Who is this lady?

[Steve Whitlock]

(06-29-2021 04:37 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  In Lincoln's Final Hours author Kathy Canavan covered some of Fred Petersen's actions. Kathy writes, "The fifteen-year-old went into the relic business. He ran to the writing desk in the front parlor and grabbed some plain white paper. He cut it into squares and signed and dated each one. Then he dipped them in the blood from the front hall, probably Major Rathbone's. The people knotted outside clamored to buy Fred's grim souvenirs. He made $1.12 in fewer than ten minutes."

Roger,

The two pieces of sheet used by Colleen Fitzpatrick and the FBI in their dna studies were both from the Tuckerman collection, so the provenance would be William "Willie" T. Clark, Abraham Lincoln, Charles K. Tuckerman, Mary A. Benjamin and whoever owned it after that, likely a historical society, before it was tested.