Lincoln's embalmment

[Houmes]

(01-06-2015 11:39 AM)loetar44 Wrote:  

(01-05-2015 08:16 PM)Houmes Wrote:  Not that I would ever stoop to confuse matters worse, but there was another lady claiming years later to have also cradled Lincoln's head in Ford's Theatre.
Read about this at: https://archive.org/stream/curiosrelicsclotlinc_11

This article states that Antonia Ford Willard “was at the Ford Theatre the night Lincoln was shot, and was in a BOX adjoining the one occupied by Mr. Lincoln”….. Hmmmm, how is that possible, since we know that all other boxes were unoccupied out of respect of the President…..

How to explain the descendant's claim that Ms. Willard occupied the theatre box next to the presidential party? 1) Ignorance of history. 2) Family tradition, filtered through time and innocently recalled. 3) Delusions of grandeur. 4) $$$$. Otherwise, it's just a soiled opera cloak.