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Warm Springs, Georgia, was a favorite place of Franklin D. Roosevelt, even before he was president. A famous victim of polio, he founded a polio treatment center there in the late 1920s. In late March 1945, an exhausted Roosevelt returned to the Little White House for a much-needed rest.

While sitting for a portrait in his Warm Springs cottage on the afternoon of April 12, the 32nd president had a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke) and died. He was only 63 years old.

Few people were aware of Roosevelt鈥檚 precarious health. He had very high blood pressure (numbers like 260/150), congestive heart failure and possibly melanoma. He was weakened by post-polio syndrome. He also felt 鈥渢he enormous stresses of overseeing the nation鈥檚 recovery from the Great Depression and heading up the wartime coalition to defeat the Germans, Japanese and their allies,鈥� according to the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.

FDR was inaugurated for an unprecedented fourth term Jan. 20, 1945. In the 80 years since FDR鈥檚 passing stunned the world, only President John F. Kennedy died while still serving. He was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963.

Vice President Harry Truman took the oath of office later that same Thursday after FDR鈥檚 passing. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who, typically, had stayed in Washington, flew to Georgia. She returned to Washington on the special 10-car train that carried FDR鈥檚 coffin to Washington and then to Hyde Park, New York.

The funeral train was the same that took the president and entourage to Warm Springs. The train, including the heavily armored presidential Pullman car named Ferdinand Magellan, moved with great attention to security. It was wartime, with the Battle of Okinawa underway in the Pacific theatre. In Europe, the Allies (U.S., British, Russian) were marching to Berlin. Nazi Germany would surrender in May.

The train was on the Southern Railway, long since merged into Norfolk Southern, which passes through Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina. Historic photos show South Carolinians along the Southern line as the train passed through the Upland.

鈥淗undreds of thousands of people, many with tears in their eyes, lined the train route carrying his body from Georgia to Washington, D.C., and then on to Hyde Park, to pay their final respects,鈥� historian William E. Leuchtenburg wrote for the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

In her autobiography, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote that she 鈥渓ay in my berth all night with the window shade up, looking out at the countryside he loved and watching the faces of the people at stations, and even at the crossroads, who came to pay their last tribute all through the night.鈥�

The first lady wrote of FDR鈥檚 death: 鈥溾�� through this was a terrible blow, somehow you had no chance to think about it as a personal sorrow. It was the sorrow of all those to whom this man, who now lay dead, and who happened to be my husband, had been a symbol of strength and fortitude.鈥�