Who is this lady?

[RJNorton]

Steve, FYI:

Willie Clark, the Petersen House boarder who was renting the room in which Lincoln died, wrote his sister a few days after the assassination. He wrote, "The same matrass is on my bed, and the same coverlit covers me nightly that covered him while dying." However, I do not see that he mentioned the sheet itself.

In Robert Bain's book it is mentioned that the Petersens decided to "give Mr. Clark some new bedding." However, there is nothing specific about exactly what happened with the sheet that was on Clark's bed. Bain is just going by family lore as he is a descendant of the Petersens. I do not place much trust in his book.

I do not think I can help with provenance...wish I could!