Anna M. Marcotte, née Hughes; born in Williamsport, Pa., 22 Oct. 1842; married firstly Amos B. Rhodes, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army who was killed in the Battle of Shelbyville in June 1863, after which she worked in the Treasury Dept.; married secondly Henry Marcotte (d. 1923), captain in the U.S. Army, whom she accompanied to frontier postings in the Dakotas in the 1870s; they moved in 1886 to St. Augustine, Fla., where she was a newspaperwoman, founding editor of the Tatler, and a civic organizer; she died 9 Nov. 1935 in New York, N.Y., to which she had moved in 1925. See New York Times obituary, 11 Nov. 1935; and newspaper extracts containing biographical information, transcribed on rootsweb page with reciprocal links to the St. Augustine Genealogy Homepage.
From the description of Personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, 1926 Feb. 24. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 260630359
