Dr. Mudd's slave who cooked breakfast for JWB and David Herold

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I rec'd the first Mudd Society newsletter of the new tour season and was pleased to learn that the story of Lettie Hall was featured. More importantly, however, her grave in Rose Hill Cemetery in Butler, Pennsylvania, has been identified by a local historian.

Like many public cemeteries of the day (1936), Rose Hill was segregated at the time of her burial. Lettie was interred in an unmarked grave on the reverse slope of the cemetery. After her grave was located in 2015, it was marked with two, reflective, driveway markers and a small ceremony was held in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln assassination.

In 2016, the Dr. Mudd Society was made aware of the location and condition of Lettie's grave and voted to fund the creation of a marker for the grave. The bronze marker gives her name, dates of birth and death, and a brief sentence as to her ties to the Lincoln assassination and Booth. It will be placed at the grave as soon as ground conditions allow it.