Assassination Trivia

[Steve]

Yes, you are correct Gene, it is Kate M. Scott! This photograph of her was taken in 1862 according to the Jefferson County (PA) Historical Society.

Kate was a civil war nurse, newspaper editor, historian, and later social reformer from Pennsylvania. Starting sometime in the 1970's, Ray Neff began promoting the idea that she and John Wilkes Booth had a daughter together despite the fact that Kate was a fervent Unionist who helped raise troops through her newspaper and that she never had any children, ever. The India will of John Byron Wilkes that Neff "found" lists Kate's nonexistent daughter as one of his heirs. Neff also claimed the photo of Helen Western found on Booth's body was Kate.

https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/view/60177

Somehow, I figured Gene might be the one to answer this question correctly.

Here's Kate's find a grave page:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8135...e-m.-scott

Note that after her biography, a Neff fan has posted a full-length transcription of a fake affidavit describing her affair with Booth found in the so-called "Potter Papers".