Booth escape route north

[Troy Cowan]

Jenny, I reread your thread in which you wrote about "that nutty will written by Booth imposter John Byron Wilkes". I agree that John Byron Wilkes did not kill Lincoln. I do not know who Izola Mills D'Arcy is. She may have been an imposter also.

The Izola that I refer to was born into the Mills family and never was adopted by or married to a D'Arcy. Although she did have a connection to the D'Arcy's. Izola was raised by the D'Arcy family and Izola's daughter at times used D'Arcy as a stage name.

Eighteen-year-old Izola Mills married Charles Stills Bellows on July 30, 1855. Charles was a seaman and could be gone for over a year at a time. twenty-one-year-old Izola met and fell in love with twenty-year-old John Wilkes Booth. I a fit of passion they were married on January 9, 1859 and had a daughter on October 23, 1859. John Stevenson said he attended their marriage and he is the one that sold his farm in Shenandoah Valley to Booth. It was at that farm that Izola cared for Booth until his leg healed.

Izola was legally married to Bellows, but was married to Booth by passion.