09/19/2025
ARCHAEOLOGY MONTH - CEMETERIES: Little Pigeon Creek Cemetery at Lincoln State Park.
Little Pigeon Creek Cemetery is where Abraham Lincoln’s sister Sarah, who died in childbirth, is buried. Abe’s mother Nancy Hanks is memorialized nearby at NPS’ Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Memorial. Abe roamed the woods and fields here when he was a boy.
He recalled his childhood home: “The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread. And feel I’m part of thee.”
The park was established in 1932 as a memorial to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abraham’s mother who died of milk sickness in 1818. Both the state park and Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial across the highway (which was originally developed by the state) celebrate Lincoln’s youth in Indiana.
on.IN.gov/lincolnsp
