(Taylorville)--Incoming President Will Perkins (left) presided over the weekly meeting of the Taylorville Kiwanis Club on Tuesday at the Taylorville Memorial Hospital auditorium.

Speaker was Don Farrimond (right) spoke about Oak Ridge Cemetery where President Abraham Lincoln is now buried.  He spoke of the drawn out process to have him buried there, the construction of the tomb, monument and grounds. 

Engraved names in the burial chamber walls mark the location of the Lincoln family crypts.  The remains of Mary Todd Lincoln and three of the Lincolns’ four children are interred with the Sixteenth President.  Robert Todd Lincoln was the only Lincoln child to reach adulthood.  His is buried in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C.

Above the window are engraved the words spoken by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton at the moment of Lincoln’s death, “Now He Belongs To The Ages.”

The Taylorville Kiwanis Club is part of global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.  Weekly meetings are held Tuesdays at noon at the Taylorville Memorial Hospital auditorium.  For information on the club, go to taylorvillekiwanis.com.