Show s RELIC OF LINCOLN r when president abraham lincoln mortally wounded was carried from forda theater to the home of william peterson a tailor living across the street he was placed in the room of 13 year old pauline peterson where he breathed his last early the following morning during the night the bloodstained blood stained head of the martyred marty red president had rested on the childs square feather pillow the pillow was reverently preserved by the tailors daughter who afterwards became mrs and upon her death she willed the prize relic to mrs jessie F webster a school teacher with it went an affidavit prepared by mrs before her death as follows this is to certify that the pillow now in possession of jessie F webster of the city of washington D C is the same pillow on which president lincoln died april 15 1865 his death occurred in my room in my old home no tenth street washington D C the pillow now yellow with age still bears its crimson stains and is perhaps the most intimate memento of a national tragedy now in existence it should be preserved in the national museum or other appropriate repository |