Lincoln's birthday

[Eva Elisabeth]

Thank you, Dr. Steers, for clarifying and adding some interesting details!
And the same thanks to you, Scott, for a great, informative post! I totally agree on your last passage! Actually one of the "big" Mary biographers (I think Jean Baker, unfortunately cannot check) listed Mary's age discrepancies and blamed her for cheating. You post now makes me think this wasn't necessarily the way it was - I wonder if the said biographer knew of the census taking procedure. I cannot remember if there was any oral or written statement by Mary herself wherein she made herself younger - does anyone happen to know? If it had always been an "agent of such family" this would have been quite the compliment...