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THE BURIAL PLACES of the LINCOLNS Memorial Day, with Ito Patriotic Brumfield, and Is Buried in the Mill Cabin Site L~N COLN LORE Bulletin of the Lincoln National Lif• Foundation - - - - - - - Dr. Loui• A. Warren, Editor. Published each week by The Lineoln National Life Insurance Company, of Fort Wayne, Indiana. ~0. 268 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA May 28, 1934 THE BURIAL PLACES OF THE LINCOLNS Memorial Day, with ito patriotic Brumfield, and is buried in the Mill cabin site. Her grave was marked and military aspects coming down Creek Churchyard. Her grave has re­ originally with a l;imple, rough hcad­ irom the Civil War period, after the cently been identified by descendants ~Stone, but, on ~:lemorial Day, 1916, a passing of the Grand Army of the of Mrs. Brumfield, whose burial place tombstone was erected bearing the fol­ Republic, wiU more and more become is marked with a stone properly in­ lowing inscription: Decoration Day. scribed. The small stone on the grave SARAH LINCOLN I WIFE OF I \Vhile the participation in the anni· of the Widow Lincoln bears no in· AARON GRIGSBY I FEB. 10, 1807 I vcrsary by the World War veterans scription. The Mill Creek burial JAN. 20, 1828/ has in some measure revived the na· ground is twelve miles north of Eliza­ tiona] significance of the celcbrntion, bethtown and at least two miles from GORDON CEMETERY it is the "strewing of flowers" whleh the Elizabethtown - Louisville High­ Coles County, flHnois chnructeri~e::s the holiday more truly way. Lincoln's father and his stepmother than oratory and salutes. As such it REDMOND BURIAL GROUND occupy graves in the Gordon Cemetery has become a da)' of recognition for LaRue County, Kentucky at Shiloh Church, halfway between all the departed ones. It seems timely Just recently there has been di!W:ov­ the towns of Farmington and Janes­ in this issue of Lincoln Lore to point. ered, in the commun.lty where the Lin­ ville. The original monument on Tho· out the burial places o! the Lincolns. coins lived on Knob Creek, a private mas Lincoln's grave was erected May A close friend of the family, Isaac burial ground which is thought to con­ 7, 1880, by his grand•on, Robert Todd N. Arnold, states that Mrs. Abraham tain the body of Abrahom Lincoln'R Lincoln, and bore the foJiowine in· Lincoln, in the month of October, infant brother, Thomas. A stone with scription: 1874, related the following incident to the inscription "T. L.'' was un­ THOMAS LINCOLN/FATHER OF him. She said she had been to City earthed, and e\oidence points strongly I THE MARTYRED PRESIDENT I Point and Richmond wlt,h Mr. Lincoln, to tho fact that it marks the grave of BORN/JAN. 6, 1778/DIED/JAN. 15, just a few dayR before his assassina4 1.'homas and Nancy Lincoln's young· 1851/ lion, and they were driving along the est child. The cemetery is seven miles In 1924 another monument replaced James River when they came to an old north of Hod~enville on the road lead­ the original and bears this inscription: country graveyard. She described it ing to Bardstown. THOMAS AND SARAH BUSH as "a retired place, shaded with trees, LINCOLN I 1778-1851-1788-1869 I and early spring flowers were opening TIJE CENOTAPH FATHBR AND STEPMOTHER OF on nearly every grave. It waa so quiet OUR MARTYRED PRESIDENT I and attractive that they stopped the And 110 th~y buried Llncol~t 1' Stran~ and vain I lla• any creatur-e thcmcht of Un~ln hie!: THEIR HUMBLE BUT WORTHY carria~c and walked through it. Mr. In any ''auh, ' Nt-at.h any ~lfln·lld. HOME/GAVE THE WORLD/ ABRA­ Lincoln seemed thoughtful and im­ In "II the yeara •ince that wild Sprlnl' of pal.n? 'TI• fai.H -he neHr ln the a rave hath lala. HAM LINCOLN/Erected by the Lions pressed. Be said: 'Mary, you are You could nor bury '-1m allhoul'h 701.1 •ltd Clubs of the State of Illinois/ younger than I. You will survive me. l'vou hi• lap the Chi'Opa pyn.mld When I am gone, lay my remains in Or beap.ed It with the I{Oclc7 Mount:alD cbaln. OAK RIDGE CEMETERY J~nc.•s T. ~lcKoy, C,.ntury Magcu·h\.t, some quiet place like this.', Februft1')', JC!tO. Springfield, Illinois The members of the Lincoln fam­ Mrs. Lincoln against much opposi· ilies are for the most part buried in tion followed out the P<esidenrs wish obscure spots voithdrMvn from the NANCY HANKS ME.ltORIAL PARK that he should be buried in a quiet usual avenues o! travel, such as the Spencer County, Indiana place. Although his tomb has now be­ place admired by the President. Lincoln's mother lies buried on the come the mecca of thousands of pil­ crest of a hill in whnt must have been grims annually, Oak Ridge Cemetery, LONG RUN CE~IETERY a neighborhood cemetery about one~ in 1866, was a new and little-fre­ Jefferson County, Kentucky quarter of a mile south of the Lincoln quented burial ground. The President's Abraham Lincoln, lfl'Sndfathcr of cabin site. The first inscribed marker body was placed in the receiving vault the President, was m&.s!:iacred by the on the grave was placed there by P. E. at the cemetery on May 4, 1865, but Indians in May, 1786, \vhilc working Studebaker on November 27, 1879. It in Decem her was moved to a more on hi;; 4004 acreo far-m in J effcrson bears the following inscription: permanent vault, finally being placed County, Kentucky. Tradition claims NANCY HANKS/LINCOLN/ in the Lincoln Tomb September 19, that his body lies buried in an un· MOTHER OF PRESIDENT I LIN­ 1871. In tho remodeled tomb, dedi­ marked grave in the cemetery of the CO!.N/DIED/OCTOBER 5 A.D. 1818/ cated on June 17, 1931, nrc deposited Lon~ Run Baptist Church, where n AGED 35 YEARS/Erected by a friend the bodies of Abraham Lincoln; his Jog me ·ting house h3d heen er<"ctcd on of her n>nrtyred son 1879/ wife, Mary Todd Lincoln; and three the Lincoln tract of land when the The burial ~round and adjacent of his four children, Edward, \Villie, place was first settled. This cemetery acres have been made into a state and Thomas. is ubout eighteen miles from Louis· park situated adjacent to Lincoln City ville. just north of where the Louis­ ARLINGTON NATIONAL ,,iHc-l.exington Road crosses the in Spencer County. CEMETERY stream known as Long Run. PIGEON CITURCH CEMETERY The only child of Abraham Lincoln Spencer County, Indiana to reach maturity was Robert Todd MILL CREEK CEMETERY The only sister of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln whose body lies in the Arlin~­ Hardin County, Kentucky Snrah Lincoln Grigsby, was one of the ton National Cemetery. He served as The vddow of the Pioneer Lincoln, first to be buriod in the cemetery of secretary of war under two presidents Bathsheba Lincoln, passed away at the Pigeon Church, which is situated about and was a United States minister to home of her daughter, Nancy Lincoln one mile southeast of the Lincoln Great Britain. He died July 26, 1926. .
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