. Curios and relics. Plants. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Thatcher, Maurice H. (Maurice Hudson), 1870-1973; Sheldon, Bert; Trees. AMERICAN FORESTS eluded in the park project. It will not be difficult to ascertain the kind of timber which flourished in Spencer County, Indiana, as early as 1816, for the report of a committee sent into the Lincoln country in South- ern Indiana in 1814, states in part: "The property is covered with heavy timber comprising oaks, beeches, ash, three kinds of nut trees three to four feet in diameter, with trunks fifty to sixty feet high—splen- did material for a
. Curios and relics. Plants. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Thatcher, Maurice H. (Maurice Hudson), 1870-1973; Sheldon, Bert; Trees. AMERICAN FORESTS eluded in the park project. It will not be difficult to ascertain the kind of timber which flourished in Spencer County, Indiana, as early as 1816, for the report of a committee sent into the Lincoln country in South- ern Indiana in 1814, states in part: "The property is covered with heavy timber comprising oaks, beeches, ash, three kinds of nut trees three to four feet in diameter, with trunks fifty to sixty feet high—splen- did material for all kinds of cabinet work—gum trees, hackberry, syca- more, persimmons, wild cherries, apples, and plums; also wild grapes of enormous diameter and height, all of which later bear fruit. There are also a large number of maple and sugar trees, from which great quantities of brown sugar can be made; sassafras trees from two to three feet in diameter and a. The Ced ars at Jonesboro, intimately associated vJith Lincoln's early life. original holdings consisted of one hundred and eighty acres. He relin- quished one-half of this tract after several years possession, so that the present plans for acquiring seventy acres will give an area very much like the Lincoln farm. A beautiful me- morial shrine will be erected near the burial spot of Lincoln's mother. There is a group of old cedars in Spencer County which also should be classed as living memorials of Abra- ham Lincoln. They mark the site of one of the early communities which greatly influenced Lincoln. Here at Jonesboro, Abraham Lincoln not only attended school but also clerked in a store. The cedars served as a pro- tection for the school house and are about a century and a quarter old. Here, as a small lad, Lincoln played with the other children of the com- munity. Later on, as a six foot-four kind of poplar. These have a very solid wood, good clerk, the future Civil War President weighed pork and for boards, while in the lo
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