Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-10-05
TWELFTH AND LAST REMOVAL.
Remains of Abraham Lincoln to Be Dis
turbed No More.

turbed No More.
Springfield, ILL.,, Oct. LIN spite OF
the protest of his only living child the
body OF Abraham Lincoln was exposed
TO light Thursday. In the presence or
q small assemblage of men n women
the metallic casket which FOR more
than thirty-six years has contained the
remains of the first martyred president
was forced open. Each or the party
present gazed into the features made
familiar by plate and print. Then the
casket was resealed and placed In what
is intended shall be the final resting
place of the sacred dust-a bed or iron
and masonry fifteen feet below the
base OF the shaft of the National Lin
coin monument.
1t is admitted by several of those who
witnessed the procedure that II was much
more hooking than had been expected. In
fact, ii is generally agreed that had all
the grewsome features of the project been
anticipated, the plan would nave been
Five of the sixteen persons In the as
semblaRe were present when the
coffin was opened fourteen years ago.
They had told their companions OF their
Impressions OF that memorable occasion,
and their had unarmed tha
party for what they were about to behold
According to their memory, the CORPSE
had turned very dark-in fact, almos
black. To the surprise of every one,
when the face was exposed today, II was
as white as chalk. This unexpected dis-
closure served to further increase the
agitation that had been worked up among
the assemblage, and, after an unexpect,
eddy short exposure, the casket was sealed
again.
This made the twelfth removal of the
body, the record being as follows:
May 4, 1S65-Casket containing the booy
OF Abraham Lincoln received In Spring
field, ILL.,, and deposited In the public tomh
In Oak Ridge cemetery.
December Il, lS65-Removed to new brick
vault built to receive II on the east side
Of the national Lincoln monument and
deposited in center crypt In catacomb.
October 8, 1S74-Removed from the cen.
ter crypt and from iron casket to a lead
lined cedar case, and deposited In the
marble sarcophagus in center or cata-
comb room In the monument.
November 7, lS76-In an attempt by
thieves to steal the body, marble sarco-
phagus top and one end removed, and
when the detectives surprised them the
casket had been moved eighteen inches
out through the open end.
November 9, 1S76-By order OF the hoard
! of control the cedar casket was replaced
in the marble sarcophagus, which was re-
stored and sealed.
November Is. 1S76-Removed from rare.
phaguS to rear OF Memorial hall. Their
the same night, to the second corridor
from obelisk, and third, from the cas-
outside wall under the terrace or the ma
tional Lincoln monument ana lelt o'
wooden t%restles.
November IS, 1S~76-Removed from tres
ties and placed In excavation in middle
corridor between the base of obelisk ans
the catacOmb without replacing the earti
removed to receive II.
November %, lS7S-Cedar casket covered
six inches deep and ground leveled dowr
like the rest of the passage ways undel
the terrace Of the monument, and an houl
later the earth was removed n Id O
cedar casket only opened and then closed
the earth replaced and left level.
April II, 1SS7-Removed from the shallow
grave under the terrace and buried In {
mass OF concrete S by S by IL feet dtrectl.
| under catacomb floors. The lead caske
at this time opened and the remains iden
titled by six personal acquaintance or ME
Lincoln.
March 10. 19Oo-Removed from c%oncret'
Cat time the National Lincoln monumEn
was taken DOWN and deposited In a reV
stone Vault built for the purpose In tn,
side Of the terraced hill on which thu
monument Is built.
April "a, l901-Casket removed from tenn
porary stone vault and deposited In tn
marble sarcophagus In the Catacomb o
the newly rebuilt National Lincoln monu
~nent.