Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

[Eva Elisabeth]

If there were wedding intentions in 1841 and whoever got cold feet I don't understand the fuss about it respectively to see some negative indication "into this". As for the situation, family and other life circumstances and background of both of them in those days I find it mist understandable. For Abraham it meant quite the financial obligation in times when it wasn't to expect from wives to add income to the living, plus Mary came from a quite fastidious end of society, and I understand the worries not being able to provide his bride a likewise future. And v.v. Mary might have fretted as for losing all.

The fact that despite a possible "reasonable" or whatever reasoned separation they "couldn't let from each other" and finally married despite all these IMO speaks much more (positive).

As for the license, here a marriage isn't legally a marriage without. What about the US - would the ceremony by Rev. Dresser have been "sufficient"?