Fleetwood Lindley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Last surviving person to have seen the face of Abraham Lincoln
Date of Birth: 04-Apr-1887
Place of Birth: Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 01-Feb-1963
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Fleetwood Lindley
- After the April 14, 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, a three-week series of events mourned his death and memorialized his life.
- Funeral services and lyings in state were held in Washington, D.C., and then in additional cities as a funeral train transported his remains for burial in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois.
- Lincoln's eldest son Robert Todd rode the train to Baltimore and then disembarked and returned to the White House.
- Lincoln's wife Mary Todd Lincoln remained at the White House because she was too distraught to make the trip.
- Robert took a later train to Springfield for his father's final funeral and burial. The remains of Lincoln's younger son, William Wallace Lincoln (1850–1862) were also placed on the train, which left Washington, D.C., on April 21 at 12:30 pm and traveled 1,654 miles (2,662 km) never exceeding 20 mph to the final stop at Springfield, arriving on May 3.
- Several stops, in principal cities and state capitals, were made along the way in which ceremonies and processions were held.
- The train largely retraced the route Lincoln had traveled to Washington as the president-elect on his way to his first inauguration, more than four years earlier.
- Millions of Americans viewed the train along the route, and participated in the ceremonies and processions. Lincoln was interred on May 4, 1865 at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield.
- The site of the Lincoln Tomb, now owned and managed as a state historic site, is marked by a 117-foot (36 m)-tall granite obelisk surrounded with several bronze statues of Lincoln, and soldiers and sailors constructed by 1874.
- Mary Todd Lincoln and three of their four sons, Willie, Eddie, and Tad are also buried there.
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