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Pile of stones in a Ky mobile home park reveals link to legend of ‘Honest Abe - Anita - 10-29-2016 08:14 PM
This is from the Lexington Herald Reader Oct. 29, 2016
By Tom Eblen
teblen@herald-leader.com
"A small, abandoned cemetery in the middle of a mobile home subdivision off Tates Creek Road has been found to contain the family graves of the man who gave Abraham Lincoln some of his first jobs."
Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article111348312.html#storylink=cpy
RE: Pile of stones in a Ky mobile home park reveals link to legend of ‘Honest Abe - RJNorton - 10-30-2016 09:19 AM
Anita, thank you for posting this. If I am reading correctly, Denton Offutt's grave was not specifically found; still I am going to write the person who wrote the Find A Grave article.
RE: Pile of stones in a Kentucky mobile home park reveals link to legend - Gene C - 10-30-2016 09:29 AM
Interesting article that fills in some of the gaps that I wanted to know regarding Denton Offutt.
Thanks for spotting this one Anita.
Also a good link in the article to a book that I will be reading sometime in the near future,
"Lincoln and the Bluegrass" by William Townsend
https://archive.org/details/lincolnbluegrass00town
RE: Pile of stones in a Ky mobile home park reveals link to legend of ‘Honest Abe - LincolnMan - 11-13-2016 08:06 AM
Very cool find. Thanks again for posting.