Abraham Hananiah

The documented record of the president's grandfather does not match this marker. Captain Abraham Lincoln, born in 1744, moved his family to Kentucky in 1781 and settled in Jefferson County. In May 1786 he was working in his field with his three sons when he was killed. He was buried beside his cabin, now the site of Long Run Baptist Church and Cemetery near Eastwood, Kentucky, where a memorial stone was set in 1937. The Clay County man honored here, who the marker says died in 1814, is therefore a different story.

What the plaque says

Abraham Hananiah Abraham Hananiah Lincoln, officer in the Revolutionary War and grandfather of the sixteenth President of the United States, operated a saltpeter works near here in Seven Sisters Bluffs. In 1814, he was killed by Indians and was buried in Tall Cedars Cemetery on the Lynn Farm, one mile northeast of this site.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Standing Stone State Park — 10 mi
  A New Deal park on Mill Creek named for a vanished stone that Native peoples revered and railroad builders blasted, with a lake, 1930s cabins and a marbles championship.
• Red Boiling Springs — 14 mi
  A Macon County spa town built around red sulphur springs, with five kinds of mineral water, red-painted pumps and the surviving hotels of a resort that once held more than a dozen.
• Cummins Falls State Park — 16 mi
  A 75-foot waterfall and swimming hole on the Blackburn Fork, saved from a housing development in 2011 and opened as Tennessee's 54th state park.
• Cookeville Depot Museum — 23 mi
  The 1909 Tennessee Central Railroad depot in Cookeville's west side, now a museum with a model of the town in 1955 and a steam engine in the yard.

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