Who is this lady?

[Steve Whitlock]

(06-25-2021 07:31 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  I assume that somebody has considered that it could be Henry Rathbone's blood? That would require the blood to have been perhaps transferred to Lincoln's clothing in the theater box and to remain wet when his body was moved to the bed.

I did an mtdna study for Henry Reed Rathbone's maternal line. The results are at GeneticLincoln.com under Relics. That was a different haplogroup, and was used by the FBI to validate a relic from Mary Todd Lincoln's chair as being from Rathbone. It was not haplogroup N, but was D4i2.

Perhaps I should seek mtdna for Charles K. Tuckerman, who initially seems to have acquired the sheet relics. Did he see a way to enhance the value by putting some of his own blood on the sheets. Nobody could prove it if he did at that time.