Surratt Courier

[Susan Higginbotham]

(10-01-2015 03:10 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Kudos to Kathy Canavan on her Surratt Courier article entitled "The Petersens of Tenth Street Years After the Assassination." Kathy included lots of interesting information. I was fascinated by what William Petersen's grandson had to say in a 1921 interview. In describing his grandfather's house on 10th Street he said, "It was not a boarding house at all...I know that my grandfather did not conduct a rooming house." Go figure.

Haven't got mine yet--looking forward to it! I finished Kathy's book a couple of days ago and really enjoyed it.

David Rankin Barbee in his interview with Dr. Reginald Tonry (Anna Surratt's son) reported that Dr. Tonry made a similar remark: "When Mrs. Surratt moved to Washington and took the town house on H Street, she did not open a boardinghouse and she never ran an establishment of that sort." ("His Mother's Memories").