VA-R80 Minister Who Married Lincoln

Marker text: MINISTER WHO MARRIED LINCOLN

Here lived Rev. Charles A. Dresser, rector of Antrim Parish and builder of St. Mark's Church, 1828. Dresser left this parish in 1835 for Peoria, Illinois, whence he moved to Springfield. There he married Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd, November 4, 1842.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1929

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Location: US Hwy 501 (Halifax Rd) and VA Rt 654 (Greens Folly Rd), Halifax, Halifax County, Virginia

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