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RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 07-11-2020 07:37 AM
Michael, in all honesty, I do not know if she was into quilting. It could be. But she is not the person I have read about with regards to quilting.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Susan Higginbotham - 07-11-2020 09:18 AM
Asia Booth?
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 07-11-2020 09:53 AM
Susan, please see my reply to Michael. I would say the same for Asia. I just do not know.
Hint #1: The person I am looking for is male.
RE: Assassination Trivia - Steve - 07-11-2020 05:15 PM
It's Michael O'Laughlen. Michael's grandmother, Maria Williams, was a seamstress and her daughter (Michael's mother, Mary Ann) helped Maria make a quilt for her husband, Rev. Samuel Williams when Michael was young. Rev. Williams died in 1847 before it completed. One square of the quilt was supposedly done by a 6 year-old Michael.
I think the Baltimore Museum of Art currently has the quilt.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 07-11-2020 05:22 PM
Good job, Steve. Indeed it's Michael O'Laughlen. I learned this from Dave Taylor's website:
https://lincolnconspirators.com/2012/05/06/michael-olaughlen-quilter/
RE: Assassination Trivia - Susan Higginbotham - 07-29-2020 06:40 PM
I recently read "The Belle of Bedford Avenue" by Virginia A. McConnell. It's a nonfiction account of a murder case involving a fast set of young people in 1902 Brooklyn. Florence Burns, from a well-to-do family, was accused of murdering her lover in a Manhattan hotel on a block that would later be torn down to make way for the World Trade Center.
Anyway, to get to my point, the preliminary hearings were open to the public. One attendee, sitting at the table reserved for members of the press, had also been present at the conspiracy trial of 1865. Who was this person?
RE: Assassination Trivia - Rob Wick - 07-29-2020 07:05 PM
I'll take a wild guess and say George Alfred Townsend.
Best
Rob
RE: Assassination Trivia - Susan Higginbotham - 07-29-2020 08:21 PM
No, not him!
RE: Assassination Trivia - AussieMick - 07-29-2020 09:16 PM
General Burnett?
RE: Assassination Trivia - Susan Higginbotham - 07-29-2020 09:45 PM
No, not him.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 07-30-2020 03:47 AM
Benn Pitman?
RE: Assassination Trivia - Gene C - 07-30-2020 07:10 AM
Great trivia question Susan. I have no idea.
I googled Florence Burns.
Her troubles didn't stop with the murder charge.
This is from a blog, Unknown Gender History, so I have no idea how much is really true.
It's about female serial killers and the notorious Mis Andry
https://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2011/09/one-of-boldest-badger-games-ever.html
RE: Assassination Trivia - Susan Higginbotham - 07-30-2020 11:13 AM
Not Pitman. Hint: Despite the attendee's presence at the press table, the attendee is not famous to us as a journalist.
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 07-30-2020 12:54 PM
Henry Lawrence Burnett?
RE: Assassination Trivia - Susan Higginbotham - 07-30-2020 03:38 PM
No, not him.
Hint 2: The attendee was at the conspiracy trial as a spectator.