Who is this lady?

[Anita]

(07-03-2021 02:01 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  I am truly amazed and surprised. I believe I own over 80 books on Lincoln's assassination, and I don't ever recall seeing this information in a single one except I now recall it's in Manhunt. When the article says, "Alone with his fallen chief, Stanton cut a generous lock of the president’s hair and sealed it in a plain white envelope"...I wonder how this is known. Despite what the Smithsonian Magazine says I remain surprised. However, I do know the article's author, James Swanson, is an expert, but I do not remember that he included this information in Bloody Crimes. It's only in Manhunt and nowhere else as far as I know. Mr. Swanson says he examined it in a private collection. I guess I will have to trust his judgment, but I am still somewhat shocked to think Edwin Stanton cut a "generous lock of hair" for Mary Jane Welles.

I too am surprised.
"Washington, D.C., author and Lincoln scholar James L. Swanson has one that was cut by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton shortly after Lincoln died in the Petersen House, across the street from Ford’s Theatre, where he was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14.1865."
From Washington Post article.https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/gettysburg-gets-a-lock-of-lincolns-hair/2011/07/01/AGwwmMuH_story.html