Lincoln and Ann Rutledge

[observer]

Lincoln reply is certainly within 19th century thought of what was expected of a Frontier woman role in family life...had they married Lincoln would probably have studied LAw and prehaps risen to a Justice of the Peace....of his community.
The very fact that those who remembered Lincoln and Rutledge shows she was his first love... Mary Todd would have married Stephen Douglas who would have probably been elected President of the United states