Extra Credit Questions

[Gene C]

The train car used to go to Gettysburg?

[RJNorton]

Outstanding, Gene! Here is an article I came across:

It's part of "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Excerpts from newspapers and other sources Illuminating aspects of this most well-known Presidential speech References to Lincoln's Coach Car From the files of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection"

https://ia800308.us.archive.org/30/items...00linc.pdf

In reading all the articles I must admit there is doubt/debate over whether or not this is the actual car. Thus, my question may be flawed.

Nevertheless, Gene you win one free night in the Lincoln bedroom in the David Wills House in Gettysburg.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736...012f18.jpg

[RJNorton]

This is the bedstead on which a man or woman died. The person who died has been mentioned previously on the forum. Who is it?

[L Verge]

Was the photo taken in the death room?

[RJNorton]

Was the photo taken in the death room?

Yes. But I do not know how many years after the death the photo was taken.

[Gene C]

Big room, low ceiling, low but wide door, few windows, hard wood floor (eliminates a basement?)....Looks like a rope bed
Does not look like log cabin walls.
Is the building still standing?

That's not an old picture of Samuel Mudd's house is it?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Looks like a very modest home (due to the very low ceiling) - so two names come into my mind: Herndon or Thomas Lincoln!?

[L Verge]

My first thought was Stonewall Jackson's death scene near Guinea Station in Virginia, but the room appears too big (though plebian), and I think his death bed was more like an officer's cot.

[Eva Elisabeth]

My first thought was Stonewall Jackson's death scene near Guinea Station in Virginia, but the room appears too big (though plebian), and I think his death bed was more like an officer's cot.

The room and bed look big, but could have been the only for a large family - to me the ceiling looks awfully low...reminds me of the very old farmhouses here, so I'm thinking of Herndon's modest farm.

[RJNorton]

Good thinking Gene and Laurie, but Eva's guess of Thomas Lincoln is correct! Kudos, Eva.

Eva, your prize is simply an extension of the trip you've already won for next July. After visiting the sites in Wisconsin and South Dakota you will be taken to Charleston, Illinois, to see the sites in that area!

[L Verge]

I scrolled through the whole McClure's article and saw the tombstone for Thomas Lincoln for the first time. It was obviously erected after 1865, but it is very impressive. Do we know who arranged for it to be placed on the grave? Also, what is the denomination of the Shiloh Church shown in the photo? Around here, I would guess it to be Methodist.

Sorry if the answers are in the surrounding text of this article. I looked at pictures, but did not read the entire piece.

[Gene C]

Presbyterian

http://www.genealogytrails.com/ill/coles...hiloh.html

[L Verge]

Thanks, Gene. All my questions answered on the one link.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Good thinking Gene and Laurie, but Eva's guess of Thomas Lincoln is correct! Kudos, Eva.

Eva, your prize is simply an extension of the trip you've already won for next July. After visiting the sites in Wisconsin and South Dakota you will be taken to Charleston, Illinois, to see the sites in that area!

That is a truly magnificent prize, thank you, Roger!

[L Verge]

What Congressman collapsed on the floor of the House and died two days later? Lincoln helped to plan his funeral and served as an honorary pallbearer.