Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1916 — Shaft Dedicated at Grave Of Sarah Lincoln Grigsby. [ARTICLE]

Shaft Dedicated at Grave Of Sarah Lincoln Grigsby.

- Kookport, Ind., June- 20.—Dedication of a monument erected over the grave of Sarah Lincoln Grigsby, a sitser of Abraham Lincoln, took place this morning in Nancy Hanks Park at Lincoln City, Ind., where the mother of Lincoln is buried. The grave of Sarah Grigsby is in the Pigeon Creek Baptist cemetery, a mile away, but the ceremony was conducted in the park because of the weather. Several thousand persons attended. The monument is a plain granite shaft, bearing the following inscription: “Sarah Lincoln, wife of Aaron Grigsby—Feb. 10, 1807—Jan. 20, 1828.” ' The principal address was delivered by Fred VanNuys, of Indianapolis. Gov. Ralston also was to have spoken but found it impossible to come. Jesse W. Weik, of Greencastle, secretary of the Lincoln Route Commission, read a history of the monument, and Max Ehrmann, of Terre Haute, recited an original poem entitled “Sarah Lincoln.” An interesting talk was given by Mrs. Bartly Inco, 79 years old, of Rockport, whose father, James Grigsby, was the youngest brother of Aaron Grigsby, the hus-. band of Sarah GrigSby. She spoke of “Family Traditions.” The movement for a suitable monument over the grave of Sarah Grigsby took form last February when Jesse W. Weik of Greencastle and Joseph M. Cravens of Madison, members of -the-commission, appointed by Gov. Ralston to locate the” route"of “the Lincoln family in its passage across Indiana from Kentucky and Illinois. They visited the graves of Aaron and Sarah Grigsby, which were marked by a sandstone marker on which the lettering had become undecipherable. Through their efforts a fund of nearly SSOO was raised for the purchase of a monument. The dedication had been set for Memorial Day but was postponed because of delay in shipment of the stone from the quarries at Bennington, Vt. Among the persons who attended the dedication was Mrs. Alonzo Griffith, in whose family is a book covered with deer skin which contains the names of the early members of Pigeon Creek Baptist church, including Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham Lincoln.