Lincoln Funeral Car Mystery Solved

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Lots of unanswered questions with the suggestion of the death at Bloomington. It is not reported in any of the existing papers in that area. It most surely would have been reported because the funeral train consisted of five trains that night and if any one or all were stopped for any time on account of a trackside death, it would have been reported in the papers, probably even nationally, but it wasn't. I made an effort to try and find the report while writing THE LINCOLN FUNERAL TRAIN, but came up empty-handed. I have to wonder if VRGE Bulock got the fainting of a couple of ladies confused. If he was on the train as it passed, and they were trackside when they fainted, he may have been speculating as to the end result in his notes.

Scott Trostel