Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — GRAVE OF LINCOLN’S MOTHER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GRAVE OF LINCOLN’S MOTHER.

The Simple Stone Which Mnrka Her Last Resting Place. In traveling from St. Louis to Louisville, on the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railroad, a traveler passes almost unnoticed the small town of Lincoin, In Spencer County, in Southern Indiana. The place derives its name from the old homestead of Abraham Lincoln’s father, the farm lying half a mile or so from the railroad depot

The mother of the martyr President is burled here in a thickly wooded spot, within a stone’s throw of where once stood Lincoln’s father’s log cabin. A plain white tombstone, surrounded by a neat irqp fence, marks the place where her ashes lie. The tombstone has the following plain inscription: *»••*«**«, • NANCY HANKS LINCOLN, * • • • Mother of President Lincoln. * • * • ': e *Oct 5, A. D. 1818. • • * • Age 35 years. * • • A part of the old homestead and outbuildings still remain, with a few fence rails scattered here and there in the fields. The main building has been torn down for some time, and It has been a great many years since the cabin was occupied. Relic seekers would scarcely think of stopping oft at Lincoln to find anything of interest Very few persons, outside of the few hundred inhabitants of Lincoln, know where the grave Is located, and the place has very few visitors. Attention has been called to the place.lately by a movement which is on foot ip have a fine monument erected on '<he*site, but as nothing definite has been done.

THE GRAVE OF LINCOLN'S MOTHER.