Crossing the River

•May 21, 2025•

by Janet Roney

I had always wanted to hike the old Charleston Road that cut across my family farm where I grew up, and that my ancestor had followed into Moultrie County when he first came here from Kentucky in 1853. It was also the trail that Abraham Lincoln had traveled often as he practiced law. Abe had even waved at my great-grandmother when she was a child playing in their yard when he passed by. So, one hot July evening in 1982, we began our adventure…our hike to Mattoon on the Charleston Road. 

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