Samuel Pate Family Cemetery in Lewisport, Kentucky

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Get directions Lewisport, Kentucky, USA

Coordinates: 37.97255, -86.85611
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This cemetery is located on the property once owned by Squire Samuel Pate on KY 334 overlooking the Ohio River. This is a small family cemetery with 23 graves. The home is a state designated historical home, marker #667. The cemetery is behind the home.

Squire Samuel Pate was a Justice of the Peace for Hancock County in the 1820's.

In the spring of 1827 Abraham Lincoln was tried for operating a ferry across the Ohio River without a license. The case - "The Commonwealth of Kentucky vs. Abraham Lincoln" - was tried in the east room of the log house before Squire Pate.

After a short trial, the warrant against the young Lincoln was dismissed as the future president won his first law case. -Hancock County Historical Society.