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Lincoln's Store Partner (missing)
CITY:
Lake Petersburg
COUNTY:
Menard
DEDICATED BY:
The Illinois State Historical Society
DEDICATION DATE:
January 1, 1953 at 6:00:00 AM
The marker is located four miles north of Salisbury and 3.5 miles south of New Salem, at the intersection of IL Route 97 and Rock Creek Road (County Road 5).
William F. Berry, 1811 – 1835, is buried two miles west in the cemetery of Rock Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church. His father, the Rev. John M. Berry, founded the church in 1822. Abraham Lincoln and Berry were partners in a store at New Salem in 1832-1833. Berry was a corporal in Captain Abraham Lincoln’s Company in the Black Hawk War.
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