Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

[Juan Marrero]

It's like a Stephen King novel with Ann being dug up and her arm bone and bits of hair carted off and reburied for personal gain.
Has there ever been discussion to put her all back together at Oakland? Are the any descendants living today?

By 1860 many family members (brothers and the mother of Ann Rutledge) had moved to Iowa and are buried in Bethel Cemetery, Van Buren County, near the village of Birmingham. One brother, Robert Rutledge was named Provost Marshal, 1st District Iowa, in 1863.

Back in the 60's in King's Beach, Lake Tahoe, my mother worked as seamstress and ironed clothes in a laundry owned by a very nice man named Rutledge. (Claim to fame: she ironed Frank Sinatra's clothes for when he appeared at the CalNeva Lodge. Mr. Rutledge told me, upon learning of my early interest in Lincoln, that Ann Rutledge was a collateral ancestor of his. Mr. Rutledge was a Mormon and a very straitlaced man for what it's worth.