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in 24 schools participated in this1 Historic Fla lt;riRests Here Inforber-thethe'HerwillBoard Officeureenand s sylvai The y$ars Schoovilie, Gephc Daii Flake is a Teacl mastcBal-juryitedMe-The Allegany County public _ school system is some richer today i p^n from the standpoint of American! history, thanks to the generosity of the auditor of the Board of Education who is the donor of anhistoric heirloom.bru-/ in em-DIiIt is a flag from the caisson that carried the casket of Abraham Lincoln from New York's City Hall . ir, to the Hudson River Station on ^ Tuesday, April 25, 1865.It was one ,of the flags that adorned the casket of the assassin*rjrst a*ec* Prudent on its eventful finaloverdvicY He Wasltrip from Washington through the born north s major cities to Springfield. ! jgg3be I1L lof Tnon-lore,andwas*ney,thisCamHulcArneSeveral of these flags were ob-i rc l“^“ljtained from the caisson at the end Floy land5°^ Processi°n in New York City MerlBut by Zebulon M. Hewitt Sr., father oneNave of Zebulon M. Hewitt, who is auditor for the Board of Education.^ Hewitt carefully preserved theflag since his father left it to him Line when he died many years ago. Heir The auditor's father had a coach service in New York nearly a hundred years ago and his teams of ten to 12 coal black horses were used for the biggest events of theWil-alsh,i C.graiT1brotdric at 1day. CficiiIrCenLincoln died on the morning of April 16 after being shot the night II be!before by John Wilkes Booth in ; and: Washington’s Ford Theatre. I stani At 6 a.m. on Friday, April 21,11865. the funeral train left Wash-^ 'issburg and stooped 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 w»s placed in the City Hall, ourts Ida M. Tarbells Life of Abra-|ham Lincoln tells of the solemn n R.;procession, described as the most s, 28, elaborate in New York up to that erday time, as Lincoln's body was moved i $100 on the caisson drawn by horses Mrs,(owned and driven by the local to his man’s father.The funeral procession went up ounty Broadway, over Fifth Avenue to aring 34th Street, and then to the Hudson said. |Rjver Station. There the train con-lation tinued on its way to Springfield, rceny The caisson was taken back to i the r1c Hewitt stable where it wasies 1,1 dismantled and the flags kept bythe older Hewitt, mtnaij Ra)ph r Webster, superintend-i State en{ 0f schools, has framed the flag said j Jn a pjas^c border, where it will||| tyi a, be preserved from deterioration. son j He said it will be used in the ... schools to bring the study of the! y *,, life of Lincoln a little closer to theETHigbusWe220Jnigeleyelthen thei ,pupils.Hewitt has served the Board of Education as auditor for some 30years.
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Cumberland Sunday Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sun, Jun 10, 1956
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