Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

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(01-06-2018 09:42 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Yet it was (if so) Mary Harlan (Lincoln) who was the one, and she didn't care much about Robert's wishes as for the burial site either.

As early as October 3, 1883, the report was that “[Robert] Lincoln has said that he will be buried by the side of his wife and children elsewhere.” https://www.newspapers.com/image/2065111...%2Blincoln

It was not his widow’s last-minute call, but somehow that story got going and has never stopped.