Olivia Jenkins

[RJNorton]

(07-27-2015 05:17 PM)Lincoln Wonk Wrote:  Susan has a wonderful piece on Olivia Jenkins, Mary Surratt's niece, in this month's Surratt Courier. Thanks, Susan.

I second Kathy. It's a great article. For me personally one sentence was the most interesting. In past threads I have argued that Booth called at the Surratt boardinghouse on his way to Ford's on April 14th. But Susan notes, "Olivia did give one bit of interesting testimony at John Surratt's trial: she claimed that a caller at the house on the evening of April 14, suspected to have been Booth, was actually a 'gentleman named Scott, of the navy' who left two papers for Olivia."