Extra Credit Questions

[L Verge]

(08-27-2018 04:04 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Wow, what a great question Michael! Someone even has a web page on Austin Gollaher but didn't get it. Laurie, that one article you found was wrong. It wasn't Shelton who accompanied the Lincolns to Ford's; it was Francis P. Burke.

Burke was the coach driver, and supposedly Parker was the mounted escort. However, that article got me to wondering if there was more than one mounted escort.

Do we know whether or not there was a Joseph Shelton on the DC police force assigned to the White House? We have had long conversations on who carried/escorted Lincoln to the Petersen House; does Shelton show up anywhere in the picture? Could he have been one of those who was overlooked by the investigators and press?

That article is in the excellent files of Congressional Cemetery, so someone believed what might otherwise be family hearsay...

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(08-27-2018 08:19 AM)L Verge Wrote:  

(08-27-2018 04:04 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Wow, what a great question Michael! Someone even has a web page on Austin Gollaher but didn't get it. Laurie, that one article you found was wrong. It wasn't Shelton who accompanied the Lincolns to Ford's; it was Francis P. Burke.

Burke was the coach driver, and supposedly Parker was the mounted escort. However, that article got me to wondering if there was more than one mounted escort.

Do we know whether or not there was a Joseph Shelton on the DC police force assigned to the White House? We have had long conversations on who carried/escorted Lincoln to the Petersen House; does Shelton show up anywhere in the picture? Could he have been one of those who was overlooked by the investigators and press?

That article is in the excellent files of Congressional Cemetery, so someone believed what might otherwise be family hearsay...

Here is the site that I found on Google about Joseph Gales Shelton
https://ghostsofdc.org/2014/02/12/godcer...t-lincoln/

When I tried to get into the Congressional Cemetery link given there, however, I got the frustrating 404 Error statement.