Mary Lincoln funeral

[Eva Elisabeth]

(06-22-2014 12:02 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Robert certainly did not rush to his mother's side once he learned of her collapse.

According to Carl Sandburg and W. E. Evans, Robert and Mary reconciled in May 1881 when Robert visited her in Springfield for that purpose. He brought Mamie, whom Mary adored, as a "white dove", but there exists no primary evidence.

Just to add from Jason Emerson's "The Madness of M.L.": Mary wore a white silk dress for which Elizabeth Edwards sent for to Chicago. The crowd that attended the funeral was so large that not everyone was able to enter the church. Rev. Reed said: "While she, no doubt, had her faults like other women, and made mistakes, yet she had excellent virtues which shone a luster all her own."
Here's a sketch of her funeral: