Records of the U.S. House of Representatives. 1789 - 2015. Petitions and Memorials. 1831 - 1927. Petition of Mary Todd Lincoln requesting a pension
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Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. She served as First Lady from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 at Ford’s Theatre. Daughter of Eliza Parker and Robert Smith Todd, pioneer settlers of Kentucky, Mary lost her mother before the age of seven. Her father remarried; and Mary remembered her childhood as “desolate” although she belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with high-spirited social life and a sound private education. Just...
