Mary's funeral expenses

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(05-24-2016 08:35 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Kathy, I don't remember ever reading what happened to the trunks. Maybe someone will know
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The Last Lincolns by Charles Lachman:

p 281 "Mary Todd Lincoln's things were transported by rail to the town of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where a large room on the third floor of the Harlan family home was cleared out to make space for sixty-five trunks."

"Piles of clothes had been set up on long trestle tables with index cards indicating where they were going to be shipped. Some items were destined for Lincoln relatives...others were to be sent to institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution and the Chicago Historical Society."

Even after "Mary Lincoln had been dead two years...the task was so time-consuming there were still several trunks her daughter-in-law had yet to open."