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] 'Historic Flay;Rests Here InBoard Officeforer-sylvanTheyearsSchoolville,GephaDaui Flake, is a n Teachlt;masteiDiiThe Allegany County publicIVJ 1*1 . I «•* tvth ! school system is some richer today pennsthei171 stan(*Point American Her I history, thanks to the generositysvilli °f au®*°r tJie B°ard of Education who is the donor of an. . .historic heirloom, sal- jury| It is a flag from the caisson that teJj; carried the casket of Abraham MC. Lincoln from New York's City Hall i to the Hudson River Station on .(Tuesday, April 25, 1865. ^„llkIt was one of the flags that* adorned the casket of the assassin*SirlDru ’ in emated President on its eventful final (gjmjHe Wash»vertrip from Washington through thejj)orn north s major cities to Springfield.!1893.be 1U- ... _ . lof Ttlon-eralandButlaveCannHold;Several of these flags were ob-i pe tained from the caisson at the end Floyc of the procession in New York City Merit by Zebulon M. Hewitt Sr., father,one of Zebulon M. Hewitt, who is auditor for the Board of Education.Hewitt carefully preserved the Arno flag since his father left it to him Linoi I when he died many years ago.1 The auditor s father had a coach service in New York nearly a hun-^yidred years ago and his teams of ten to 12 coal black horses were tyjjjused for the biggest events of theilshjd*?*ore,wasney,HelrrgramThibrotldrickat 1:IC Tr Lincoln died on the morning of ficiaIniApril 16 after being shot the night I be before by John Wilkes Booth in ^em and Washington s Ford Theatre.At 6 a.m. on Friday, April 21 1865. the funeral train left Washslantis(burg and stopped at Philadelphia where mourners viewed the body of their President from Saturday. April 22, to Tuesday, April 25.On Tuesday the funeral train went to New York where the body theft was placed in the City Hall, ourts Ida M. Tarbell s Life of Abra-jham Lincoln tells of the solemn i R. procession, described as the most i, 28, elaborate in New York up to that irday time, as Lincoln's body was moved$100 on the caisson drawn bv horses•*Mrs. owned and driven by the local o his man’s father.The funeral procession went up junty Broadway, over Fifth Avenue to anng 34th Street, and then to the Hudson laid, j River Station. There the train conation tinued on its way to Springfield, rcenyj The caisson was taken back to the the Hewitt stable where it was ies 101 dismantled and the flags kept by the older Hewitt, iiinal Ralph R. Webster, superintend-Staie ent of schools, has framed the flag in a plastic border, where it will. be preserved from deterioration. son’ He said it will be used in the • J schools to bring the study of the f life of Lincoln a little closer to thepupils.Hewitt has served the Board of I Education as auditor for some 30years.EThHiglbusiWed220j£nigheleeyeaitheamesn the
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Cumberland Sunday Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sun, Jun 10, 1956
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