Extra Credit Questions

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I want you to know that I am delaying a shower and washing my hair to try and find this answer! I still don't think I have an answer that matches your hints, but...

1. Ned Kelly was wearing a long, fringed sash under his battle coat of armor. The sash had been given to him when he was ten by the parents of a young boy named ***** Shelton in appreciation for Ned having saved young Shelton from possibly drowning.
2. I followed the lead of the name "Shelton" and found a link to Abraham Lincoln.
3. The Evening Star of October 24 (my birth date), 1907 (but not my birth year!) carried an article about a Joseph Gates Shelton who was a member of the DC Police and was assigned to the White House during Lincoln's administration. He supposedly accompanied the Lincolns' carriage to Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, and then assisted in getting the dying President across the street to the Petersen house.
4. This Shelton is buried in D.C.'s Congressional Cemetery.

Am I getting anywhere near the answer you are looking for? Is your grandson named Richard or Joseph? What does Lincoln's lack of a formal education have to do with your man? I'm so confused...