where was abraham lincoln buried?
Oak Ridge Cemetery
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 Probably unknown to the reburial crew , the headstones on all the graves , previously facing to the east , had been turned to face the West Gate in 1864 . The crew digging up Poe 's remains had difficulty finding the right body : they first exhumed a 19 @-@ year @-@ old Maryland militiaman , Philip Mosher , Jr . When they correctly located Poe , they opened his coffin and one witness noted : " The skull was in excellent condition — the shape of the forehead , one of Poe 's striking features , was easily discerned . " 

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 The exact location within the cemetery of his remains is unknown . While there is a vault beneath the 1858 cenotaph , it contains a time capsule from the time of the monument 's erection . 

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 Rutherford 's burial was delayed for five months due to legal proceedings arising from his desire to be buried at Beth Sarim , which he had previously expressed to three close advisers from Brooklyn headquarters . According to Consolation , " Judge Rutherford looked for the early triumph of ' the King of the East ' , Christ Jesus , now leading the host of heaven , and he desired to be buried at dawn facing the rising sun , in an isolated part of the ground which would be administered by the princes , who should return from their graves . " Based on his claims that resurrected biblical characters would live at Beth Sarim , Rutherford concluded that it was appropriate that his bones be buried on the property . 

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 In February 1861 , the President @-@ elect , Abraham Lincoln , came to the Assembly Room and delivered an address en route to his inauguration in Washington DC . In 1865 , Lincoln 's body was returned to the Assembly Room after his assassination for a public viewing of his body , en route to his burial in Springfield , Illinois . Due to time constraints , only a small fraction of those wishing to pass by the coffin were able to ; the lines to see the coffin were never less than 3 miles ( 4 @.@ 8 km ) long . Nevertheless , between 120 @,@ 000 and 140 @,@ 000 people were able to pass by the open casket and then the bell , carefully placed at Lincoln 's head so mourners could read the inscription , " Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof . " 

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 In 1831 , for the centennial of his birth , a new tomb was constructed to receive his remains . That year , an unsuccessful attempt was made to steal the body of Washington . Despite this , a joint Congressional committee in early 1832 , debated the removal of President Washington 's body from Mount Vernon to a crypt in the Capitol , built by architect Charles Bulfinch in the 1820s during the reconstruction of the burned @-@ out structure after the British set it afire in August 1814 , during the " Burning of Washington " . Southern opposition was intense , antagonized by an ever @-@ growing rift between North and South . Congressman Wiley Thompson of Georgia expressed the fear of Southerners when he said , " Remove the remains of our venerated Washington from their association with the remains of his consort and his ancestors , from Mount Vernon and from his native State , and deposit them in this capitol , and then let a severance of the Union occur , and behold the remains of Washington on a shore foreign to his native soil . " 
