Two Extra Crypts!!!

[Donna McCreary]

I agree that Robert would have been most unhappy with his wife's choice of a burial location.
However, I think she did manage to secure Robert's "own place in the sun." By the time of Robert's death, the Lincoln Tomb had already been rebuilt due to the stress caused on the structure from the number of people who visited. MHL wanted a peaceful place of burial - not someplace where bodies had to be dug up and moved every so often because of remodeling the tomb. She may have borrowed the phrase "own place in the sun" from Kaiser Wilhelm's 1901 speech in which he discussed the future of Germany. It was not about being the biggest, or the best, or the most visited; it was about finding a place in the greater world that is your own. She accomplished that for Robert. She gave him a quiet eternal resting spot - separate from the noise, traffic, and tourism of the Lincoln Tomb.
Afterall, people who go to the Lincoln Tomb do not go there to pay respect to Robert or any other member of the family. They go because of Abraham. Those who hunt and seek out Robert's grave, are truly paying their respect to him. I think that is what MHL wanted.