The last surviving person to view the face of Lincoln. An exercise in creepy...

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5. Grim but interesting actually. And bizarre like the search and exhumation of JOHN PAUL JONES

body in Paris where he died in 1792. The American Revolutionary war hero was b. 1747 in Scotland, became a seaman and worked in the West Indies. When in Virginia in 1775 Jones joined the American Rebels and the Continental Navy. His travels took him to the Court of Catherine the Great of Russia and then Paris where he died of an illness. Around 1899 there was renewed interest in the French burial site location of the American Naval hero. After search and discovery in Paris the remains were transported back to the US in 1905 and to a final resting place of honor in Annapolis, MD.

*Graphic Images, Warning-

http://www.seacoastnh.com/Maritime-History/John-Paul-Jones/is-this-john-paul-jones-corpse/