1870Ĭongress passes a bill to provide Mary with an annual pension of $3,000. Mary and Tad travel to Europe, where they will remain for several years, living in Germany and England and traveling to attractions on the Continent and British Isles. Lincoln’s estate is distributed between Mary, Robert, and Tad. 1867Īs part of an effort to raise funds to pay her debts, Mary attempts to sell her White House wardrobe in a public sale that gets much negative publicity. Mary and sons Robert and Tad move to Chicago in May. John Wilkes Booth shoots Abraham Lincoln while he and Mary are watching a play at Ford’s Theatre on April 14. 1864Ībraham Lincoln is elected to a second term. 1863īenjamin Hardin Helm, the husband of Mary’s half sister Emilie and a Confederate Brigadier General, dies at the Battle of Chickamauga in September.Ībraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address in November. Half brother Aleck Todd, also a Confederate soldier, dies in a friendly fire incident in Louisiana in August.Ībraham Lincoln announces his plans to issue the Emancipation Proclamation in September. Half brother Sam Todd dies at the Battle of Shiloh while serving in the Confederate Army. 1853Ībraham Lincoln is elected president. Son William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln is born in December. 1849įather Robert dies in July, leading to the eventual sale of the Main Street house. House of Representatives and the family visits Lexington on the way to Washington in 1847. 1846Ībraham Lincoln is elected to the U.S. Son Edward "Eddie" Baker Lincoln is born. Mary and Abraham Lincoln are married in the home of Elizabeth Todd Edwards. Mary travels to Springfield, Illinois, for a long visit with her married sister, Elizabeth Todd Edwards. Mary becomes a boarder at a girls’ school operated by Charlotte Mentelle. In May, Robert Todd buys the Main Street house to accommodate his growing family. Mary enters a school operated by Episcopalian minister John Ward.įather Robert marries Betsy Humphreys. Mother Eliza Todd dies after giving birth to her seventh child. Mary Ann Todd is born on December 13 in Lexington, Kentucky. Her parents, Robert and Eliza Todd, three siblings, and three enslaved women live in a house on Short Street.
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