Pile of stones in a Ky mobile home park reveals link to legend of ‘Honest Abe

[Anita]

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/count...rylink=cpy

[RJNorton]

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.

[Gene C]

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

[LincolnMan]

Very cool find. Thanks again for posting.