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Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882 [1]) served as the First Lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865.
First lady, wife of President Abraham Lincoln, who served as a leading Washington hostess during the Civil War and endured the deaths of her husband, father, three half-brothers, and three sons over a 16-year span.
If we examine her early years, her most impressionable years, we may find compassion for the woman who was the wife of the 16th president of the United States. Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was born the third child to Eliza Ann Parker Todd and Robert Smith Todd on December 13, 1818.
Mary Todd Lincoln (born December 13, 1818, Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.—died July 16, 1882, Springfield, Illinois) was an American first lady (1861–65), the wife of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States.
- Betty Boyd Caroli
Lincoln was also a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia; his paternal grandfather and namesake, Captain Abraham Lincoln and wife Bathsheba (née Herring) moved the family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky.
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.
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