Mary Todd Lincoln

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As played by Sally Field, she laments that all people will remember is "I was crazy and I ruined your happiness" Mary Todd Lincoln DD $1,200 DJ FIRST LADIES 2020-10-19 #8261
She volunteered as a nurse at Union hospitals & toured Union army camps with her husband Mary Todd Lincoln $200 J FIRST LADIES 2018-04-11 #7738
(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a presidential library.) In letters from 1840, she wroteboth wayson the page to save paper & money; ironically, she was pilloried by the press for spending too much as First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln $400 J FIRST LADIES 2011-12-09 #6265
Before marrying the future president, she dated his political rival Stephen Douglas Mary Todd Lincoln $800 DJ FIRST LADIES 2006-03-08 #4953
What a shopper! In the 1860s she reportedly bought 300 pairs of gloves during one 4-month period Mary Todd Lincoln $600 J FIRST LADIES 2006-02-02 #4929
1861-1865 Mary Todd Lincoln $200 J FIRST LADIES' TERMS OF SERVICE 2005-04-05 #4747
She was 5 foot 2, eyes of blue, & a member of Kentucky's high society Mary Todd Lincoln DD $1,000 J FIRST LADIES 2003-05-05 #4311
Her feelings about thespians might have been improved when Sarah Bernhardt reportedly saved her life in 1880 Mary Todd Lincoln DD $2,800 J FIRST LADIES 2001-10-25 #3944
She once said that of all her sorrows, the death of her son Tad, at 18, hurt the most Mary Todd Lincoln $100 J FIRST LADIES 2000-12-05 #3742
In 1875, after 3 months in a mental institution, she was released in the custody of her sister in Springfield, Ill. Mary Todd Lincoln $200 J MORE FIRST LADIES 1999-01-08 #3305
Sadly, she was declared insane on May 19, 1875 & tried to commit suicide that evening Mary Todd Lincoln $400 J FIRST LADIES 1997-06-10 #2957
Too distraught, she did not attend the 1865 funeral of her assassinated husband Mary Todd Lincoln $200 DJ FIRST LADIES 1997-05-13 #2937
After her release from a mental hospital in 1875, she moved to France & lived there until 1880 Mary Todd Lincoln $600 DJ FIRST LADIES 1996-03-08 #2660
In 1839 she moved to Springfield, Illinois to live with her sister Elizabeth Mary Todd Lincoln $400 J FIRST LADIES 1996-02-15 #2644
In 1875 a jury decided this former first lady was insane; in 1876 another jury declared her sane Mary Todd Lincoln $500 J FIRST LADIES 1994-09-20 #2307
When her son Willie died, she bought expensive mourning clothes & special mourning jewelry Mary Todd Lincoln $800 DJ FIRST LADIES 1994-05-27 #2255
Part of her Meissen collection is on display at her family home in Lexington, Kentucky Mary Todd Lincoln $600 DJ FIRST LADIES 1993-06-04 #2030
This first lady met her husband at the home of her sister in Springfield, Illinois Mary Todd Lincoln $200 DJ FIRST LADIES 1993-02-12 #1950
Sadly, she was committed to an asylum in 1875 Mary Todd Lincoln $100 J FIRST LADIES 1992-11-26 #1894
When she met Abe, he said he wanted to dance with her "in the worst way", &, she said later' "He did" Mary Todd Lincoln $100 J FIRST LADIES 1992-10-14 #1863
An extravagant spender, by 1864 her shopping sprees totaled $27,000 Mary Todd Lincoln $800 DJ FIRST LADIES 1992-02-17 #1726
Robert Smith Todd, a banker Mary Todd Lincoln $400 DJ FIRST LADIES' FATHERS 1992-02-04 #1717
The low-cut necklines worn by this 19th century Kentuckian sometimes shocked people Mary Todd Lincoln $500 J FIRST LADIES 1991-04-19 #1540
She had 4 sons but only the oldest, Robert, lived to adulthood Mary Todd Lincoln $200 J FIRST LADIES 1991-04-01 #1526
Overcome with grief, this first lady did not attend her husband's May 4, 1865 burial Mary Todd Lincoln $200 DJ FIRST LADIES 1991-02-12 #1492
Sarah Bernhardt claims she once saved this extravagant first lady from falling to her death on a ship Mary Todd Lincoln $1,000 DJ FIRST LADIES 1991-01-25 #1480
Her loyalty to the government was questioned because she was a Southerner Mary Todd Lincoln $200 J FIRST LADIES 1989-10-23 #1181
She was the only first lady born in Kentucky Mary Todd Lincoln $400 J FIRST LADIES 1989-01-24 #1017
Mary Todd (Mrs.) Lincoln $200 DJ FIRST LADIES 1988-03-09 #818
Since she was raised in Kentucky, many accused her of disloyalty to the Union cause Mary Todd Lincoln $400 J FIRST LADIES 1985-04-08 #151
After 1st breaking the engagement, Lincoln went on to marry her Mary Todd Lincoln $200 J FIRST LADIES 1984-12-05 #63
One of her early suitors was her husband's arch rival, Stephen A. Douglas Mary Todd Lincoln $200 J FIRST LADIES 1984-09-20 #9
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