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Death and burial

Use as a topical subdivision under names of individual persons for works on the person's death, funeral, or burial, including the person's last illness.

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• Biography

• Al Fayed, Dodi -- Death and burial
• Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Death and burial
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Death and burial
• Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961-1997 -- Death and burial
• Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553 -- Death and burial
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Death and burial
• Foster, Vincent W., 1945-1993 -- Death and burial
• Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Death and burial
• Hill, Joe, 1879-1915 -- Death and burial
• Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 -- Death and burial
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Death and burial
• Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 -- Death and burial
• Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 -- Death and burial
• Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Death and burial
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Death and burial
• Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 -- Death and burial
• Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Death and burial
• Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Death and burial
• Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852 -- Death and burial

• Biography -- Death and burial
• Biography -- Last years and death
• Funeral and memorial services
• Funeral
• Interment
• Last illness

• The Operation Paget Inquiry Report Into the Allegation of Conspiracy to Murder Diana, Princess of Wales and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (2006), by Great Britain Metropolitan Police Service (PDF at the BBC)

• The Iniquity: A Sermon in the First Church, Dorchester, on Sunday Dec. 11, 1859, by Nathaniel Hall (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (based on the 1858 E. Moxon edition, with annotated names), by Edward John Trelawny, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)
• Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece: Containing an Account of the Military and Political Events Which Occurred in 1823 and Following Years; With Various Anecdotes Relating to Lord Byron, and an Account of His Last Illness and Death (based on the 1831 J. Rodwell edition, with annotated names), by Julius Michael Millingen, ed. by David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)

• The Operation Paget Inquiry Report Into the Allegation of Conspiracy to Murder Diana, Princess of Wales and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed (2006), by Great Britain Metropolitan Police Service (PDF at the BBC)

• Beware the Cat; and The Funerals of King Edward the Sixth (New London: Connecticut College, 1963), by William Baldwin, ed. by William P. Holden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Funeralles of King Edward the Sixt, Wherein are Declared the Causers and Causes of His Death, by William Baldwin (HTML with commentary at usask.ca)

• As He Lay Dead, a Bitter Grief (as originally published in Life Magazine, July 20, 1962), by William Styron (page images at Google)

• Failure of the Public Trust, by John H. Clarke, Patrick J. Knowlton, and Hugh Turley (PDF and partial HTML with commentary at fbicover-up.com)
• Report on the Death of Vincent W. Foster, Jr. (1997; with footnotes and appendix), by Kenneth Starr, contrib. by Patrick J. Knowlton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fbicover-up.com)

• Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. (Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1791), by William Smith (page images here at Penn)

• Remains to be Seen: Tracing Joe Hill's Ashes in New Zealand (2011), by Jared Davidson (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)

• After Sixteen Years of Silence: (On Trotsky's Article: "Did Stalin Poison Lenin?") (1940), by Leninist League USA (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist (Worcester: C. Hamilton, 1865), by Alexander H. Bullock (HTML and page images at Emory)
• An Address: Delivered on Request of the Congregation, at the Place of Worship of the Hebrew Association, Temimi Derech, at New Orleans, on Saturday, April 29th, 1865 (New York: Slater and Riley, printers, 1865), by P. J. Joachimsen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Address in Commemoration of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia: Sherman and Co., 1865), by George Dana Boardman (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Character and Death of Abraham Lincoln (Auburn, NY: W. J. Moses; New York, Sheldon and Co., 1865), by Henry Fowler (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Commemorative Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln (Worcester, MA, 1865), by Seth Sweetser (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Curtained Throne: A Sermon, Suggested by the Death of President Lincoln (Philadelphia: J. S. Claxton, 1865), by Robert F. Sample (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Death of President Lincoln (Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1865), by Morgan Dix (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Death of President Lincoln: A Sermon Delivered in the Unitarian Church in Archdale Street, Charleston, S.C., Sunday, April 23, 1865 (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1865), by Charles Lowe (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Death of President Lincoln: A Sermon, Preached in Grace Church, Orange, N.J., Easter, April 16, 1865 (Orange, NJ: E. Gardner, 1865), by James Smith Bush
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Death, the Law of Life: A Discourse Delivered on the Sunday Morning After the Murder of President Lincoln (Philadelphia: Sherman and Co., 1865), by George Dana Boardman (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Discourse Delivered on the Day of the Funeral of President Lincoln (New York: Press of J. M. Bradstreet and Son, 1865), by John McClintock, contrib. by J. T. Butts (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Discourse Delivered on the Occasion of the Funeral Obsequies of President Lincoln (Boston: Rand and Avery, 1865), by Seth Reed (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Discourse in Memory of Our Late President, Abraham Lincoln (Holliston: Plimpton and Clark, 1865), by J. T. Tucker (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln (Albany: J. Munsell, 1865), by Warren Hathaway (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln (Boston: J. K. Wiggin, 1865), by A. L. Stone (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia: H. B. Ashmead, 1865), by Frank L. Robbins (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln (Rochester, NY: C. D. Tracy and Co., 1865), by Thomas Tousey (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Discourse on the Death of President Lincoln (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1865), by Denis Wortman (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Discourse on the Occasion of the Death of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia: J. B. Rodgers, 1865), by Morris C. Sutphen (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln (Hartford: A. N. Clark and Co., 1865), by Henry Champion Deming (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Funeral Address Delivered at the Burial of President Lincoln (New York: Carlton and Porter, 1865), by Matthew Simpson (HTML and page images at Emory)
• God Seen Above All National Calamities: A Sermon on the Death of President Lincoln (Washington: McGill and Witherow, 1865), by A. D. Gillette (HTML and page images at Emory)
• "God's Ways Unsearchable": A Discourse on the Death of President Lincoln (Pittsburgh: W. G. Johnston and Co., 1865), by Herrick Johnson (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Great Funeral Oration on Abraham Lincoln (New York: American News Co., 1865), by Emma Hardinge Britten (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Great Man Fallen! A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia : Sherman and Co., 1865), by Wilbur F. Paddock (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Humble Conqueror: A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Services of Abraham Lincoln (Boston: William V. Spencer, 1865), by Henry C. Badger (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Memorial Discourse on the Character of Abraham Lincoln (Concord, MA: McFarland and Jenks, 1865), by P. B. Day (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Moses and Joshua: A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln (Boston: Dakin and Metcalf, 1865), by Jeremiah Eames Rankin (HTML at Emory)
• National Disappointment: A Discourse Occasioned by the Assassination of President Lincoln (Buffalo: Breed, Butler, and Co., 1865), by Joel Foote Bingham (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Nation's Sacrifice: Abraham Lincoln (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1865), by A. D. Mayo (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Our National Unity Perfected in the Martyrdom of our President (Philadelphia: Smith, English and Co., 1865), by A. G. Thomas (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Personal Forgiveness and Public Justice: A Sermon Preached in the Mercer Street Presbyterian Church, New York, April 23, 1865 (New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1865), by Robert Russell Booth
  • HTML at Emory
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• President Lincoln's Death: Its Voice to the People (Northampton, MA: Trumball and Gere, 1865), by Gordon Hall (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Providential Significance of the Death of Abraham Lincoln: A Discourse Delivered in the Central M.E. Church, Newark, N.J., on the Day of National Humiliation, June 1st, 1865 (Newark, NJ: H. Harris, 1865), by Robert Boyd Yard (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Reden Gehalten bei der Berliner Todtenfeier für den Präsidenten Lincoln von Amerikanischen, Englischen und Deutschen Geistlichen: Ein Ausspruch der Kirche über Sklaverei und Freie Arbeit (in German; Berlin: C. G. Lüderitz, 1865), ed. by J. J. Sturz
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Sermon, Occasioned by the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States (Brattleboro, VT: Printed at the Vermont Record Office, 1865), by Pliny H. White (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Sermon on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th, 1865 (Canandaigua, NY: N. J. Milliken, 1865), by O. E. Daggett (HTML at Emory)
• Sermon on the Occasion of the Death of President Lincoln (Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood and Company, 1865), by Cephas Bennett Crane (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Sermon on the Services and Death of Abraham Lincoln (1865), by John Falkner Blake (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Sin of Reviling, and Its Work: A Funeral Sermon, Occasioned by the Assassination of President Lincoln, April 14th, 1865 (New York: J. A Gray and Green, 1865), by William R. Gordon (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Strength in Sorrow (Canandaigua: Printed at C. Jobson's Office, 1865), by Christopher Starr Leffingwell (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Teachings of the Crisis: Address Delivered in St. Paul's Church, Camden, N.J., on the Occasion of the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln, April 19, 1865 (Camden, NJ: S. Chew, 1865), by Joseph Fithian Garrison (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Victory and Mourning: A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, NJ: Terhune and Van Anglen's Press, 1865), by Richard H. Steele (HTML and page images at Emory)
• A Sermon on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Troy, NY: A. W. Scribner, 1865), by Marvin R. Vincent (HTML and page images at Emory)
• The Life and Death of Abraham Lincoln, by Phillips Brooks (page images at MOA)
• The Nation's Mourning, by B. J. Relyea (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Sermon on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States, Preached on the Occasion of the National Funeral, by N. L. Rice (HTML and page images at Emory)
• Sermons on Recent National Victories, and the National Sorrow, by Edward Payson Powell (page images at MOA)

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