Mary's funeral expenses

[Gencor]

(05-23-2016 03:51 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(05-22-2016 08:57 PM)Gencor Wrote:  If it did still exist, at the time of her death, who would have had the dress?

Jason Emerson writes, "Her (Mary's) body was laid out in the parlor of the Edwards home, the same room in which she was married, in a white silk dress. Ironically, despite her sixty-eight trunks full mostly of clothing, Elizabeth Edwards had to send to Chicago for a suitable one."

Maybe the dress specified in 1874 was in one of these 68 trunks?

Good thought, Roger! That also leads to another question. Mrs. Lincoln was in a mental hospital for a long time. I am sure that she had no need for those dresses or the trunks but would they have been kept through all of those years or would they have been given away or just discarded? I's obvious that either the trunks of dresses were gone or that they were so old and worn that they had to send to Chicago for a burial dress.