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Mt. Pulaski Cemetery


Mt. Pulaski Cemetery


Randolph Cemetery

Cast Iron Tombstone Trial  
8th Circuit Court - Mt. Pulaski Courthouse - 1854

Reenactment & Historical Reading
Mount Pulaski Courthouse Courtroom

by
Mt. Pulaski Abraham Lincoln 
200th Birthday Committee

 Show time:  Saturday, Nov. 18      1:00 pm          [donation]
                             [Repeat performance to follow, upon demand]

                                 Come early - seating limited.  Reserved seats are available:
                                      $5.00  - Mt. Pulaski Township Historical Society
                                                    [south side of square]

Lincoln in 1857.  Davis

Principal participants:
        Abraham Lincoln - Lawyer for the plaintiff
        David Davis - Judge of the 8th Circuit Court, which covered
                                           approximately 450 miles through 14 counties
        Nathaniel Whitaker - plaintiff & owner of the Mt. Pulaski House Hotel

Thus far, six Cast Iron Tombstones have been located in Logan County.  The 6th one is in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery east of Chestnut.

       This trial is only one of three known trials held in the Mount Pulaski Courthouse during the mid 19th Century [1848 – 1855].  All paper work of all the other trials and judgments that were written in Mount Pulaski’s courthouse were destroyed in the 1857 courthouse fire in Lincoln, Illinois.  All records from the Mount Pulaski Courthouse had been transferred to this new location in December, 1855,  after the county
seat was voted to be moved from Mount Pulaski to Lincoln, IL.
       In 1855, the town of Lincoln had recently acquired a train connection from Chicago to Springfield and onto St. Louis.  Also, it was more centrally located in Logan County.