This is the first cemetery established in Fountain Green township.  Here lies the remains of the first settlers of this section of the county and among those who lie at rest are the aunt and the first cousins of President Lincoln, also the following named settlers.

The first immigration from Kentucky to this section of Hancock County was Ute Perkins in 1826, John Brewer in 1827, John Day in 1929 [1829], Benn Mudd in 1830, Mordecai Lincoln, Sr. in 1830 and Abraham Lincoln and Mordecai, Jr., in 1830.  They were followed a little later by the Cambrons, Yagers, Rileys, Hardys, Branhams, Kellys, Gittings, Jones, Fagans, McDonoughs and others, all of whom, with the exception of the first few were of Catholic faith.

The Lincolns, the uncle, aunt and cousins of President Lincoln, some 10 or 12 in number, lie buried in this little cemetery with the exceptions of Mordecai Lincoln, Sr., who was buried on Section 29 before the establishment of a Catholic Cemetery and Hezekiah and Nicholas Lincoln, who are buried at La Harpe Cemetery.

The cemetery contains only one acre; title: Southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 34, Fountain Green township, Illinois.

In 1832 a piece of land, 250 yards south of the old cemetery was selected for a new one and the remains of fourteen persons were removed and reburied in the new cemetery.

In the first cemetery lie the remains of Elizabeth Lincoln*, wife of Mordecai Lincoln, Sr., aunt of President Lincoln, and her three sons, James B. Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln and Mordecai Lincoln, Jr., also Frances Day Lincoln, wife of James B.; Elizabeth Mudd Lincoln, wife of Abraham, and Charles, Amanda and Elizabeth, sons and daughters of James B. Lincoln.

Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham, who died at the Typer house in Carthage, Illinois in 1866, and others of the Lincoln family, and also members of the families mentioned in the first of this article are buried in this old cemetery.