A judge in Washington, D.C. who allows Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln to inter Willie in his crypt until the president and his family return to their home state of Illinois, where they plan to bury Willie on their own plot. This aspect of Lincoln in the Bardo is historically accurate, as Willie Lincoln lay in Judge Carroll’s crypt until 1865, when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and transferred to Illinois along with his son.
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Judge Carroll Character Timeline in Lincoln in the Bardo
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Chapter 7
...be temporarily interred. “They have been loaned a place in the crypt belonging to Judge Carroll,” Isabelle writes. It is now nighttime, and she assures her brother that she’s grown accustomed...
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Chapter 9
...voice, despite his startled demeanor. “I believe we have the honor of addressing a Mr. Carroll,” says Mr. Bevins, but the young boy only stares at him blankly. “No doubt you...
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Chapter 23
...dangled almost to the ground. The President, he writes, asked for the key to the Carroll crypt, which Manders gave him without question. “I handed it over and watched him wander...
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Chapter 107
...final entry in the cemetery logbook, explaining that he has just returned from visiting the Carroll crypt to make sure everything is all right. Inside, he saw Willie Lincoln’s coffin poking...
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