Mary's friends

[Donna McCreary]

(04-07-2015 04:48 PM)Anita Wrote:  

(04-07-2015 02:54 PM)Donna McCreary Wrote:  

(04-02-2015 12:27 PM)Anita Wrote:  

(03-30-2015 09:02 PM)Donna McCreary Wrote:  Speaking of which -- does anyone remember the name of the lady who wrote about Mary at school? Later in life, she moved to Louisville, Kentucky. I can not find her name anywhere!

Donna, the name you're looking for is Miss Bodley, afterwards Mrs. Owsley of Louisville, Kentucky. "Mary, Wife of Lincoln" by Katherine Helm, pg. 31

Thank you. It seems we have the name of two of Mary's classmates at Ward's. I am digging into the Todd family files. "Bodley" is a surname that appears in the Parker family files. It may be that Miss Bodley was actually a cousin. I am not sure yet.

Looking forward to your book and seeing how you pull it all together. There are many of Mary's letters to friends but not that many letters from them to her. Did she keep correspondence sent to her?

Anita, there are letters written by her family and friends in achieves. Since everything is filed under the name of the person who wrote the letter, finding the letter is often difficult.
As far as to whether or not Miss Bodley was related, I can not tell. I have files on the family, but nothing listing children who would have been Mary's contemporaries.