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Abraham Lincoln funeral announcement for Eaton, Ohio

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Funeral announcement from the Mayor of Eaton, Ohio requesting that all businesses close during the funeral services and that the people meet in their respective places of worship for the purposes of solemnizing the occasion with appropriate services for President Lincoln in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, April 19, 1865.

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Ohio History Connection

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Use of this item for research, teaching, and private study is permitted with proper citation and attribution, as Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Collection . Reproduction of this item for publication, broadcast, or commercial use requires written permission. For permission, please see this web page.

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Freeman, I. E. . "Abraham Lincoln funeral announcement for Eaton, Ohio". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/274

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Freeman, I. E.

Date

April 18, 1865

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Abraham Lincoln Born, July 12 [sic], 1809--Died, April 15, 1865

Description

This broadside commemorates Abraham Lincoln and includes a quote from William Shakespeare. The broadside mistakenly states the month of Lincoln's birth as July (rather than February).

Source

Bdses 1865, Massachusetts Historical Society

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Unknown. "Abraham Lincoln Born, July 12 [sic], 1809--Died, April 15, 1865". [Boston, Mass.]: Sold, to dealers, by B. B. Russell & Col, 55 Cornhill; Loring, 319 Washington St.; B. J. Remich, 515 Washington St., [1865]. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/276

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Unknown

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[Boston, Mass.]: Sold, to dealers, by B. B. Russell & Col, 55 Cornhill; Loring, 319 Washington St.; B. J. Remich, 515 Washington St., [1865]

Date

1865

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35.8 cm x 28 cm

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A nation mourns her martyr'd son

Description

Created to mourn the death of Abraham Lincoln. Apparently the music is based upon "An Honest Man's the Noblest Work of God."

Source

80.0390

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words by Alice Hawthorne, lyrics by Sep. Winner. "A nation mourns her martyr'd son". printed by Auner's Printing Officer, N.E. Corner of Eleventh and Market, Philadelphia, PA. Distributed by Sep. Winner's Music Store, No. 933, Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA. . Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/255

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words by Alice Hawthorne, lyrics by Sep. Winner

Publisher

printed by Auner's Printing Officer, N.E. Corner of Eleventh and Market, Philadelphia, PA. Distributed by Sep. Winner's Music Store, No. 933, Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA.

Date

1865

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Farewell Father, Friend and Guardian

Description

Memorial sheet music

Source

Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum of Lincoln Memorial University

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Words by LM Dawn; Music by Geo. F Root . "Farewell Father, Friend and Guardian ". Root & Cody . Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/254

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Words by LM Dawn; Music by Geo. F Root

Publisher

Root & Cody

Date

1865

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Song on the death of President Abraham Lincoln

Description

These 2 broadsides are of the same song; one is in color and the other in black & white. Note the tell-tale mark of a memorial piece by the black bars at the edge of the page.

Source

Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum of Lincoln Memorial University

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By Silas S Steele . "Song on the death of President Abraham Lincoln ". J Magee, Philadelphia . Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/253

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By Silas S Steele

Publisher

J Magee, Philadelphia

Date

1865

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The Sad Rites of Yesterday

Description

The Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper issued this editorial in its April 29, 1865 edition, the day after Lincoln's funeral train had stopped in the city and the body of the slain President was on display for the citizens of the city and surrounding towns to view the President and pay their respect. The editorial paints a clear picture of the mood of the citizenry of one of the Northern states after losing the man who guided the nation through the trauma of the Civil War. Lincoln had won the Presidency with the strong support of Cleveland and the State of Ohio both in 1860 and again in 1864. Cleveland was the largest city in the old Western Reserve area of Ohio, with strong abolitionist feelings dating back to the ordinances of the old Northwest Territory that prohibited slavery. The new Republican Party was especially strong in Cleveland.

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The Sad Rites of Yesterday

Friday, Feb. 15th, 1861, the newly elected President, Abraham Lincoln, passed through Cleveland, on his way from his modest home in Springfield, Illinois, to assume control of the national government. Friday, April 28th, 1865, his dead body is brought back to us, over the same route which he traversed in his former journey, followed by mourners to the home which he left four years ago. What a chasm lies between two days! What volumes of history are embraced in the years which seperate them! What convulsions, what changes, what growth, what enlightenment have they wrought in the heart of the nation! A most striking illustration is found in the contrast which exists between this funeral procession and the triumphal progress. When Abraham Lincoln first visited Cleveland he was personally a stranger to us. We had known him only briefly and imperfectly, and though the sanctity of the great office to which he had been elected invested him with dignity and interest, he was still looked upon as a party candidate, place in the Presidential chair by a singular succession of chances, and possessing no remarkable ability or attainments. Now his murdered corpse comes back to us, followed by a nation of mourners, and city after city, along the line of the grand funeral procession, join, with a unanimity as remarkable as it is unprecedented, in demonstrations of affection and grief for the dead. After four years of toil and suffering and sacrifice in the cause of the nation, he had earned so fully the confidence and esteem of the entire people that they mourn for him with one accord as for a father murdered. He has fallen in the summit and culmination of his glory. But one thing was wanting to make his memory something hallowed and immortal. That was martyrdom, and the bullet of the assassin has rounded and perfected his career, while apparently leaving it incomplete and blank.

The grand funeral pageant, of whose progress through the East we have read with a sad interest, has passed through Cleveland. In another column we give a full description of the ceremonies of the day. We merely desire in this place to call attention to the general - the universal-display of sympathy with the character of the day. The whole city, aye and the whole people of Northern Ohio, united in this our last and most palpable demonstration of mourning. This fact was legible everywhere, not more in crape-shrouded blocks, the draped and decorated catafalque, and the imposing procession, than in the quiet sadness and solemnity of every face, the good-order and decorum everywhere prevalent, and the unanimous suspension of other pursuits to join more fully in the general mourning. The day will live to the end of life in the memory of the people who witnessed it, and fifty years from now the children of today will tell their grandchildren how they looked upon the dead face of the Good President, and how they saw him borne upon his funeral way amid the tears of sorrowing millions, while the world looked on in reverent awe!

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www.wrhs.org

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Permission for personal or research use; publication or reproduction requires written permission from the Western Reserve Historical Society.

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Cleveland Morning Leader. "The Sad Rites of Yesterday". Cleveland Morning Leader. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/226

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Cleveland Morning Leader

Publisher

Cleveland Morning Leader

Date

April 29, 1865

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Mayor's Office, April 15th, 1865 Whereas, We are informed of the death of Abraham Lincoln.

Description

This broadside distributed by the Mayor of Gardiner, Maine, (N. O. Mitchell) focuses on the death of President Lincoln. The broadside asks citizens of the town to gather at their places of worship on April 16, 1865, and pray to God, "imploring his Divine assistance at this time of our great country's peril."

Source

Bdses 1865 Apr. 15; Massachusetts Historical Society

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Gardiner (Me.). Mayor.. "Mayor's Office, April 15th, 1865 Whereas, We are informed of the death of Abraham Lincoln.". [Gardiner, ME.: s.n., 1865]. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/227

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Gardiner (Me.). Mayor.

Publisher

[Gardiner, ME.: s.n., 1865]

Date

April 15, 1865

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"Signifcant [sic] Letter."

Description

Excerpt of a letter from Ward Hill Lamon, former U.S. Marshal, to President Johnson. In it Lamon, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, explains the late president’s plans for restoring the Union after the war: “I was made entirely certain by his own repeated declarations to me, that he would exert all his authority, power and influence to bring about an immediate reconciliation between the two sections of the country…All the energies of his nature were given to a vigorous prosecution of the war while the rebellion lasted, but he equally determined upon a vigorous prosecution of peace as soon as the armed hostility should end.” Published in The Selma Morning Times on April 14, 1866.

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Excerpt from the The Selma Morning Times, item number 24.0046. Catalog record for this title is available here.

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The Selma Morning Times. ""Signifcant [sic] Letter."". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/230

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The Selma Morning Times

Date

April 14, 1866

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Mourning Badge

Description

This mourning badge was created to commemorate Lincoln's death and was most likely worn in the period of national mourning following the assassination. It is rectangular in shape and tapers to a point at the bottom, with a blue tassel hanging from the end. The top features a blue floral design, underneath which are the words "Assassinated at Washington 14 April 1865," and Lincoln's words "I Have Said Nothing But What I Am Willing to Live by, and if it be the Pleasure to Almighty God, to Die By. (A. Lincoln." Underneath this quote is an eagle and shield design with an oval Lincoln portrait. At bottom are the words "The Late Lamented President Lincoln" in floral motif atop two crossed flags. The words "T. Steven Coventry" appear on the back, and it is likely that this is the maker.

Source

Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum of Lincoln Memorial University

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T. Steven Coventry. "Mourning Badge ". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/239

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T. Steven Coventry

Date

1865

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The Apotheosis

Description

This carte-de-visite memorial card shows George Washington welcoming Lincoln into heaven with a laurel wreath. There is a shaft of light above the Presidents' heads with angels visible inside. The caption reads: "Washington & Lincoln-(Apotheosis.) Stamped on the back is the phrase: "Joseph Ward, Looking Glasses and Picture Frames 125 Washington St. Boston." The card was most likely produced in the period shortly following Lincoln's assassination.

Source

80.0392

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Joseph Ward, Looking Glasses and Picture Frames 125 Washington St. Boston. "The Apotheosis ". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/240

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Joseph Ward, Looking Glasses and Picture Frames 125 Washington St. Boston

Date

1865