The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-03
ABRAHAM L1NooLN,s BIRTHPLACE.
Where the Great Martyr President Was Born
and Lived in the Bloody Ground.

Where the Great Martyr President Was Born
and Lived in the Bloody Ground.
Louisville Commercial.
Lincoln as everybody knows, was of Ken
lucky birth. The Century people have sent art
lists to Larue county to make sketches of the
site of his earliest home and other points of in
terest connected with it. The Hodgenville Her
aid says "The spot is located about three
miles south of Hodgenville, and is often visited
by his admirers. Although the old house
to mark the site but the stones that were
| in the chimney, yet the exact spot where
our war President was born is easily distiE-
guished by other objects Traces of the old
orchard and garden yet remain. The apple and
| pear trees are standing, and the raspberry
bushes and strawberry bed have also stood the
| test of time. The strawberry bed bears every
| spring. and the berries are particularly fine. A
| few steps from where the house WAS situated is
| the old spring, one of the finest in the State.
| Hidden in the ground about twenty feet with
natural path leading down to it, and sur
rounded by cluster of trees, it makes a most
beautiful picture. The friends of Presi-
| dent Lincoln cut cane from his old homestead,
had it finished with gold head, and on the day
of his Inauguration presented it to him. He
ever afterward used this cane, and when he was
assassinated in the theater at Washington it was
in his hand Canes from the spot have been sent
| all over the United States, and are highly treas
ured by many men of note" A landmark in
that locality is Austin Gallagher. an old gentle
man who, In boyhood, was playmate of Lin
coin, and once rescued him from drowning while
bathing in Knob creek. He is able to point out
many objects of interest concerning the Lincoln
home.
Relics Of Lincons Kentucky life are numer-
GUS The Hodgenville paper relates that William
| GOT, an old gentleman of Taylor county, has a
cross-cut saw that was used by the father of
| Abraham Lincoln when he occupied the old
| homestead on the Creal farm in Larue county
| 1t is yet in good state of preservation, though
time with slow but persistent efforts, has left its
| mark. The saw has been sold under the hammer
on two different occasions and the facts coz
nected Herewith were known and stated by the
auctoneer at both sales, which caused the saw at
the last sale to have more than actual value as
| Mr.. Lincoln. when he moved to Illinois, and was
bought by William Bayne. old resident of
| this county. At his death it was sold to Mr.
| Golf its present owner. 1t is treasured as relic
that will, In all probability, some day gain great
| notoriety.
| 1t is a matter Of regret that the inhabitants of
this section about to receive the attention of
| the whole world, have not been more apprecia-
| tive of the honor of having among them the
| birthplace of so great man. During the last
! session of Congress the Hon. Thomas A. Robert
| son. native Of the same county, introduced a
| bill for the erection of memorial stone on the
site of the old Lincoln house, which failed to get
| a hearing before the adjournment came. But it
created against it's author not little prejudice
so tnat In some counties it helped to defeat him
| for the denomination for Congress in the primary
| election a few days since. It seems that the
| ancient prover6 about a prophet being without
honor In his own country has many modern IL
| lustrationS