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Rural graveyard houses Lincoln kin PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 14 February 2006
LA HARPE, Ill., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A group of President Abraham Lincoln's cousins are buried in an obscure cemetery in rural Illinois. The St. Simon the Apostle Cemetery in La Harpe was forgotten after the Catholic church next to it moved away, the Chicago Tribune reported. Ten years ago, Jeff Thompson, a local man who had some time on his hands while out of work, spent a few months cutting back brush and cleaning headstones.

About 50 people are buried at the cemetery, as many as 12 of them Lincolns, descendants of the president's uncle, Mordecai Lincoln. Lincoln family letters credit Mordecai with saving the life of his brother, Thomas, when he was captured by Indians, allowing him to marry Nancy Hanks and father the future president.

The church only realized that it still owned the cemetery when someone found old records of burials there.

At the moment, the cemetery is cut off from the world, entirely surrounded by fields with no access road. Thompson has added a hand-made sign.

"I wouldn't mind being buried back here," Thompson said. "It's nice. You wouldn't be bothered at all."

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060213-074646-6444r
 
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