Louis Weichmann

[Pamela]

Hi, I'm new to this forum and I should introduce myself. I've visited many times and think it's a great place. Thanks to Roger for helping me get started and giving me the Weichmann avatar for the time being! I became interested in Lincoln after seeing the movie Lincoln and then reading Team of Rivals-twice. Since then I've read many books and recently got The Evidence. I'm an artist and live in White Hall MD. My husband and I and some friends took the Booth Escape Route Tour this summer and loved it. I've eaten at Wok n Roll twice, been to the Soldier's Cottage, the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Tudor Hall in Bel Air and the Confederate White House. I'm fascinated by the personalities involved with Lincoln and the assassination. Lincoln himself, Mary Todd Lincoln, his secretaries and sons, Mrs. Keckley, Seward and his family, the conspirators and Louis Weichmann.

I read that he was married but not where the information came from so I joined Ancestry.com temporarily and did some research which I'd like to share. Annie J. Weichmann was a force to be reckoned with! She held many officer positions with the Good Templars, a Christian temperance society, over a period of 56 years, and travelled extensively on their behalf. The locations she travelled to include Minnesota, Sarasota, Chicago, New York, Pittsburg, Boston, London, England and Belfast, Ireland. She attended the convention of the Order of the Good Templars of North America in London "in pursuit of health and pleasure in connection with my duties as a duly appointed delegate...." in July 1873, less than three years after her marriage to Louis on October 25, 1870 at the Grace Church Episcopal Chapel in Philadelphia. Her passport application has her date of birth as Nov. 1 1834. She was 38. (Louis was born September 29, 1842) She was 8 years older than him. Her physical description (no photo) was height 5'3", hair brown, eyes blue, face round, chin round, nose ordinary, complexion fair, and forehead broad and medium height. I couldn't find her on a passenger list on a ship, but those records can be spotty. There's a lot more.