"I've lived in Lincoln for 30 years, drove down O street plenty of times, not knowing I had a relative buried in this cemetery." ...

PEORIA, Ill. – The name of Nance Legins-Costley could resonate amid the likes of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and other abolitionist figures. But her story is hardly known. Not in Illinois ...

As Lincoln Memorial Park's owner surrendered his licensing, the cemetery is now abandoned. Volunteers have the gates open while officials wrangle over who will take over.

In 1876, Abraham Lincoln's body lay within an aboveground white marble sarcophagus in a handsome tomb on the grounds of Springfield, Ill.'s Oak Ridge Cemetery.

She was the first Black person freed by Abe Lincoln. Her Illinois grave was paved over, her story hardly known. Nance Legins-Costley got her freedom in 1841, long before the attorney became ...

Couch's grandson saw those articles, and said that was not correct. He said there should be about seven people buried in the tomb – including Ira, his wife, his parents, two of his brothers who ...