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Lincoln is buried between two or more persons ÜSaid to be Hall & his wife1 on the one hand and Some Children on her left hand ÜThere are two hollows or sinks. Nat Grigsby & Richardson were with me at the time Ü they said this was the grave. Mrs Richardson Saw Mrs. Lincoln buried and says it is not the grave Üone of these sinks Ügraves crumbled in lies a few feet Ü10 feet ÜSouth of the other: Mrs is the southern one as I think from Dennis Hanks & A. Lincoln told me. Mrs Lincolns body Üher ashes lie just 15 feet west of a hollow hickory Stump & just 18 feet from ÜNE Üfrom a large white oak tree. After looking at the grave and Contemplating in Silence the mutations of things Üdeath Üimmortality ÜGod, I left, I hope, the grave, a better man Üat least if but for one moment
Went to Dennis Hanks old place ÜN.E from the grave yard about 3Ö4 of a mile
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just East of the old Lincoln farm about the Same distance. Got Silas Richardson Üan old friend of Abes: he came to Indiana in 1816 Üso did Lincoln. His mother Saw Mrs Lincoln buried; he went to the grave yard with us ÜNat & myself and made certain what was before doubtful: he agrees with Dennis Hanks & A Lincoln. Richardson Says old man & Mrs Sparrow ÜAbes Grand Father & Mother lie on one Side of Mrs Lincoln. 2 Bruners2 Üprobably children lie on the other side Ü or an old Lady and a child. Mrs Lincoln lies in the middle The grave is 6 feet from Said Shaved dogwood bush. Mrs Richardson is 83 years of age. Says that Mrs Lincolns grave lies 41Ö2 feet South of the one I say is the Correct one. Dennis Hanks ÜA Lincoln ÜSilas Richardson Üthe old lady's Son and myself agree to the place. I only go by recollection & what others say ÜMrs Richardson & her son go by what they saw Ü and Know. One Jno Richardson was the husband of old Mrs Richardson Ü& father of Silas Richardson. ÜThere is no fence around the grave Üno palings ÜEnclosures of any Kind Üno headboard
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no footboard to mark the Spot where Abm Lincoln's Mother lies ÜCurious
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and unaccountable is it not? All is a dense forest Ü wild and grand.
I then proceeded to old Saml Howells House ÜSouth of the grave yard about 1Ö2 m Üdrank out of a good Spring near the little pigeon meeting house out of which Abe had Kneeled and drank a thousand times. Spring close to the Corner of the old Howell farm Üpart of which is turned out wild again. I passed the Spring
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a little East ÜS.E Üup a small rise or swell in the ground and landed at the famous Meeting house, called the little Pigeon Meeting House. It is a Babtist Church now and probably was then, but was free to all Comers of all & Every distinction. The House is a two is a two Storie one entrance, but one inside: it was intended to let the Choir and people set up there when crowded, but remains un‚nished. This House is about 11Ö2 m from Lincolns house ÜSouth & East. Went
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Levi Hall and Nancy Hanks Hall, the sister of AL's grandmother. This Nancy Hanks was the aunt of AL's mother and gave birth out of wedlock to Dennis Hanks (by Charles Friend) before marrying Hall. See the appendix.
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Apparently members of the family of Peter Brooner. See J. T. Hobson, Footprints of Abraham Lincoln (Dayton, Ohio, 1909), 17¬19.
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