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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. OAKRID_070703_128.JPG: In this tomb are the remains of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States. Born February 12, 1809, in a log cabin at Hodgenville, Kentucky, a slave state, second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. Died at Washington, D.C. April 15, 1865. Taken by his parents, in 1816, to Spencer County, Indiana, where he spent his youth. Two years later left motherless, but upon the re-marriage of his father became strongly attached to his stepmother, Sarah Bush, who exerted great influence on his character. At the age of twenty-one came with his family overland to Macon County, Illinois, where they settled on a farm. In 1831 moved to New Salem, where he lived six years. Moved to Springfield and practiced law until 1860, where he was elected to the Presidency of the United States. On November 4, 1842, married Mary Todd to which union were born four children, Robert Todd, Edward Baker, William Wallace and Thomas. Served as captain in the Black Hawk War, four terms in the Illinois state legislature, one term in Congress. Was twice defeated for United States Senate, and twice elected President of the United States. With only a meager schooling, he became a master of the English language, a lawyer of the highest standing and ability, a nationally known orator and debater, and one of the world's greatest statesmen. He guided our nation through the Civil War and preserved our union for posterity.
2. OAKRID_070703_149.JPG: Note "Alaska" and "Hawaii" -- they've updated the upper deck to include states that weren't around when either Lincoln was president or the tomb was erected.
3. OAKRID_070703_160.JPG: This is where they're doing work restoring the upper deck of the Lincoln tomb.
4. OAKRID_070703_185.JPG: John R. Tanner, Governor of Illinois, 1897-1901.
5. OAKRID_070703_201.JPG: "I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no god" -- Abraham Lincoln
6. OAKRID_070703_211.JPG: GAR section of the cemetery
7. OAKRID_070703_244.JPG: John Kelly, 1783-1823, first settler in Springfield the spring of 1819
8. OAKRID_070703_269.JPG: Receiving Vault: The remains of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) and his son William Wallace "Willie" rested in this receiving vault from May 4, 1865 to December 21, 1865. The receiving vault was built following Oak Ridge Cemetery's dedication in 1860. The vault served as a temporary tomb while burial plans were made or if a grave could not be dug due to frozen ground. Most likely it had been used for interments prior to 1865. On May 4, 1865, nineteen days after his death, the body of President Abraham Lincoln was placed here along with that of his son Willie, who had died at age eleven in the White House on February 20, 1862. The casket bearing his remains was carried to Springfield on the funeral train of the assassinated president. On December 21, 1865, the two caskets were moved to a temporary vault located about half-way up the hillside to your left. A week earlier, the remains of another Lincoln son, Edward "Eddie' Baker (1846-1950), had been transferred to the temporary vault. In 1871, the three were finally interred in the Lincoln Tomb at the top of the hill. According to cemetery records, the receiving vault was used at least twelve times from 1866 to 1873, when its use was discontinued. Conveyed to the State of Illinois in 1946, the vault is today administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency as part of Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site.
9. OAKRID_070703_273.JPG: Receiving vault, which temporarily held Lincoln's remains
10. OAKRID_070703_295.JPG: N. Vachel Lindsay, Poet, 1879-1931.
11. OAKRID_070703_308.JPG: William H. Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, 1818-1891. Engraved on grave: William H. Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's law partner 17 years. Dec. 25, 1818 - Mar. 18, 1891 The struggles of this age and succeeding ages for god and man -- religion -- humanity and liberty with all their complex and grand relations -- may they triumph and conquer forever, is my ardent wish and most fervent soul-prayer. Febry 23, 1858 Wm. H. Herndon
12. OAKRID_070703_319.JPG: The grave in front -- Roy Bertelli (1910-2003) -- has a marker describing him as "Mr. Accordion".
13. OAKRID_070703_325.JPG: Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial
14. OAKRID_070703_330.JPG: Illinois Korean War memorial
15. OAKRID_070703_340.JPG: Illinois World War II memorial
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Wikipedia Description: Oak Ridge Cemetery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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. Lincoln requested for burial. In December her husband's remains were removed to a temporary vault not far from the proposed memorial site. The location of the temporary vault is today marked with a small granite marker on the hill behind the current tomb. In 1871, or 3 years after laborers had begun constructing the tomb, the body of Lincoln and those of the three youngest of his sons were placed in crypts in the unfinished structure.

In 1874, upon completion of the memorial, Lincoln's remains were interred in a marble sarcophagus in the center of a chamber known as the "catacombs," or burial room. In 1876, however, after two Chicago criminals failed in an attempt to steal Lincoln's body and hold it for ransom, the National Lincoln Monument Association hid it in another part of the memorial. When Mrs. Lincoln died in 1882, her remains were placed with those of Lincoln, but in 1887 both bodies were reburied in a brick vault beneath the floor of the burial room.

By 1895, the year the State acquired the memorial, it had fallen into disrepair. During a rebuilding and restoration program in 1899-1901, all five caskets were moved to a nearby subterranean vault. In the latter year, State officials returned them to the burial room and placed that of Lincoln in the sarcophagus it had occupied in 1874-1876. Within a few months, however, at the request of Robert Todd Lincoln, the President's only surviving son, the body was moved to its final resting place, a cement vault 10 feet below the surface of the burial room. In 1930-1931 the State reconstructed the interior of the memorial. Rededicated in the latter year by President Hoover, it has undergone little change since that time.

The tomb is in the center of a 12 1/2 acre (51,000 m�) plot. Constructed of Massachusetts granite, it has a rectangular base surmounted by a 117-foot-high obelisk and a semicircular entrance way. A bronze reproduction of sculptor Gutzon Borglum's head of Lincoln in the U.S. Capitol rests on a pedestal in front of the entrance way. Four flights of balustraded stairs—two flanking the entrance at the front and two at the rear—lead to a level terrace. The balustrade extends around the terrace to form a parapet.

In the center of the terrace, a large and ornate base supports the obelisk. On the walls of the base are 37 ashlars, or hewn stones, cut to represent raised shields, each engraved with the name of a State at the time the tomb was built. Each shield is connected to another by two raised bands, and thus the group forms an unbroken chain encircling the base. Four bronze statues adorn the corners of the latter. They represent the infantry, navy, artillery, and cavalry of the Civil War period. In front of the obelisk and above the entrance stands a full-length statue of Lincoln.

The interior of the memorial, constructed of marble from Minnesota, Missouri, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Utah, Italy, Spain, France, and Belgium, contains a rotunda, burial room, and connecting corridors. A replica of the Daniel C. French statue in the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., dominates the entrance foyer. The walls of the rotunda are decorated with 16 marble pilasters, which are separated by marble panels. The pilasters symbolize Lincoln and the 15 Presidents who preceded him. The room also contains 36 bronze panels, one for each State at the time of Lincoln's death. The ceiling is of palladium leaf.

Corridors lead from the rotunda to the burial room at the rear of the memorial. Located in niches along the corridor walls are eight statues by prominent sculptors depicting various phases of Lincoln's life. Four bronze tablets on the walls are engraved with the Farewell Address, the Gettysburg Address, a portion of the Second Inaugural Address, and a biographical sketch. Large gold stars in sets of 12 at each corner of the memorial represent the 48 States in the Union at the time of its remodeling.

The burial room features black and white marble walls and a ceiling of gold leaf. At its center stands the cenotaph, a 7-ton block of reddish marble inscribed with Lincoln's name and the years he lived. It marks the approximate location of the burial vault. Nine flags are arranged in a semicircle around the cenotaph. Seven of them—the State flags of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois—commemorate the homes of Lincoln and his ancestors. The eighth and ninth are the Stars and Stripes and the Presidential flag. The inscription "Now he belongs to the ages," reputedly spoken by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton at the time of Lincoln's death, is inscribed in the wall above the U.S. Flag. Along the south wall of the burial room are five crypts containing the remains of Mrs. Lincoln and three of Lincoln's four sons.

The tomb was built with additional crypts for members of Lincoln's family in addition to the five spaces already used. However, the remaining members of Lincoln's family had decided not to be buried at the tomb. As a result the other crypts remain empty.

It was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1960, and automatically listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.

The upper deck at the back of the tomb is currently undergoing restoration.

The Museum of Funeral Customs is located near Oak Ridge Cemetery and features scale models of Lincoln's funeral train and a full-size reproduction of Lincoln's coffin.
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