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1865 illustration of Lincoln burial (Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper) The receiving vault (foreground) and the tomb (background)The Lincoln Tomb is the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States; his wife Mary Todd Lincoln; and three of their four sons: Edward, William, and Thomas.
Burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States are located across 23 states and the District of Columbia. Since the office was established in 1789, 45 people have served as President of the United States. [A] Of these, 39 have died. The state with the most presidential burial sites is Virginia with seven.
Lincoln's teenage grandson and namesake, Abraham Lincoln II ("Jack"), born August 14, 1873, died March 5, 1890, in London and was temporarily buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London, until his father returned to the U.S. with his body and on November 8, 1890, was placed in one of the crypts in the Lincoln Tomb.
As one of the original national cemeteries, it served as the burial grounds for mostly Union soldiers who died in the numerous hospitals around the Alexandria area, but by 1864 it was almost filled to capacity. This led to the development of the Arlington National Cemetery. The remains of 39 Confederates, originally buried in the cemetery ...
Lincoln's name and image appear in numerous other places, such as the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln's sculpture on Mount Rushmore, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in Hodgenville, Kentucky, [9] Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Lincoln City, Indiana, [10] Lincoln's New Salem, Illinois, [11] and Lincoln ...
Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 1934 Gaetano Cecere: Statue of Abraham Lincoln: New York City, New York. Union Square. 1870 Henry Kirke Brown: Statue of Abraham Lincoln: Portland, Oregon. South Park Blocks. 1928 George Fite Waters Statue of Abraham Lincoln: San Francisco, California. Civic Center. 1926 Haig Patigian: Statue of ...
The two-story brick rear ell was built in 1849 and joined to the main house in the early-1900s. Located on the property is the Lincoln family cemetery in which are buried five generations of the family, as well as Queenie, a woman who was enslaved by the Lincoln family, and "Virginia John" Lincoln, great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. [3]
This is a list of notable individuals buried at Arlington National ... son of former US President Abraham Lincoln; ... of Arlington, Virginia [28 ...