Who is this person?

[Anita]

Hi Katie, welcome to the forum. Hello Roger. Sorry for not replying sooner. I had to run out early this morning. Both of you have come up with credible guesses. But Mrs. Tilton is the ghost I had in mind.

I had been reading up on the various tenants who occupied the Lincoln home when I came across this article. The Tilton family had to put up with a host of headaches as renters of the Lincoln home. See excerpt below. The full article can be found at
http://www.illinoishauntings.com/lincoln_home.html

"But was the ghost really Mary? For those who believe the house is actually haunted (The National Park Service maintains that it is not!), they believe the ghost here is not actually one of the Lincoln family, but rather a later occupant of the house, Mrs. Lucian A. Tilton. Mrs. Tilton and her husband, the president of the Great Western Railway, had rented the home from the Lincoln family when they left for Washington in 1861. However, after the president's assassination, his body was placed on display in the house when he was returned to Springfield. Mrs. Tilton had been constantly plagued by visitors during the four years that she lived in the house, prior to 1865. They estimated that at least 65,000 people had visited the home and asked to take a tour of it, ringing the bell and knocking on the door day and night.

Needless to say, Mrs. Tilton was worried about what might happen to the house during the Lincoln funeral but she was a kind-hearted person and had already resolved herself to the fact that she was going to allow people to take grass from the yard, flowers from her garden or leaves from the trees. She had no idea what was coming --- by the end of the funeral services, her lawn and gardens had been stripped, paint had been scraped from her house and bricks had been carried away from her retaining wall as souvenirs.

The Tiltons moved out of the Lincoln home in 1869 but some believe that Mrs. Tilton has never left it. There are those that believe the ghost who lingers here, and who has been seen on many occasions cleaning and straightening the house, is the beleaguered Mrs. Tilton, still worried over the disruptions that continually marked her brief tenancy in this famous home."