Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

[Eva Elisabeth]

I second Laurie 100%!

I just read another poster wondering whether AL would have gotten cold feet at the altar with Ann Rutledge. We will never know of course, but I am more than a little convinced that much of what attracted AL to Rutledge was the fact that she was basically UNAVAILABLE. She was engaged to another man, and her ability to marry AL depended on whether or not she could be released from her engagement to John McNamar.

Interesting thought! BTW, I agree on the following you once posted:

"Ironically I think it's also something that her husband might have found attractive about her. I simply cannot ever see AL content with some docile, uneducated little housewife."

I think so, too. I think he needed a counterpart that matched his personality.

As for A. L. having gotten cold feet at the altar, in a newspaper interview on Sept. 2, 1885, Frances Wallace wrote: "No, it was as I tell you. There never was but one wedding arranged between Mary and Mr. Lincoln, and that was the time they were married."