Kissing, eh? I don't think he had ANY problems with that and the Branson girls!!

(08-24-2012, 12:33 PM)BettyO Wrote: Kissing, eh? I don't think he had ANY problems with that and the Branson girls!!

Both of them, huh? Was he pulling a double shift?

I know! Answers coming soon to an Alias Paine second edition near you!

(08-24-2012, 12:53 PM)Natty Wrote:

(08-24-2012, 12:33 PM)BettyO Wrote: Kissing, eh? I don't think he had ANY problems with that and the Branson girls!!

Both of them, huh? Was he pulling a double shift?

I know! Answers coming soon to an Alias Paine second edition near you!

You got it!! HA!

(08-24-2012, 01:04 PM)BettyO Wrote:

(08-24-2012, 12:53 PM)Natty Wrote:

(08-24-2012, 12:33 PM)BettyO Wrote: Kissing, eh? I don't think he had ANY problems with that and the Branson girls!!

Both of them, huh? Was he pulling a double shift?

I know! Answers coming soon to an Alias Paine second edition near you!

You got it!! HA!

Well, then, while I am waiting - I have a question for you, Betty!
What happened to Lewis' front teeth? When the skull was found, were the front teeth still in place? Or gone, taken as some form of trophy? I would have loved to have seen that cute "imperfection" one of his teeth was supposed to have. Ha!

(08-24-2012, 01:27 PM)Natty Wrote:

(08-24-2012, 01:04 PM)BettyO Wrote:

(08-24-2012, 12:53 PM)Natty Wrote:

(08-24-2012, 12:33 PM)BettyO Wrote: Kissing, eh? I don't think he had ANY problems with that and the Branson girls!!

Both of them, huh? Was he pulling a double shift?

I know! Answers coming soon to an Alias Paine second edition near you!

You got it!! HA!

Well, then, while I am waiting - I have a question for you, Betty!
What happened to Lewis' front teeth? When the skull was found, were the front teeth still in place? Or gone, taken as some form of trophy? I would have loved to have seen that cute "imperfection" one of his teeth was supposed to have. Ha!

Those teeth were missing when he was "found." We don't know what happened to them! Could be that in moving him around from cemetery to cemetery they got knocked out -- OR they could have been taken as some sort of gruesome trophy.... I don't know.

(08-24-2012, 12:33 PM)BettyO Wrote: Kissing, eh? I don't think he had ANY problems with that and the Branson girls!!

On the subject of the Branson girls, I read that Civil War Nurses had to be over 30 and plain, preferably with grey hair and spectacles! Surely, our Lew wasn't that desperate!

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(08-24-2012, 12:33 PM)BettyO Wrote: Kissing, eh? I don't think he had ANY problems with that and the Branson girls!!

Didn't Lewis give his diary and a photo to a girl called Betty? I wonder what happened to those. Probably got destroyed when she found out he was a conspirator. I guess that info could have been involved her more than she was comfy with.

(08-24-2012, 02:34 PM)MaddieM Wrote:

(08-24-2012, 12:33 PM)BettyO Wrote: Kissing, eh? I don't think he had ANY problems with that and the Branson girls!!

On the subject of the Branson girls, I read that Civil War Nurses had to be over 30 and plain, preferably with grey hair and spectacles! Surely, our Lew wasn't that desperate!

Apparently not all of them, Maddie. They were both described as 'handsome" - so....no I would not think Lew was desperate! A young man with a strong crush perhaps, but not desperate by any measure....

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(08-24-2012, 02:34 PM)MaddieM Wrote:

(08-24-2012, 12:33 PM)BettyO Wrote: Kissing, eh? I don't think he had ANY problems with that and the Branson girls!!

On the subject of the Branson girls, I read that Civil War Nurses had to be over 30 and plain, preferably with grey hair and spectacles! Surely, our Lew wasn't that desperate!

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(08-24-2012, 12:33 PM)BettyO Wrote: Kissing, eh? I don't think he had ANY problems with that and the Branson girls!!

Didn't Lewis give his diary and a photo to a girl called Betty? I wonder what happened to those. Probably got destroyed when she found out he was a conspirator. I guess that info could have been involved her more than she was comfy with.

Lew did have a VA girlfriend named "Betty" - no relation! HA! As far as we know these items still existed according to James O. Hall, as late as the 1890s -- I'm checking! She married and had kids....

Betty: how is that we have pictures of Lew's skull?

(08-25-2012, 07:36 AM)LincolnMan Wrote: Betty: how is that we have pictures of Lew's skull?

I would love to see more close-ups of his teeth! Are there any more photos available from the right perspective?

(08-25-2012, 07:45 AM)Natty Wrote:

(08-25-2012, 07:36 AM)LincolnMan Wrote: Betty: how is that we have pictures of Lew's skull?

I would love to see more close-ups of his teeth! Are there any more photos available from the right perspective?

Me too. I think I'm becoming obsessed!

It's like being a detective.

(08-25-2012, 07:36 AM)LincolnMan Wrote: Betty: how is that we have pictures of Lew's skull?

Hey, Bill!

Back in 1992, things were not as strict as they are now....

We were allowed to see Lew's skull, handle it to our hearts' content, photograph it - and even clown around with it.... no white gloves involved - at all! Just our bare hands.

I got to "see" him two separate times before he was shipped home to "mama"! HA!

One thing I was amazed at was how small the skull actually was! It seemed his head was smaller than mine - and he was a big boy! I asked the anthropologist why it seemed small and he stated that it was because the muscle, tissue, fat, nerves, and other things makes the head appear larger. If that's the case, than mine must be miniscule!

(08-25-2012, 08:19 AM)BettyO Wrote:

(08-25-2012, 07:36 AM)LincolnMan Wrote: Betty: how is that we have pictures of Lew's skull?

Hey, Bill!

Back in 1992, things were not as strict as they are now....

We were allowed to see Lew's skull, handle it to our hearts' content, photograph it - and even clown around with it.... no white gloves involved - at all! Just our bare hands.

I got to "see" him two separate times before he was shipped home to "mama"! HA!

One thing I was amazed at was how small the skull actually was! It seemed his head was smaller than mine - and he was a big boy! I asked the anthropologist why it seemed small and he stated that it was because the muscle, tissue, fat, nerves, and other things makes the head appear larger. If that's the case, than mine must be miniscule!

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Aw, look at you two! I hope he paid for dinner!

Thank you Betty! It must have been an incredible experience, to come face to face with Lewis like that.

(08-25-2012, 08:23 AM)MaddieM Wrote:

(08-25-2012, 08:19 AM)BettyO Wrote:

(08-25-2012, 07:36 AM)LincolnMan Wrote: Betty: how is that we have pictures of Lew's skull?

Hey, Bill!

Back in 1992, things were not as strict as they are now....

We were allowed to see Lew's skull, handle it to our hearts' content, photograph it - and even clown around with it.... no white gloves involved - at all! Just our bare hands.

I got to "see" him two separate times before he was shipped home to "mama"! HA!

One thing I was amazed at was how small the skull actually was! It seemed his head was smaller than mine - and he was a big boy! I asked the anthropologist why it seemed small and he stated that it was because the muscle, tissue, fat, nerves, and other things makes the head appear larger. If that's the case, than mine must be miniscule!

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Aw, look at you two! I hope he paid for dinner!

Yuk! HA!! If he ate, he'd be more than a bit "leaky!"

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(08-25-2012, 08:26 AM)Natty Wrote: Thank you Betty! It must have been an incredible experience, to come face to face with Lewis like that.

Oh, it was an experience all right! I'd never SEEN a real human skull before - much less handled one. The skeletons we had in science class in school had been made of plastic. This was the real thing. Lew's skull had a mottled appearance and the anthropologist told me this was called "coffin rot." I later questioned Dr. Houmes on this and he stated that "coffin rot" is where the wood of the casket touches the bones, turning them to a different color as the wood leaches, I guess fluids, into the remains.

Yes, it was an incredible experience - especially for an author to "meet" her biographical subject 127 years after he died!

Betty: you're too much! You just crack me up. Anyway, like you said-that had to be such a special moment. So Lew'e entire remains were sent to Florida for final burial? Did you see the parts of him? And one other question: were you a tomboy? It's not every female that would lay around with a human skull!