What is the latest on the Booth DNA Project?

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1. Lock of JWB hair donated (unknown date) by Kate Mason Rowland to The Museum of the Confederacy.

Information on the JWB lock of hair supplied by Robert F. Hancock, Director of Collections - The Museum of the Confederacy. In an email from Cathy Wright curator at the museum, she states: Kate Mason Rowland, of Baltimore, Maryland, bequeathed one lock of Booth's hair. Her nephew Stevens T. Mason of Detroit, Michigan presented the bequest. Although the official date of donation has yet to be determined, she died in 1916, so the bequest must have been made that year or sometime soon thereafter.

Author and historian, Kate was the first VP of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, the parent organization of the MOC and a charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

William Key Howard of Caroline County gave his to the MOC in 1927 and was informed then that Rowland had donated her lock of Booth hair in 1916. This information is from The Free Lance – Star, Town and Country Magazine, Saturday, May 28th 1977.