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Robert Lincoln didn’t attend the play the night his father was assassinated, even though he had been invited. He never forgave himself for declining, according to a memoir of his friend, Nicholas Murray Butler. Robert believed he would have sat at the back of the box where John Wilkes Booth entered, and Booth would have had to contend with Robert to get to President Lincoln.

For Edwin Booth, the assassination devastated him. He was a Lincoln supporter and felt that an honorable man had been killed by his brother. He also felt that the crime would forever tarnish his name.

Edwin Booth as Hamlet

Robert Todd Lincoln

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He looks more like T.S. Elliott’s son than Abraham Lincoln’s.

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Edwin Booth is buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts if anyone is interested. I visited that cemetery many years ago. It's one of those nice garden-type Victorian cemeteries, and it's well kept. Longfellow is buried there. Julia Ward Howe and many others as well.

Find-a-Grave - Edwin Booth.

The rest of the family is buried in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. John Wilkes Booth is buried there but his burial is not noted on the family headstone.

Back in the late 80's, I became acquainted with an elderly couple who owned Tudor Hall, the ancestral home of the Booth family in Bel Air, Maryland. Junius Brutus Booth built the home, but he died before the family moved in. Back then it was a bed and breakfast. The Preservation Association for Tudor Hall was founded to help preserve the home, and encourage study of that period of history. Back then the couple, Dorothy and Howard Fox, held yearly Booth and Lincoln related conferences. When Dorothy, and then Howard passed without Wills, the house was taken over by the County, and the Association became defunct. I was lucky enough to stay at the home several times and attend the conferences they held.