Show IE AE WAS VAS ALWAYS ON THE MOVE ir limas lincoln vill her ol of tin file allor maiora Ya iora C it tile country hiis has hoard heard much or nl tile and or thomas liti coin father or of tile liberator how lie he WIH was ever on oil tile the move find and sue ceeder in making about aa bad a location X A A 1 t ia 12 A 4 gk LA 4 J t 1 NO I A 1 1 it 1 IX liri DIED as circumstances al alluded to ell fit tin life in ili kentucky ind id indiana has been ix cn given in detail liia his son hon was still with him then but very little lifie said of liis his various removals in illinois ilia his first location was in macon maccon county afew a bev miles from the piment an benl rity city ol of decatur in the timber as tha th phrae wits was for in those lays days no one imag ineil that the prairies would be bottled in tile the lifetime or of living man indeed i everal of the early gazetteers of illinois stated that those broad anissy g plains pl anns jouit remain tor for ever is as common grazing zill pounds ands lor for farmers fan ners gral in i few years fio however wever it was discovered discover etl that the prairies were moro more fertile than the woodland and thomas lincoln wan all in a fever to move again and did in 15 1811 1511 11 lie he made a second removal but to what place is not recorded as lie ho did no tremain long Ill estill listened says herndon to the llie lowing glowing descriptions eions of prosperity in adjacent counties his third anti and last move was to the new est cst part of coles county then called goose nest braide near tile the iw pre ml crit hamlet of farmington and eight south of charleston tha county town his lat ladt plaintive utterance to his la mons sou od W was 13 t that hat lis his little tract tr tit land bore the usual a mortgage for or on tile the irth or ol january giai tie he there them at tile ago age of seventy three year and eleven days prom from a letter written the following november by Ab abraham lincoln to his stepbrother johns johnston of wo w learn that the writer paid the mortgage and secured tha tit eastern forty acre acrea A tor for mother there tho the president elect i iw her early in 1861 for the last tinie time anil and there she died april 10 A hand some marble shaft erected by robert 1 I lincoln marks the burial place or of tile alif liberators Libura torB father J it 11 |