Show fate of john wilkes booth john wilkes booth after he shot abraham lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by sergeant boston corbett of the sixteenth new york cavalry at a m wednesday april 26 1865 when he tried to escape from a burning barn on a farm of a family named garratt near bowling green and fort royal va where he had hidden after his escape from fords theater booths body was secretly buried in a grave under the stone floor of a cell in the arsenal side of washington penitentiary after four years the body was disinterred and re buried in the booth family plot in greenmount Green mount cemetery baltimore |