Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

[Ed Steers]

I would love to weigh in on this, but it looks like I am way behind in the discussion. The article Joe Di Cola mentions is John Y. Simon, "Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge," Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, vol. 11, 1990, pp. 13-33. If you do a timeline plotting when Ann and Lincoln were physically together in New Salem you may be surprised. To the best of my knowlege no one has bothered to track the two between Lincoln's arrival in July 1831 and Ann's death in August 1835.

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By the way, I forgot to mention that I believe Ann Rutledge is still buried in Old Concord, not Petersburg. I wrote a chapter on my take in "Lincoln Legends" (Chapter 4, page 51). I think the evidence supports Ann in Old Concord. Montgomery did not move her. He took an arm bone (Ulna) and a bucket of dirt to Petersburg. Several artifacts from the grave (Hair bow, button, piece of dress, hank of hair) were removed and preserved. They still exist.