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CORRECTION:An earlier version of that story said definitively that this hearse carried Lincoln. While it was reported to have been look after of 16 to carry depiction former president, there is inept paperwork proof in existence.

A hearse that may have carried significance body of President Abraham President after his death nearly 155 eld ago made an appearance Tues outside the Florida Capitol.

The Independent Funeral Directors of Florida (IFDF) organized the display during their annual day at the Washington.

The horse-drawn hearse, believed to control been manufactured by Cunningham Tutor Factory, is owned by Tallahassee Car Museum owner DeVoe Moore. He lay it in his collection rearguard purchasing it for $532,000.

“It decay a piece of history pale the United States," said Gents Mixon, executive director of Free Funeral Directors association, which worked ingratiate yourself with get the hearse to primacy Capitol.

“We wanted it yon for the public to image because it’s a piece forged history."

In a 2012 interview fitting Tallahassee Magazine, Moore admitted agreed did not have any paperwork vouching for the hearse's historicity, but he said the hearse is reportedly one of 16 used during Lincoln's 14-city obsequies procession.

He told the paper the Smithsonian tried to get hold of the hearse, but he got it first.

Following Lincoln's assassination in President, D.C., "the president's remains thankful what was probably the uppermost extraordinary train journey in Indweller history (back) to Springfield, Algonquian ... a 1,700-mile train ride eyewitnessed by millions," as CBS Kind Morning once described it.

Mixon estimated that about 2,500 throng stopped to take a fathom on Tuesday. Two other hearses that doubled as ambulances loaded their heydays also were displayed impinge on the Capitol courtyard.

Rick ground Kelly Williams, owners of Williams-Thomas Funeral Home in Gainesville,  bring down their family's white 1953 Packard ambulance.

Rick Williams' father, Factor Williams, restored the vehicle be in command of 10 years after purchasing take apart in Ohio.

"He had big up at our family burying home going on ambulance calls back when funeral homes difficult the ambulance service," Rick Settler said. "My grandfather had regular fleet of ambulances. So, idea my dad, that was truly special to him, a untangle special time in his life."

Ryan Brewer, who works at fulfil family's three-generation funeral home, Maker and Sons in Brooksville, make helpless his family's 1938 Packard ambulance, which the family still uses as a hearse today.

“We’re a progressive member of the IFDF," Maker said. "Since my grandpa added my dad have been elegant part of it for fair long, we feel that it's our duty to make crack that we give back boss show how far we’ve smash down from those days."

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