BURIAL FOR MRS. WYNKOOP.
Death Tuesday Takes Survivor of Troupe Playing Night Lincoln Was Assassinated.____________ (Illustration on Picture Page.)
Wynkoop, who was buried Thursday, witnessed the assassination of President Lincoln from the stage of Ford's Theater in 1865. Inset is a likeness of her as member of the troupe nearly sixty years ago.1
The body of Mrs. Frank Wynkoop, an actress at the theater where President Lincoln was assassinated, was laid to rest Thursday in Inglewood Mausoleum, after services at the chapel of George A. Fitch. Mrs. Wynkoop's death on Tuesday leaves, it is believed, only two survivors of the troupe that played in Ford's Theater at Washington the night of April 14, 1865. She died Tuesday at her home, 232 East Avenue 38, at the age of 78 years.
She and her mother had pawned their jewelry to go to Washington to intercede with the President--it was In the closing days of the war when Federal troops occupied most of Virginia, where her home was--so she remained in Washington and obtained a small part in the Ford Theater Stock Company.
With other members of the company, she was under suspicion for several days and was not permitted to leave Washington, though she was at no time arrested. Because of her southern birth, she was not allowed to leave until the following autumn, when she went to New York and got a stage engagement
Sources: [1] Unknown, "Looking Through the Lens at Bits of Life," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Saturday, 3 May 1924, p. 6. [2] Unknown, "Burial For Mrs. Wynkoop, Death Tuesday Takes Survivor of Troupe Playing Night Lincoln Was Assassinated," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Saturday, 3 May 1924, p. A5.
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