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The museum was near Oak Ridge Cemetery, the site of Abraham Lincoln's tomb. Collections at the museum included a re-created 1920s embalming room, coffins and funeral paraphernalia from various cultures and times, examples of post-mortem photography, and a scale model of Lincoln's funeral train.
Pages in category "Burials at Oak Ridge Cemetery" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Lemay, St. Louis County. Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis; Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, University City; Cold Water Cemetery, Florissant in St. Louis; NRHP-listed
The residents of Doniphan were promised protection by Captain W. T. Leeper if they remained loyal to the Union, but the residents were mostly rebel sympathizers. [ 11 ] In 1862, Reverend Timothy Reeves, a Baptist minister in Doniphan, formed Reeves's Independent Company of Missouri Scouts, a militia group under the command of Confederate ...
It is located in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. Constructed of granite, the tomb has a tall, story-and-a-half base in trapezoidal form, surmounted by an obelisk, with a semicircular receiving room entranceway on one end and a semicircular crypt or burial room opposite. On the exterior, four flights of balustraded stairs lead to a ...
The cemetery was designed by William Saunders in the Rural Cemetery Landscape Lawn style. [2] The location was chosen for its topography, including rolling hills, key to this style. The many eponymous oak trees cover a ridge bordering low-lying Spring Creek, a landscape unusual in central Illinois. The newest, southwest section opened after 1945.
The first lot in the new cemetery was sold in 1868. Additionally, some remains from the older cemetery and elsewhere were moved to the new Oak Ridge cemetery. Burials in the older cemetery ceased in 1881, and the grounds were vacated and the remaining burials moved in 1894. [2] In 1900, the village made a second purchase of land to expand the ...
Oak Ridge receiving vault. Mary Lincoln however recalled that Lincoln once had said that he wanted a quiet place for his burial at Oak Ridge (said to her on May 24, 1860, when Lincoln, then running for president, and Mary attended the dedication of Oak Ridge, a rural quiet cemetery, two miles (3.2 km) from the heart of Springfield).