Lincoln and His Father

[RJNorton]

Gene, I found a web page that says:

"Historians believe John Jake Gordon, one of the early settlers in the area, started the cemetery in the 1830s.

After Lincoln was assassinated, Baker’s grandparents helped raise money to purchase a limestone obelisk to replace the hand-carved markers over Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln’s grave.

Throughout the years, souvenir hunters chipped away pieces of the first stone monument, so the local Lion’s Club collected funds to erect the headstone currently delineating the Lincolns’ graves. The limestone marker was relocated near the entrance to the cemetery."

http://jg-tc.com/news/the-dead-are-not-s...98062.html