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Wikipedia Description: Oak Ridge Cemetery
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Oak Ridge Cemetery is a cemetery located in Springfield, Illinois in the United States.
Lincoln's Tomb, which serves as the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, his wife and all but one of his children, is located at Oak Ridge. A number of other prominent politicians and persons from Illinois are also buried at the cemetery.
As a result of Lincoln's Tomb, Oak Ridge is the second-most visited cemetery in the United States, after Arlington National Cemetery.
The Cemetery has memorials for the Korean War, World War II and the Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Notable burials:
* William Henry Bissell
* Jacob Bunn
* John Whitfield Bunn
* John Cook
* Shelby Moore Cullom
* Ninian Edwards
* William Lee D. Ewing
* William Herndon
* Elijah Iles
* William Jayne
* John J.H. Kelly (Medal of Honor)
* Robert Carr Lanphier
* John L. Lewis
* Abraham Lincoln - Sixteenth President; during the Civil War
* Mary Todd Lincoln - Abraham's wife
* Vachel Lindsay
* John Alexander McClernand
* John Riley Tanner
* Arthur Harrison Wilson (Medal of Honor)
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Lincoln Tomb
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Lincoln's Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, is the final resting place of 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and three of their four sons. The monument is owned and administered by the State of Illinois as Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site.
On April 15, 1865, the day President Lincoln died, a group of Springfield citizens formed the National Lincoln Monument Association and spearheaded a drive for funds to construct a memorial or tomb. Upon arrival of the corpse on May 3, it lay in state in the Illinois State Capitol for one night. After the funeral the next day, his coffin was placed in a receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery, the site Mrs. Linc ...More...
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1965 photos: From 1963 to 1966, our family lived in Chappaqua, New York while Dad worked for Standard Oil of New Jersey in the 30 Rock building in New York City.
From 1954 to 1975, the bulk of these pictures were taken by my Dad, Glenn Guthrie At the time, he was using a complicated, but normal for the day, manual Kodak with light meters and such. All of Dad's pictures from this time were slides.
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The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted.
Family trips this year: Cross-country drive to visit Dad's folks San Diego, CA with stops in lots of national parks on the way (biggest ones being Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Mount Rushmore).
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