Picturing the Past
Elijah Lincoln
Story and photos: Mayor Greg Wright
With the celebration of Presidents’ gold rush. He returned to Gibson County when the war between the states broke out. Elijah Lincoln was part of Day and especially Abraham the locally famous 58th regiment from Gibson Lincoln‘s birthday this month, County, fighting in several famous battles for we look at a former Gibson the Union Army in the Civil War. County resident who The 58th regiment was the first regiment presumably was related in Indiana to have a monument erected in to the 16th president of their honor in the entire state of Indiana in the United States. 1865. This monument still adorns the Elijah Lincoln was born in Zanesville, southwest corner of our courthouse Ohio, on September 17, 1832. He was courtyard. the son of Leonard and Nancy Lincoln Elijah Lincoln had a strong uncanny and is believed to be the second cousin resemblance to his distant cousin but of ole Abe. After his father died when claimed he only saw the former president Elijah was a young boy, he joined his on a couple of occasions. Elijah Lincoln brother who lived in Southern Illinois. died on March 20, 1916, at the age of 84 in Elijah Lincoln was considered a great Fort Branch, Indiana. He is buried at Walnut hunter in his early days, often hunting Hill Cemetery. through the wilderness of Southern Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana. Elijah Lincoln during a For years Elijah was involved in farming and lived G.A.R. celebration of Gibson in the Fort Branch area. As a young man, Mr. Lincoln Andy Griffith quiz answers: County’s 58th Regiment spent three years in Colorado, during the Pikes Peak 1. A; 2. D; 3. B; 4. C
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Small Town Living
