Talk:Clara Harris

message: Can someone please do a disambugation thing that links to Suburban madness or some other page that describes the what the other Clara Harris is famous for ? -- Nic Roets —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.242.187.18 (talk) 14:27, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clara Harris, the tendist 

message: Does anyone have a cite for the fact that she let Lincoln bleed onto her dress? Seems like a harsh accusation for a long dead woman that was eventually murdered by her husband. 86.19.209.84 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:51, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selling dress for profit 

message: Does anyone have any other information about her grave?? I find it just aweful that the grave was destroyed, and was it destroyed DUE to unattendence? Or was there some other reason? and If this isnt the place to ask these questions please advise me on where to go =)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.172.153.89 (talk) 16:00, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Harris and her husband's graves weren't "destroyed" per se. I read a snippet somewhere that the cemetery in which they were buried sustained heavy damage during World War II (this was "alleged" which is why I didn't include it in the article) so moving some bodies out was more out of necessity. I think the more likely explanation is that they were moved because it was (and may still very well be) a European standard to disinter the bodies of people whose graves are not visited. It may seem awful but there is limited space in most countries which is generally a motivating factor along with money - remember, it costs money for a cemetery to maintain a staff that maintains the grounds, etc. Besides, the bodies aren't just thrown in a ditch. They're either buried elsewhere or cremated. In the Rathbones' case, they were cremated and their ashes were supposedly scattered somewhere. 199.15.104.149 (talk) 12:20, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see how it's a good idea to try to make excuses for the horrendous "European standard to disinter the bodies of people" by fabricating stuff like "limited space in most countries". The money factor is regularly the only determinative one in cases like this, but it is not at all a matter of wages. Cemeteries, usually run by churches (!) make big money on reselling graves, and bodies previously buried are normally not disinterred with any such piety, but just broken up and scattered in the dirt when new burials take place in the prime real estate upon which those cemeteries make huge moolah in reusing unattended graves every 25 years or so. Hence, the covers you often see over the little earth mounds next to them, when such a grave is open for burial, lest people should see just how many old bone pieces are in those mounds. That's the ugly truth (sickening as it is), I'm sad to say. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 02:51, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  About her grave site 

message: Updated as per new info at Commons. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 18:03, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: New image

message: The family section concludes by saying "Henry Rathbone joined the Union Army that year and became major in 1869 upon joining the 5th United States Infantry". However the next section starts "On April 14, 1865, Major Rathbone and his fiancée Clara accepted an invitation...". This would seem to be inconsistent (if not wrong) as if Henry Rathbone only became a major in 1869, the he would not have been "Major Rathbone" in 1865. However every source I have read about the assassination gives major as his rank. My guess would be that either the 1869 date is wrong, or, and I suspect more likely, Rathbone had received a wartime brevet  or temporary promotion to major in the Union Army by 1865, but did not receive promotion to the substantive rank of major in the United States Army until 1869. Whatever the case, I think a bit of rewording is needed here as at the moment the two statements read as is if they contradict each other. Dunarc (talk) 19:04, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Henry Rathbone rank - contradiction? 

message: This page states that he did achieve becoming US Consul, but Rathbone's page and source say that he was unsuccessful and that it was actually his brother who was consul Clayel (talk) 23:54, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictory info if Rathbone achieved US Consul