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[theswordmaiden]

"At the last minute Joseph Lindley had his thirteen-year-old son Fleetwood released from school, so that he could be present when Lincoln's coffin was opened [in 1901]. Fleetwood Lindley survived until 1963, the last person to have looked upon the face of Abraham Lincoln."

From Stealing Lincoln's body, by Thomas J. Craughwell.

Comments

[ghentz]

That's crazy. I wonder if he died before or after JFK, and if they ever met.

[ghentz]

Wikipedia says he died on my prebirthday 1963.

[theswordmaiden]

Oh wow, didn't know he was in Wikipedia. I wasn't able to read the article they linked to, but I doubt he met JFK. I'd had no idea there was all this trouble about Lincoln's tomb and body until I saw this book, nice to see it explained on Wiki also.