His death occurred on the fifteenth day of January, 1851.

He was buried in a neighboring country graveyard, about a mile north of Janesville, Coles County.

There was nothing to mark the place of his burial until February, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln paid a last visit to his grave just before he left Springfield for Washington.

On a piece of oak board he cut the letters T.L.and placed it at the head of the grave.

It was carried away by some relic-hunter, and the place remained as before, with nothing to mark it, until the spring of 1876.