The Lincoln Way (continued)

•August 20, 2025•

by Janet Roney

I am sure you know that Abraham Lincoln was a frequent visitor to Moultrie County when he was a young man and while he was practicing law on the Eighth Judicial Circuit. Local history nuts like me spend time researching when he was here, and where he ate and slept. So, hang in there with me.

One of the first places where he ate and slept was three miles south of Lovington near the Joshua Selby log cabin on March 13th, 1830. Joshua Selby and his father-in-law, Jacob Pea, had settled there in 1830 and were among the township’s earliest settlers. (Joshua’s 80 acres was on the east side of Route 32, and Jacob Pea’s was on the west side, just south of County Road 1850 North.) 

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