Who are the plumbers?

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Thank you Eva and Rick !

Here are they: the plumbers who closed the coffin of Lincoln

   

top left: Samuel S. Elder (May 5, 1831 - Jan. 12, 1914)
top right: Leon P(utney) Hopkins (July 15, 1851 - June 18, 1946)
bottom left: A(ndrew) J(ackson) Babcock (July 12, 1830 - Jan 12, 1911)
bottom right: Charles L(eon) Willey Sr. (1866 - 1944)

All are buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery, except Willey (also spelled as Wiley) who is buried at the Masonic Cemetery at Coquille in Oregon (Willey left the plumbing business and in 1911 moved his family to Oregon).

Here is a nice photo of Hopkins and Willey:

   

If you are interested in the very interesting story of Samuel Elder, I've placed the story (pdf) at my box cloud. You can download it here:

https://app.box.com/s/nb6m7hitc2mgqkvcto8vwa5ztwx69wh5

Still searching for the answer on the question who the plumbers were on Dec. 21, 1865 and Sept 19, 1871. Not found any primary evidence that it was Hopkins.