Grave of John Wilkes Booth

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(01-19-2017 01:51 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Many thanks to Kieran McCauliffe for sending this link:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave...7ebe1a69fb

The article reads: “Visitors today believe the small, plain, unmarked headstone denotes John Wilkes Booth’s final resting spot. In lieu of flowers or stones, people leave pennies behind on the headstone, as if to give Lincoln the final word.”

However, the unmarked stone is NOT marking JWB’s final resting place. It is the footstone of Booth’s sister Asia. I’ve draw boxes for Asia, Booth’s parents and Rosalie (picture below) to show that each grave at the Booth family plot at Greenmount Cemetery has a headstone and a footstone. The yellow arrow is pointing to Asia’s footstone, mistakenly seen as JWB’s stone.

   

At the 6 x 9 meter plot are 4 generations Booth interred.

   

(1) Edwin T. Booth (nephew JWB). 2. Dr. Joseph A. Booth (JWB's brother and Edwin’s father). Joseph’s 2nd wife Cora E. Mitchell Booth is at Joseph’s right side. His first wife (Margaret C. Hatfield Booth) and her little baby are also interred here, however unmarked. 3. Booth Monument. 4: Richard Booth (JWB's grandfather); 5. Rosalie A. Booth (unmarried). 6. Here are the unmarked graves of JWB’s siblings Mary Ann Booth, Frederick Booth and Elizabeth Booth (all died young). 7. Junius Brutus Booth (JWB’s father). 8. Mary Ann Holmes Booth (JWB’s mother). 9. Asia S. Booth Clarke (JWB’s sister). JWB’s brothers Henry B. Booth, Junius Brutus Booth Jr. and Edwin T. Booth are respectively interred in Londen, Engeland; Manchester, Massachusetts and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

John Wilkes Booth’s grave is UNMARKED and is somewhere at the family plot, nobody knows where the exact spot is (maybe somewhere near the red question marks ?).