+- Lincoln Discussion Symposium (https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium)
+-- Forum: Lincoln Discussion Symposium (https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/forum-1.html)
+--- Forum: Trivia Questions - all things Lincoln (https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussionSymposium/forum-8.html)
+--- Thread: Assassination Trivia (/thread-350.html)
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 04-02-2016
This person is a part of the Lincoln assassination saga. His or her death certificate listed "senile decay" as the cause of death. Who is the person?
RE: Assassination Trivia - BettyO - 04-02-2016
Thomas T. Eckert or Christian Rath?
Both died with Alzheimers......
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 04-02-2016
Logical guesses, Betty, but it's not either of them.
Hint #1: The person was female.
RE: Assassination Trivia - BettyO - 04-02-2016
Nora Fitzpatrick?
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 04-02-2016
Nope, not her, Betty. Good try.
Hint #2: This person only enters the assassination saga after the event itself. I found this information in a Surratt Courier article. (not a recent Surratt Courier)
RE: Assassination Trivia - Gene C - 04-02-2016
Sarah Francis Mudd?
RE: Assassination Trivia - Miss_Bellatrix - 04-02-2016
This is a total wild guess but is it Anna Surratt, Mary Surratt's daughter?
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 04-02-2016
Good guesses, Gene and Miss Bellatrix, but neither of those ladies is correct.
RE: Assassination Trivia - L Verge - 04-02-2016
Any of these Virginia contacts? Sarah Jane Peyton, Julia Stuart, or Lucinda Holloway?
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 04-03-2016
These are more good guesses, Laurie, but none is correct. However, you are in the right state.
RE: Assassination Trivia - BettyO - 04-03-2016
Mrs Quesenberry?
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 04-03-2016
Excellent, Betty! Yes, when Mrs. Quesenberry died in 1896, this was listed on the death certificate as the cause of death. This information was in a wonderful article on this interesting woman in the September 2008 Surratt Courier. The article was written by Rick Smith and Bill Richter. Bill and Rick's source was her death certificate in the Quesenberry File in the James O. Hall Research Center at the Surratt House Museum.
Betty, you win best wishes for a wonderful spring in Virginia!
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 04-04-2016
One author has written about the following scenario:
1. John Wilkes Booth was not killed at Garrett's. He got away after assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
2. Booth went into hiding.
3. Later Booth had an affair with a married lady.
4. The lady's husband died.
5. Booth impersonated the dead husband and became President of the United States.
Which U.S. President was really John Wilkes Booth (in disguise) according to this author's book?
RE: Assassination Trivia - STS Lincolnite - 04-04-2016
I've never heard this wild tale! I will venture a guess of Benjamin Harrison as the "alias" of JWB. My first thought would have been Grover Cleveland, but I know he was married only once (to the much younger Miss Folsom!)
RE: Assassination Trivia - RJNorton - 04-04-2016
You are very close, Scott, but it's neither of these two U.S. Presidents.