Lincoln's homeowner's insurance on the Springfield home

[Eva Elisabeth]

Roger, I'm just reading "The trials of Mrs. Lincoln" by Samuel Schreiner. He writes:
"Like her husband before her, Mary Lincoln, though surrounded by lawyers and demonstrably concerned about her financial situation, died intestate...She had evidently scrapped the will that Judge Bradwell had drawn for her before Robert brought her to trial, and she had to have known that she was leaving everything to Robert by not making another will."
So this is wrong?

As for the homeowner's policy, isn't that obligatory? Here it is. But maybe it wasn't in those days.