Lincoln Willie Linclon rest in peace...

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President Linclon lost his son Willie and was grief stricken by it. Willie was laid to rest in the Carroll Family Vault in Oak Hill cemetery in D.C., until the Lincoln family return to Illinois. As we know Willie return to Illinois with his father in a casket.

Here is a link to William Carroll Family Vault and mister Carroll play a part in the Lincoln Bible story....

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14448183
 
Here is description of Lincoln visits to Willie in the tomb...

The president purportedly visited the vault several times, and requested the coffin be reopened on at least two occasions. It is said the he could not stand to leave the boy alone in the dark, cold tomb. He would sit with Willie's body for hours on end. While it is impossible to know what went on during Lincoln's visits to the crypt, we can imagine that conversations arose. Conversations that Lincoln would have considered both natural and important in maintaining a spiritual connection with his departed son.

https://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2012/11/29/abraham-lincoln-conversations-with-the-dead/

More details about Willie, he seemed to be a smart ...lad

http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org...ily/family-william-wallace-lincoln-1850-1862/


 
Here is a book about Lincoln visiting Willie in the Carroll tomb. It is a best seller...

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812995341/?tag=civilwartalkc-20
 
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I do not know the Oak Hill cemetery in D.C. or where the Carroll tomb is located or how many tourists visit that cemetery or the Carroll tomb but if it is not heavily visited that might be the only spot in Washington D C where you can stand where Lincoln stood, in front of the tomb. We know he visited the Carroll tomb many times and stood before it before he passed through the iron gates of the tomb to grieve over Willie. It may sound ghoulish but I bet most other places where Lincoln stood in D.C. are hard to access today.
 
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It was very tragic and all too common. Losing a child to disease happened to Davis, the Charles Darwin, to members of Lincoln's cabinet, to many well known figures of the era. This did not lessen the pain, of course.
 

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