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Oak Ridge Cemetery
Oak Ridge Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Abraham Lincoln's tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
Location:	Springfield, Illinois
Built/Founded:	1855
Architect:	William Saunders
Architectural style(s):	Classical Revival, Romanesque
Governing body:	Local
Added to NRHP:	August 4, 1995
NRHP Reference#:	95000986

Oak Ridge Cemetery is a cemetery located in Springfield, Illinois in the United States.

Lincoln's 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.^[2]

The Cemetery has memorials for the Korean War, World War II and the Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

[edit] Notable burials

William Henry Bissell
John Cook
Shelby Moore Cullom
Ninian Edwards
William Lee D. Ewing
William Herndon
Elijah Iles
William Jayne
John J.H. Kelly (Medal of Honor)
John L. Lewis
Abraham Lincoln - Sixteenth President during the Civil War
Mary Todd Lincoln - Abraham's wife
Vachel Lindsay
John Alexander McClernand
John Riley Tanner
Arthur Harrison Wilson (Medal of Honor)

[edit] Gallery

Korean War Memorial	Close up of Korean War Memorial	Battle of Chosin Reservoir Memorial	Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial close up	World War II Memorial	The European Theater side of the World War II Memorial	Lincoln's Tomb Burial room
Lincoln's Tomb Custodian's Residence	Governor John Riley Tanner's tomb