PETERSBURG, IL

This is the home of Edgar Lee Masters when he lived in Petersburg. Masters was a poet and a biographer – most notable he wrote biographies of Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln.

He is buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Petersburg not far from Ann Rutledge’s grave. Ann Rutledge – Many historians believe she was the first true love of Abraham Lincoln. However, she died very young at the age of 22 when a typhoid epidemic swept through New Salem.