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 [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Dolley Madison]] was interred in the Public Vault for two years, the longest known interment in the vault, while funds were being raised for her reinterment at [[Montpelier (Orange, Virginia)|Montpelier]]. Her body was transferred to the Causten family vault, located directly across the path from the Public Vault, for another six years before the funds were raised.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMtziloE7k American Artifacts: Congressional Cemetery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414161557/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMtziloE7k |date=2016-04-14 }}, American History TV, CSPAN3, on YouTube, accessed April 16, 2012.</ref>  First Lady [[Louisa Catherine Adams]] has been reported as having been interred in the Public Vault, but other sources report that she was interred in the Causten family vault.<ref name="PV Post">{{cite news|title=The Public Vault|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/panorama/2006/12/13/PA2006121300640.html|work=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=April 17, 2013|date=December 13, 2006|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305045021/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/panorama/2006/12/13/PA2006121300640.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Cong Cem L Adams">{{cite web|title=First Lady Louisa C. Adams|url=http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/first-lady-louisa-c-adams|publisher=Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery|access-date=April 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009093239/http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/first-lady-louisa-c-adams|archive-date=October 9, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>Johnson and Johnson, p. 139, unequivocally states that Louisa Adams was interred in the Causten family vault the day after her death.</ref> Adams is now buried next to her husband in the [[United First Parish Church]] in Quincy, Massachusetts.
-[[Lewis Powell (conspirator)|Lewis Powell]] is believed to have spent a night in the vault while avoiding pursuit for his role in the assassination of President [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref name="Washian"/>
+[[Lewis Powell (conspirator)|Lewis Powell]] is believed to have spent a night in the vault while avoiding pursuit for his role in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.<ref name="Washian"/>
 ==Grand funerals==
-Several nationally important or otherwise remarkable funerals have taken place at the Congressional Cemetery.  These funerals featured long formal processions starting at the [[White House]] or the [[United States Capitol|Capitol]], moving down [[Pennsylvania Avenue]] to E Street SE, and then to the cemetery. Parts of this road were specially funded by Congress to facilitate these processions.  The form and protocol of these funerals formed the basis for later U.S. [[State funerals in the United States|state funerals]], including those of Presidents [[Abraham Lincoln]] and [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref>Johnson and Johnson, Chapter 2, "The Grand Procession to the National Burial Ground."</ref>
+Several nationally important or otherwise remarkable funerals have taken place at the Congressional Cemetery.  These funerals featured long formal processions starting at the [[White House]] or the [[United States Capitol|Capitol]], moving down [[Pennsylvania Avenue]] to E Street SE, and then to the cemetery. Parts of this road were specially funded by Congress to facilitate these processions.  The form and protocol of these funerals formed the basis for later U.S. [[State funerals in the United States|state funerals]], including those of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref>Johnson and Johnson, Chapter 2, "The Grand Procession to the National Burial Ground."</ref>
 These funerals include those held to honor: