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Shiloh Cemetery

CITY:

Janesville

COUNTY:

Coles

DEDICATED BY:

State of Illinois

DEDICATION DATE:

January 1, 1934 at 6:00:00 AM

The marker is located about 1.5 miles southwest of Campbell and 1.5 miles northwest of Lincoln Log Cabin State Park at the entrance to Shiloh Cemetery, which is on the east of side Lincoln Highway (County Road 80). The marker is just west of the Church.

In Shiloh Cemetery are the graves of Thomas and Sarah Lincoln, father and stepmother of Abraham Lincoln. On January 31, 1861, shortly before assuming the Presidency, Lincoln came here from Springfield to visit his father’s grave in company of his stepmother.

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