Who is this lady?

[RJNorton]

Hint #2: She remarried after her first husband died. She is buried next to her first husband.

[RJNorton]

Hint #3: Another strange one that goes with Hint #1. After she touched his back Abraham Lincoln touched her foot or ankle.

[Eva Elisabeth]

I've racked my brain all day long over this. Somehow it seems to ring a bell - but not loud enough. Well, although I'm sure this can't be right: Rebecca Pomroy?

[RJNorton]

Another good try, Eva. But it's not her.

Hint #4: The incident described in the hints has no exact date (at least as far as I know), but it probably happened sometime between 1820-1825.

[Houmes]

(01-29-2014 06:57 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  Another good try, Eva. But it's not her.

Hint #4: The incident described in the hints has no exact date (at least as far as I know), but it probably happened sometime between 1820-1825.

Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln's daughter Matilda. She looks like her mother.

[RJNorton]

Splendid, Blaine. You are correct! I have read a variety of versions of this incident cited in the hints about the back and ankle, and here is just one.

One day Abraham's stepsister, Matilda Johnston, playfully tried to knee young Abe in the back just as he was swinging an ax to cut down a tree. The joke backfired because it caused Abraham to fall backwards, and the ax cut a deep gash in Matilda's ankle. Young Abe quickly cut his shirt into strips and tied them tight around Matilda's bleeding ankle. She was scared and crying. Abe did not question her; rather he realized it had been a childish prank. He picked up the young girl and carried her on his shoulder all the way from the woods to the Lincolns' cabin. Matilda wanted to tell her mother that she was cut by Abe's ax, but not exactly how it happened, as she was embarrassed. Abe advised her to tell the "whole truth" about how she got injured.

Growing up, Abraham and Matilda were very close. In 1865 Matilda wrote Herndon that the two "grew up together loving one another as brother and sister."

[RJNorton]

Who is this lady?

[L Verge]

Clara Barton?

[RJNorton]

Very good, Laurie. This isn't the photo of her that I am generally used to seeing in books, so I thought it might be a challenge. You win best wishes for a wonderful Presidents' Day.

[L Verge]

I had to think twice also. Anyone visiting the Washington, D.C. area should make an effort to tour her unusual home in Glen Echo, just outside the city in Montgomery County, Maryland. Our conference tour into D.C. on March 14 will include her downtown office where she assisted soldiers and families after the Civil War. A great lady, who got the support she needed for the American Red Cross after announcing to Senator Conger that she had tended to his badly wounded brother, Everton Conger (as in Garretts' Farm Patrol), during the war.

[Gene C]

This lady was 60 years old when her book about Abraham Lincoln was first published. Previously, she had been a public school teacher. Who is she?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Ruth Painter Randall?

[Gene C]

Good guess, but it's not her.

Hint #1. Her last book was published when she was 96

[RJNorton]

Dorothy Kunhardt?

[Gene C]

Not her either.

Hint #2
Her work on Abraham Lincoln was first printed in 1932.
Her books have been translated in 14 different languages