Identifier: reminiscencesabomemimlinc (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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bridge across the Mis-sissippi river, with the IT. s. govern-ment ns plaintiff. The last time Isaw him in life was in Champaign,Til , at the close of the spring term ofthe circuit court. I never saw himagain until T saw his inanimate formon the way to the tomb in 1.S65. I SuU ! ( Miller, Stephen LINCOLN GUARD DIES Stephen Miller, one of Consho-hockens two remaining Civil Warveterans, who served as a guard atthe bier of President Lincoln inWashington in 1865, died suddenlyyesterday. Mr. Miller, who was 91, was talk-ing with John Stewart, assistantpostmaster at the Conshohockenpostoffice, 3d and Forrest sts., whenhe fell dead. He had walked to thepostoffice from his home, 223 10thst., a mile away. He was a memberof the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry. He is survived by his daughter,Mrs. William H. Murray, with whomhe lived; his widow, and two sons,Myron Miller, of Collingswood, andCharles Miller, of Conshohocken. fu a ♦ * Milligan, Mrs. Caleb Assassination Witnessed Emancipators Murdei *m
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- ■ *— A7/TJT CALE& rfJLUGAM TODAy (Plain. Dealer Special! SEATTLE, Wash., April 14.—Just63 years ago today, Mrs. Caleb Milli-gan, now 80 years old, witnessed theassassination of President AbrahamLincoln in Ford Theater, Washington.She is probably the only living per-son who witnessed the Emancipatorsmurder. Mrs. Milligan, who lives in thelittle navy yard city of Bremerton,near here, is the second cousion ofJefferson Davis. She was 17 at thetime of the assasination but remem-bers every detail perfectly. She had slipped away from hermothers house to attend the per-formance of Our American Cousin,in company with another cousin, thewife of the janitor of the theater. It is in my mind as though itwere yesterday, says Mrs. Milligan,though I did not realize what hadhappened until several minutes afterit was over. When we heard a shot fired inone of the boxes we thought it wasa part of the play. Then JohnWilkes Booth jumped from PresidentLincolns box to the stage, but hisspur caugh

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