Monthly Archives: June 2025

Robert Lincoln’s letter regarding the Lincoln Tomb, 1901 (photos)

Posted on June 13, 2025 by editor

The letter shown here is part of an online exhibit, “The 100 Most Valuable Documents at the Illinois State Archives.” Robert Todd Lincoln, only surviving son of President Abraham Lincoln, wrote it to Gov. Richard Yates Jr. in June 1901, … Continue reading →

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2-year-old vanishes, 1950

Posted on June 8, 2025 by editor

The final paragraph of this entry has been corrected. Our thanks to reader Bev P. Two-year-old Earnest Cagle Jr. was asleep when his parents went into Cecil Delay’s bar in Buckhart about 11 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27, 1950. He … Continue reading →

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