Breckinridge County KyArchives News.....Shelter Given to the Lincoln Family April 6, 2022
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The Herald News Newpaper April 6, 2022
SHELTER GIVEN TO THE LINCOLN FAMILY
BY LESLIE GALLOWAY HAYCRAFT
THE HERALD NEWS NEWSPAPER 
4/6/2022 EDITIONS

	The historical marker pictured at right was erected in 1967 and is on South Main
Street (State 261) beside the FFA Camp in Hardinsburg.  The marker reads: In the
autumn of 1816 the family of Abraham Lincoln, then seven years old, migrating to
Indiana, rested and recuperated about three weeks in a cabin that stood near here. 
Local residents gave them food.  Lincoln’s route in Kentucky started near
Hodgenville and went through Elizabethtown, Vince Grove, Harned, Hardinsburg to
Cloverport to a river ferry.  Lincoln traveled by ox cart.
	Colonel David R. Murray was said to have directed the Lincoln family to a vacant
family to rest and seek shelter.  Years later as President, Lincoln retold the story
of his trip from Kentucky to Indiana and the Colonel confirmed the story.  Lincoln
also told of taking a Gerry led by Jacob Weatherholt across the Ohio River at
Joeville (later called Cloverport).  The ferry was a raft of logs and held the cart,
a canoe took the family across, and the ox and cow were made to swim across to
Indiana.  Ferryman Jacob Weatherholt allowed them to camp on land that he owned
across the river in Tobinsport before continuing their travels to the area of their
land grand near Vincennes, Ind.  These stories are confirmed by written affidavits
of relatives of him as well as witnesses of the ferry ride in Cloverport.  Stories
of the Lincoln trip through Breckinridge County became cherished history for the
families who made contact with them and proudly retold for generations.


Additional Comments:
Copied from original article, with permission from Leslie Galloway Haycraft
(reporter) and the Herald News newspaper, from their 9/8/2021 edition.

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