In the 1950's the New York Times published text of a letter, discovered in a New Jersey attic, by a woman giving her eyewitness account of President Lincoln's death.
In the letter she recounted being awoken the night of April 14, 1865 and taken by carriage to a house where Lincoln lay dying and how she comforted her friend named Mary Lincoln, staying through the night-long vigil and in the morning taking Mary Lincoln, the lonely widow, back to the White House.
The letter was written by Mrs. Elizabeth L. Dixon, my great-great grandmother. In 2000, a curious urge prompted me to follow up to confirm or dispel this supposed friendship shared by the Lincolns and my family so with little more to go on than the 1950s New York Times article I set out combing history books and online sources for articles about Lincoln. Posted on this blog are the relics and footprints discovered.
In the letter she recounted being awoken the night of April 14, 1865 and taken by carriage to a house where Lincoln lay dying and how she comforted her friend named Mary Lincoln, staying through the night-long vigil and in the morning taking Mary Lincoln, the lonely widow, back to the White House.
The letter was written by Mrs. Elizabeth L. Dixon, my great-great grandmother. In 2000, a curious urge prompted me to follow up to confirm or dispel this supposed friendship shared by the Lincolns and my family so with little more to go on than the 1950s New York Times article I set out combing history books and online sources for articles about Lincoln. Posted on this blog are the relics and footprints discovered.
