The ancestors of two presidents of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and Harry S. Truman, were connected to this place. Captain Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of President Lincoln, selected this site for a home in 1780 and erected a cabin here before May 29, 1780, on part of 400 acres he obtained through a Virginia land-office treasury warrant issued March 4, 1780. On May 19, 1786, while laboring to open a farm in the forest, he was killed by Indians in an ambush witnessed by his three sons, Mordecai, Josiah, and Thomas Lincoln, the future president's father, then eight years old. Mordecai shot and killed one of the attackers, and Josiah ran half a mile to Morgan Hughes Station for help. The church area is the traditional site of Captain Lincoln's grave. After his death, his widow and five children moved to what is now Washington County, Kentucky, where her relatives lived, leaving the cabin abandoned. Settlers then used the empty log dwelling as a school and meeting house for religious worshippers, and eventually it became exclusively a Baptist meeting house. The story of Captain Lincoln's death made a profound impression on President Lincoln, who wrote of it in letters in 1854 and 1857. President Harry S. Truman's maternal grandmother, Harriet Louisa Gregg Young, two of his maternal great-grandfathers, and numerous other relatives also frequently came here to worship. Mordecai Lincoln and his wife Mary conveyed the 400 acres to Benjamin Bridges, Senior, on April 2, 1822, and on July 4, 1834, Bridges transferred one acre to trustees for the Regular Baptist Church on Long Run.