(Joliet, IL) — There’s a new addition to the Lincoln collection in Illinois. Sandy Vasko with the Will County Historical Society last week said that she found a pressed flower that looks to be from Abraham Lincoln’s casket. Vasko says she found the flower in a box that once belonged to Civil soldier and former Joliet mayor, James Elwood. There was also a handwritten note that says the flower came from Lincoln’s casket in Washington D.C. in April of 1865.
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