Tad Lincoln

[Joe Di Cola]

(09-17-2012 05:04 PM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  Don't you hate it when your memory doesn't agree with you? After reading this thread, I thought for sure that I had once seen a picture of Tad Lincoln in his sickbed shortly before his death. However, googling various search terms of the like has come up with nothing. I must be thinking of someone else. Nevertheless, I can very clearly picture a photograph (I'm thinking it was a cabinet card but maybe it was even more modern than that) of teenaged boy slightly sitting up in a bed. I even remeber the caption being something along the lines of, "last photograph of blahblahblah taken at his sickbed in blahblahblah. He died not long after this photograph was taken." There were sheets all around the boy and you could only really see his head. I could have sworn it was Tad, but apparently not. I know this is off topic, but does anyone know any other historical figure's son that passed away at a young age that I could be thinking of. A President's son maybe?

Franklin Pierce lost a son at a very early age, I believe in a rail accident. JFK lost a son soon after he had been born. FDR lost a son, Franklin (the Rooselvelts named a later-born son Franklin, too). Ike lost a young son to a serious illness (he also said that he never recovered from that loss). Taylor lost a daughter when she was young--she was maried to Jefferson Davis when she died). Garfield lost children to illnesses when the children were young. T.R. lost a son, Quentin, in WW I (he was in his early 20s, I believe). These are a few that I recall.