Menard County (IL) cemeteries

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(10-15-2014 06:49 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(10-15-2014 12:00 PM)Joe Di Cola Wrote:  

(10-15-2014 11:35 AM)L Verge Wrote:  Herndon's marker looks rather new compared to the others. Was he in an unmarked grave previously?

Hearkening back to the exhumation of Anne Rutledge, were any teeth found in the grave?

Laurie,

As near as I can tell, Herndon's gravestone was replaced. When?--is the question. No reports from the four or five so-called witnesses ever reported the presence of teeth at the "exhumation" of Ann Rutledge. The best source on this is: Gary Erickson. "The Graves of Ann Rutledge and the Old Concord Burial Ground." Lincoln Herald, v 71, No. 3, Fall, 1969.

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Laurie,

I just checked my files...Herndon's grave remained unmarked from the time of his death until c. 1918 when the present marker was placed there. I should have checked the file before my previous response to you. Hope this clears it up.

Joe

Thanks, Joe. The reason I asked about the teeth is that Blaine Houmes and I were talking about it today, and he asked about the teeth. Dr. Blaine said that if bone had remained, some teeth should have also. Maybe they were so small that no one thought to look for them in the dirt.

Ed Steers has a detailed account of the exhumation of Ann Rutledge in
http://tinyurl.com/knckwjs " Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations..."