PRESIDENT LAID TO REST IN OAK RIDGE CEMETERY
Springfield, Illinois (JFK+50) On May 4, 1865, the sixteenth POTUS was laid to rest here in his hometown. Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln chose Oak Ridge Cemetery as her husband's final resting place.
President Abraham Lincoln, shot by the actor and Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday, April 14, died the next morning at the Petersen House across from Ford's Theater where the assassination took place.
The President's body was taken by funeral train* from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, retracing the route in reverse that President-elect Lincoln had taken to his first inaugural in 1861.
*Lincoln's funeral train, which included 9 cars & carried the caskets of AL & his son Willie, traveled 1700 miles passing though 180 cities and 7 states. There were 300 guests on board. The train arrived in Springfield on May 3 with burial the following day.
SOURCE
"A Funeral Procession 1,700 Miles Long," National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, www.americanhistory.si.edu/
