Extra Credit Questions

[RJNorton]

Thank you to Blaine for sending these images regarding whether Abraham Lincoln was a pallbearer at John Quincy Adams' funeral.

Blaine writes, "I've seen several articles, books and on the forum claiming Lincoln was a pallbearer at the funeral for John Quincy Adams. Not true. He did serve on the Committee of Arrangements for the funeral, but was not a pallbearer. There were two different sets of pallbearers, one to "escort the remains to the place designated by his friends for interment" and another where a different set of pall-bearers "attended the mortal remains" to the Congressional Burying Ground.

My reference is "Token of a Nation's Sorrow. Addresses of the Congress of the United States, and Funeral Solemnities on the Death of John Quincy Adams." Washington: J. and G.S. Gideon, 1848."