Grave of James Rutledge, father of Ann

[Eva Elisabeth]

For me the evidence of a significant relationship between the two is pretty convincing.

Where the myth enthusiasts completely lose me is their insistence that Lincoln never loved again and spent the rest of his life mourning and pining for Ann Rutledge...

That's what I believe respectively don't believe, too. Most people have a first "big" love they don't marry, and thoroughly suffer when this first relationship ends for whatever reason, but nevertheless love their later spouse more and dearly.