Lincoln’s Store Partner

William F. Berry, 1811 - 1835, is buried two miles west in the cemetery of Rock Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which his father, the Rev. John M. Berry, founded in 1822. In 1832-1833, Berry and Abraham Lincoln were partners in a store at New Salem, and Berry also served as a corporal in Captain Abraham Lincoln's company in the Black Hawk War.

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