Thomas and Sarah Lincoln Gravesite

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John Jake Gordon, one of the first settlers in Pleasant Grove Township, set aside one and a half acres of his privately owned land for a cemetery sometime in the late 1830s. Thomas Lincoln was buried in the Gordon Graveyard in 1851, and his wife, Sarah Bush Lincoln, was buried next to him in 1869. Abraham visited his father’s grave in January of 1861 when he bid farewell to his family on his way to assume the presidency in Washington. Today the cemetery is known as the Thomas Lincoln Cemetery.