Quote From Mrs. Lincoln: "My evil genius Procrastination has
whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."
Full Length Photo of Mary
Todd Lincoln 1864 or 1865
Mary Todd Lincoln
Was born on December 13th, 1818 in Lexington, Kentucky. Born into a
wealthy and prominent family, Mary Todd was educated, and moved to
Springfield Illinois. On November 11th, 1842 Mary Todd married Abraham
Lincoln who was a lawyer, and involved with the State Legislator. The
deaths of three of the Lincolns' four sons at early ages and her husband's
assassination at her side in April 1865; Mary Lincoln's later life
extremely unhappy. Despite decent financial situations, she worried
extrodinarially about money, and in 1875, her only surviving son,Robert
Todd Lincoln, had her committed to a sanitarium where she was declared
]sane after less than a year.
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