 In response , the Maryland Historical Society published an account in 1913 by then @-@ Baltimore mayor William M. Pegram , who had viewed Booth 's remains upon the casket 's arrival at the Weaver funeral home in Baltimore on February 18 , 1869 , for burial at Green Mount Cemetery . Pegram , who had known Booth well as a young man , submitted a sworn statement that the body he had seen in 1869 was Booth 's . Others positively identifying this body as Booth at the funeral home included Booth 's mother , brother , and sister , along with his dentist and other Baltimore acquaintances . Earlier , The New York Times had published an account by their reporter in 1911 detailing the burial of Booth 's body at the cemetery and those who were witnesses . The rumor periodically revived , as in the 1920s , when a corpse advertised as the " Man Who Shot Lincoln " was exhibited on a national tour by a carnival promoter . According to a 1938 article in the Saturday Evening Post , the exhibitor said he obtained St. Helen 's corpse from Bates ' widow . 
