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Lincoln's Father's Cemetery Growing With Land Gift
LERNA, Ill. (AP) -- The eastern Illinois cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's father is buried is about to get a little bigger.

Stan McMorris of the Thomas Lincoln Cemetery Association says longtime site caretaker Gale Baker has donated 10 acres of adjacent pasture. The cemetery is not far outside Charleston and a few miles northwest of the Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site. That's the location of Thomas Lincoln's farm.

The donation will allow the cemetery to grow.

The site is still used. McMorris notes that soldiers from almost every American war are buried there.

Baker's only condition is that a war memorial be built on the site. McMorris says that should happen by spring.

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08 02 10 by Newsroom
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