On this day in history

On this day (penultimate April) in history, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train arrived in Cleveland OH, following his assassination on 4/14/1865. As described by Tim Evanson on FB today: The coffins of President Abraham Lincoln and his son Willie [who had died in the White House, of typhoid fever, on 2/20/1862] were under military guard at all times aboard the funeral train. The train consisted of nine cars. The second-to-last car was “United States”, the hearse car containing the bodies of father and son. The city’s church bells tolled mourning as the funeral train arrived at the Union Depot on the lake shore at 6:50 AM. The locomotive L. Case was detached, and the locomotive Dispatch then pulled the train along the tracks west of Spring Street (now W. 10th) to the Euclid St. Station (near the intersection of Old River Rd. and Canal). When the Dispatch reached the station at 7:20 AM, there was a 36-gun salute. An embalmer removed the lid of the coffin to make sure the…