Grave of James Rutledge, father of Ann

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As I say, I have been examining the 1838 Lincoln Suicide Poem which was
rediscovered by Richard Lawrence Miller as he was looking over back issues Sangamo Journal in Sangamon county, Illinois. I'm trying to look at it from several angles: did Abraham Lincoln author it, what was the fuller purpose by its author in having such a macabre poem published and broadcast, was there an actual suicide done and which stirred the author to write it, was the existence of the poem intentionally concealed until Richard Miller found it, other questions?