Grave of John Wilkes Booth
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01-23-2017, 12:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-23-2017 12:58 PM by L Verge.)
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RE: Grave of John Wilkes Booth
(01-22-2017 10:04 AM)LincolnMan Wrote: I would like to visit the cemetery someday. Is it well kept or no? Bill - Are you inquiring about the old St. Peter's Cemetery in Southern Maryland, where Spangler rests or Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, which holds the remains of the Booths? In both cases, the cemeteries are well-maintained. There is a problem with Green Mount in that it is in a decaying section of the city. I have not been there in over a decade, but it was then the practice to close the cemetery at dusk and release the dogs. Can anyone on the forum confirm the safety issue there now? It is a shame that many of our venerable old cemeteries have been threatened by their neighborhoods over the generations. Congressional Cemetery in D.C. is one that has fought back and survived. (01-23-2017 07:14 AM)loetar44 Wrote:(01-19-2017 12:51 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Many thanks to Kieran McCauliffe for sending this link: Thanks for correcting that article's misconception that a footstone for Asia is actually a headstone for JWB. Someone didn't do their homework. I would also like to make one comment about the plaque which gives a general listing of those who died at an early age. According to information brought out by historians and cemetery officials during the court case of the 1990s requesting the exhumation of John Wilkes's remains, the siblings who died at an early age were removed from their graves at Tudor Hall at the time of the assassin's reinterment at Green Mount. Their remains were co-mingled in a single coffin, which was then placed on top of John's as it was buried. This was one of the decisive pieces of information that enabled the judge to rule against the petition to exhume John's body for examination. It is a time-honored "rule" evidently that one should not disturb the bones of others while working at another grave. I say this to clarify that the marker which lists the other children very likely refers to a general, not specific, location of their bodies and that of their brother. Otherwise, there would be no mystery as to where Lincoln's assassin is buried. |
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