In due time…..when I shall have paid the debt of Nature, my remains will rest here in your midst with those of my kindred and neighbors. It is possible they may be unhonored, neglected, spurned! But, perhaps, years hence …..some wandering stranger, some lone exile may erect over them a humble stone, and thereon, this epitaph, “He was Faithful.”

Pressed Flowers from Lincoln’s Casket
c. 1865
Oval engraving announcing the death of President Abraham Lincoln. Decorated with pressed flowers from the President's casket. Gifted to Seward after Lincoln’s funeral as Seward was unable to join due to injuries he sustained from his carriage accident and assassination attempt in April 1865.
