Long Run Baptist Church and Cemetery (also known as the Lincoln Cabin Site) is a historic church and cemetery on Long Run Road in Eastwood, Kentucky

Eastwood, Kentucky

Eastwood is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky centered along Shelbyville Road & Johnson Road.-References:...

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In 1786 Captain Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

 was murdered near this site by Native Americans

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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, while President Lincoln's father, Thomas Lincoln

Thomas Lincoln

Thomas Lincoln was an American farmer and father of President Abraham Lincoln.-Ancestors:Thomas Lincoln was descended from Samuel Lincoln, a Puritan from East Anglia who landed in Massachusetts in 1637...

, age eight, watched his father's murder. Tradition states that Captain Abraham Lincoln was buried by his cabin, which is now the site of Long Run Baptist Church and Cemetery. A stone memorializing Captain Abraham Lincoln was placed in the cemetery in 1937. The church was built on the site in 1844. The church and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places

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in 1975.