Born in Riverside, Illinois — about three hours from where Abraham Lincoln had lived with his family in Springfield — to ...

Home: This is the Mary Todd Lincoln House. It is a 5,500-square ... Distinctive elements: Numerous original and period-appropriate artifacts throughout the home, including framed prints of ...

Mary Todd Lincoln brought psychics into the White House ... Yes, there are historical artifacts -- some of Mary’s jewelry, Lincoln’s eyeglasses. But there are also wax figures displayed ...

Eight of Mary Todd Lincoln's siblings supported the Confederacy ... one of her favorite artifacts displayed in the home. "It's from the White House years," Thompson explained.

Sweet found as his proof a particular photograph of Mary Todd Lincoln wearing earrings ... a famous urologist who died in 2007, collected Lincoln artifacts. Tom Slater, director of Heritage ...

who curated the state’s own collection of Lincoln artifacts between 1994 and 2006. Taken away were items such as Mary Todd Lincoln’s blood-stained fan she was carrying the night her husband ...

The collection includes the bloody gloves Lincoln had in his pocket when he died, his purported stovepipe hat and a large number of Mary Lincoln ... to purchase the artifacts in 2007 from Louise ...