edbor "Resolved, That the board of trus­ sisting of: tees of the Illinois State His torical Thomas Lincoln, age 54 TIU1 6ulledn f.f no' tQPFrltbh~d. but item.s utcd Would be cred1tcd to Lib1·ary, be and they are hereby re· Sarah J ohnston Lincoln, age 42 Tbe Lincoln ~tiooal LH• ll*ltflnct Co. quested to make the necessary in· , age 21 Pu.blt.he,.. vestiga tions to determine the exact John D. Johnston, age 15 route traveled by Abraham Lincoln in Dennis F. Hanks, age 31 his removal f r o m Kentucky to Elizabeth Johnston Hanks, age 28 P ILGRIMAGES Illinois . . . " John Hanks, age 8 Charles fl. Rammelkamp and Otto Sarah Hanks, age 7 The journey to Mecca, which ovrry L. Schmidt, acting for the library, ap­ Nancy Hanks, 8ge 5 follower of Mohammed aspired to pointed Evarts B. Green to take make at least once in his lifetime, was Harriet Hanks, age 4 often frought with many hardsltips. charge of the investigation. lltr. Squire Hall, age ? The modern pilgrim, who plans to Green secured the services of Charles Matilda JohJlston Hall, age 19 visit the shrines of Abraham Lincoln M. Thompson, of the University of John Hall, age 2 in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, soon lllinois, to undertake the detail work. will have the joy of riding over a The results of his fi ndings were first LINCOLN MEMORIAL HIGH­ super· highway which will connect published by the llliJlois State Library WAY HIGHLIGHTS these points. This new pavement will tn 1918, and the complete report, Connects the North and the South. follow the trail over which Li ncoln made to the House of Representa­ Approximately 300 miles of pave· moved from t he birthplace community tives, was published two years later. ment. in Kentucky to the scene of his boy­ This effort on the part of Illinois Western terminal in central Illinois. hood in Indiana, and thence to the was supplemented by the General Eastern terminal in central Ken­ Illinois country where he a rrived Assembly of the State of Indiana, who tucky. when twenty-one years of age, lived authorized the Governor to appoint "a Crosses two grea t rivers, the Ohio most of his life, and now Ues buried. commission to determine the route and the Wabash. The possibility of reaching all of through Indiana traveled by Abraham General direction from the eastern these memorial efforts on the same Lincoln and his father's family when terminal, 55 degrees northwest. day is going to be an added incentive they emigrated to Illinois in 1830. Thirteen states o! the union within for pilgrims to make the tri1> over Joseph M. C•·nvens o! Madison and a radius of 200 miles of the terminals. this contemplated highway. The Lin· Jeose W. Weik of G•·eencasUe made Second largest city in America less coins were on the road au .:aggregate the investigations and reported to than two hundred miles from the of three weeks, with their S