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Oak Ridge Cemetery is a cemetery located in Springfield, Illinois, in the United States. Lincoln Tomb, which serves as the final resting place of Abraham Lincoln, his wife and all but one of his children, is located at Oak Ridge. A number of other prominent politicians and persons from Illinois are also buried at the cemetery. As a result of Lincoln's Tomb, Oak Ridge is the second-most visited cemetery in the United States, after Arlington National Cemetery.〔(www.graveyards.com )〕 Oak Ridge is the 3rd and now only public cemetery in Springfield, the other two cemeteries were the City Cemetery and Hutchinson.〔National Register of Historic Places〕 Oak Ridge was designed by William Saunders as part of the Rural Cemetery Landscape Lawn Style.〔 The location of the cemetery was carefully selected because of the topography, which included rolling hills which was key in the Rural Cemetery Landscape Lawn Style. The many oak trees in the cemetery is how Oak Ridge got its name. The ridge borders low-lying Spring Creek, creating landscaped topography unusual in central Illinois. The newest section, in the southwest, of Oak Ridge opened after 1945. The design follows the Memorial Park style cemetery in which roadways are wider to accommodate vehicles.〔 The Cemetery has memorials for the Korean War, World War II and the Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial. ==Notable burials== *William Henry Bissell *Jacob Bunn *John Whitfield Bunn *Daniel Pope Cook *John Cook *Shelby Moore Cullom *Jesse K. Dubois *Ninian Edwards *William Lee D. Ewing *William Herndon *Elijah Iles *William Jayne *John J. H. Kelly (Medal of Honor) *Robert Carr Lanphier *John L. Lewis *Abraham Lincoln - Sixteenth President; during the Civil War *Mary Todd Lincoln - Abraham's wife *Fleetwood Lindley - the last person to have seen Lincoln's face, in September 1901 *Vachel Lindsay *John Alexander McClernand *Alfred Orendorff *John Carroll Power - first custodian of Lincoln's Tomb *Alexander Starne – Illinois Secretary of State and Illinois Treasurer *John T. Stuart - U.S. Congressman, lawyer, law partner of Abraham Lincoln *John Riley Tanner *Arthur Harrison Wilson (Medal of Honor) *Rev. John Calvin Rice 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oak Ridge Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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