The Little Pigeon Cemetery, marked off in 1825 shortly after the church was established, became the final resting place of many of the earliest residents of the Little Pigeon Creek Settlement, including first families and their descendants, though many graves remain unmarked. Abraham Lincoln served as the church sexton, caring for the property, ringing the bell for services, and digging graves. Among the older graves is that of Sarah Lincoln Grigsby, Abraham Lincoln’s sister, who married in 1826 and died during childbirth 18 months later; she was buried with her child in her arms, her husband Aaron remarried in 1830 and died the following year, and he is buried beside her. Her grave, once marked by a sandstone slab with her initials, was replaced in 1914 with a cement headstone. The Little Pigeon Church was one of the community’s earliest institutions, serving both worship and gatherings, and its location was determined by a nearby spring. The first church, founded in 1816, was described as 30 feet by 24 feet of hewn logs, and Thomas Lincoln, a cabinetmaker, built its cabinets and pulpit and installed the window casings; a sandstone foundation stone from that original church rests against the current church. A second church was built in 1875, and the present building, the third on the site, was built in 1948 and remains a place of worship under the care of local residents. A road that crossed the church drive once ran from James Gentry’s store to Troy, Indiana, a trade center on the Ohio River and site of a ferry crossing into Kentucky, linking the store, the church, and the Noah Gordon mill as important points in the settlement; travel on this road was primarily on foot, and parts of it now form part of the park’s trail system.