Letters, April 15-May 1, 1865.

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Letters, April 15-May 1, 1865.

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Letters and telegrams to John T. Stuart, also of the Todd family and friend of the Lincolns, after the assassination regarding Mrs. Lincoln's wish for Mrs. Grimsley, a cousin, to come to Washington and to have the President buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery. Also two letters of C.M. Smith, one with an order to Geo. Bliss & Co. in New York for "black glazed cambric", "bleached cotton" and "French crepe" to be sent to Springfield, Ill. for use there.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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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...

Todd, John B. S. (John Blair Smith), 1814-1872

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Todd was a colonel in the First Volunteer Regiment of Ala. in 1861. From the description of Correspondence, 1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122368256 Relative of Mary Todd Lincoln and friend to both of the Lincolns. With them in Washington at the time of the assassination. From the description of Letters, April 15-May 1, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52332798 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Oak Ridge Cemetery (Springfield, Ill.)

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Grimsley, Elizabeth Todd, 1825-1895.

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Springfield, Illinois, resident; cousin to Mary Todd Lincoln and John Todd Stuart. Married Harrison Grimsley, 1846 and Rev. John H. Brown, 1867. From the description of Six months in the White House, [1894] (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 32363977 Springfield, Illinois, resident; cousin to Mary Todd Lincoln and John Todd Stuart. Married Harrison Grimsley, 1846, and Rev. John H. Brown, 1867. ...