Booth at Green Mount

[LincolnMan]

Great pictures! So much history represented there. To the world outside it's fence- mostly unknown!

[cookbob]

Bryantown Tavern
30 November 2014

Over the years, I have been on several historical society tours (such as two or three conducted by the now-disbanded Preservation Association for Tudor Hall) and during stops at the three Lincoln conspirators' grave sites at Greenmount Cemetery - which includined the Booth family site - it was pointed out that JWB is buried immediately behind the back side of the Booth obelisk; i.e. on/under the plot of empty ground on which the photographer was standing when Photograph #6 - 4th from the bottom) was taken. Both Mike Kauffman (who was one of the P.A.T.H tour guides during one of the outings) and James O. Hall (who personally told me this several other times) concurred with this opinion.

Given the rather cluttered nature of most of the Booth family site, the back-of-the-obelisk location for JWB also makes good sense; and technically fulfills the Booth/U.S. government agreement that the JWB plot not have a specifically-named stone marker (although his name is on the "To the Memory of..." list.

Robert W. (Bob) Cook

[HerbS]

Rick Miller,Is this a true story about Booth and Tudor Hall[as told to me by my deseased brother in law from Baltimore]?When JWB was a child,he was given a diamond by his father,thus,to see if it was real,he etched his initials in a glass window at Tudor Hall.Thanks-Herb Swingle

[Jim Garrett]

There are initials etched into the glass sidelight by the front door.

[HerbS]

Thank you Jim,I had to prove my facts!

[RJNorton]

From the Vault: Green Mount cemetery

20 photos from the Baltimore Sun

http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2016/11...-cemetery/

[Jim Garrett]

Roger: Thanks for sharing. A number of people associated with the assassination to some degree are at Green Mount. One of the more interesting individual completely unrelated to the assassination at Green Mount is Johnny Eck. He was a sideshow attraction billed as the half-boy. His body ended at his torso.

[RJNorton]

Many thanks to Jim for sending these photos. Jim writes, "Here are pictures of the grave of David Preston Parr, the china merchant who may have been one of the members from Baltimore involved in the plot. Also, a picture of Johnny Eck."

[Thomas Kearney]

(11-08-2016 12:21 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Many thanks to Jim for sending these photos. Jim writes, "Here are pictures of the grave of David Preston Parr, the china merchant who may have been one of the members from Baltimore involved in the plot. Also, a picture of Johnny Eck."

Roger, from the picture I've seen (I'm not a doctor) I think Johnny was born with congenital amputation, which means he was born without certain limbs, similar to gold medal Paralympian basketball star (and Maryland Native) Trevon Jenifer, who was coached this year by Dave Taylor's brother. Read more about this rare condition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_amputation

And Trey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevon_Jenifer

Trey's connection to the assassination: https://www.instagram.com/p/BK6JtC7AKaw/...reyjenifer

[Jim Garrett]

Thanks for sharing the info Thomas.