Was John Surratt engaged to Miss Roose?

[Lincoln Wonk]

Imagine the wedding announcement for Miss Branson and Mr. Powell, Betty.

Surratt's jobs after his trial are fascinating, Jim. I can't imagine having a teacher who was a friend of John Wilkes Booth. He must have been very adaptable to move from carrying secret war plans in his shoe to being a teacher at a girl's school to being a freight auditor to moving to the C-Suite as a company treasurer.

Obits are amazing. I found a woman who died in the mid-West but she lived on Tenth Street in 1965. Her obit said she was inside Petersen House as a teenager on assassination night and she felt sorry for Booth.