Where Is It?

[David Lockmiller]

RJNorton made the following post on March 19, 2013 at 5:16 AM (just over a decade ago):

Joe, you are correct. Leonard Grover himself drove the president back to the White House. The drunk driver, Francis Burke, was the same driver who drove the Lincolns to Ford's on April 14, 1865.

Joe, you win one original glass of lemonade made by Lemonade Lucy.

I had seen this story before but was most recently reminded of it when reading the new book by Jim Garrett and Rich Smyth. The authors write that Burke lies in an unmarked grave not far from the Surratts.

I did not find any reference to this story in Professor Burlingame's Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Volume Two.

But isn't it amazing how forgiving President Abraham Lincoln was?