Lincoln's embalmment

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(01-05-2015 08:16 PM)Houmes Wrote:  Not that I would ever stoop to confuse matters worse, but there was another lady claiming years later to have also cradled Lincoln's head in Ford's Theatre. This was Antonia Ford Willard, wife of Major Joseph C. Willard. Ironically, she had been imprisoned earlier in the war as a Confederate spy. Her descendants attempted in the 1930's to donate or sell the blood-stained opera cloak she wore to Ford's Theatre that night. Perhaps Ms. Willard and Ms. Keene passed Lincoln's head back and forth.

Read about this at: https://archive.org/stream/curiosrelicsclotlinc_11

This article states that Antonia Ford Willard “was at the Ford Theatre the night Lincoln was shot, and was in a BOX adjoining the one occupied by Mr. Lincoln”….. Hmmmm, how is that possible, since we know that all other boxes were unoccupied out of respect of the President…..