Louis Weichmann

[Susan Higginbotham]

(02-12-2015 10:04 PM)Pamela Wrote:  I came across a marriage announcement for Lou and Annie in the Hoosier State Chronicles online, of course. Terre Haute daily gazette, Volume 1, Number 131, 31 October 1870:

Weichmann, whose connection with the assassination of Mr. Lincoln and the Surratt trial will be remembered, was recently married, at Philadelphia to Miss Annie Johnson, a young lady who has been quite prominent in the temperance cause, and has served as S.W. Vice Templar of Pennsylvannia. After the execution of Mrs. Surratt, Weichmann was appointed to a position in the Custom House at Philadelphia, but having been removed shortly afterward, he was re-appointed on the ascension of President Grant, and still retains his post.

I had a look on another site. The story seems to have been picked up by papers across the country.

I wonder what drove the couple to separate. Perhaps Annie's activism in the temperance cause took up too much of her time for Weichmann's taste.