Who is this lady?

[J. Beckert]

Anna Ella Carroll of Baltimore. At least that's what Laurie told me.

[RJNorton]

Kudos, Joe. That is her. I got the idea to ask this from Laurie's trivia question in another thread. To be honest, I never even noticed the empty chair in Carpenter's painting until Laurie asked that question.

Although Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park is officially sold out through Labor Day I arranged for a free ticket for you. This ticket allows one week of free camping adjacent to the Lincoln-Todd Monument. You will awake to that stunning monument each morning. Enjoy!

[J. Beckert]

Really? She gave me the right answer? That's weird...

Packing for Wisconsin!! Thanks, Roger!

[L Verge]

Really? She gave me the right answer? That's weird...

Packing for Wisconsin!! Thanks, Roger!

Every now and then, I like to be nice to Yankees, Joe!

It must have been an omen, because as I came to work this morning, I passed Colony South Hotel where the Surratt Society holds its conferences. Six buses, blazingly (or brazenly - take your pick) painted with YANKEE TRAILS on each side were pulling out headed for D.C.

With at least 300 Yankees bivouaced in town, I decided to be nice. It also reminded me that, as you walk out the front door of the hotel, you look across the highway to a site once owned by Bennett Gwynn, who testified on behalf of Mary Surratt at the 1865 trial. Early in the war, Mr. Gwynn and his family were visited by over 200 Yankee cavalry men in search of materiels en route to Virginia. This time, those Yankees might be on a bus.

[J. Beckert]

Hang in there, Laurie. They'll be gone soon. Deo Vindice, sister...

[Eva Elisabeth]

Who is this lady?
   

[Gene C]

I've seen this before. Isabel Sumner?
I think the ring and letters Booth sent to her are on temporary exhibit at the Lincoln Museum in Springfield

[RJNorton]

I second Gene.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Kudos, Gene and Roger - that is correct. Isabel reminds me of "Schöne Isabella aus Kastilien" by the Comedian Harmonists, an all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 as one of the most successful musical groups in Europe before World War II.

In 1927, unemployed actor Harry Frommermann founded the group, inspired by The Revelers, a jazz-influenced popular vocal group from the United States, to create a German group of the same format. After some initial failures, the Harmonists soon found success, becoming popular throughout Europe, visiting the United States, and appearing in 21 films. In the early 1930s, they ran into trouble with the Nazi regime: three of the group members were either Jewish or of Jewish descent, and one had married a Jewish woman. The Nazis progressively made the group's professional life more difficult, initially banning pieces by Jewish composers, and finally prohibiting them from performing in public. The group's last concert in Germany was in Hannover on March 25, 1934 after which they sailed to America on SS Europa and gave several concerts. Fearing internment if they stayed abroad. They eventually returned home, but three members finally fled Germany again. Although all members survived the war, they never re-formed after the war.

Here's the song (in a 1997 docu movie - skip a bit forward):
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNMJ_bQ2EIs
The chorus is about:
"Beautiful Isabella from Castile
Gather all your utensils
and come back to me to Spain.
You know, only in the land of the toreros
You lose your little heart and more
So come back to me to Spain."

Their music is still popular:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=svZSl0c3l8c

[RJNorton]

Who is this lady?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Laura Keene?

[RJNorton]

That's a really good try, Eva, but it's not Laura Keene.

[Eva Elisabeth]

A Musketeer...

[RJNorton]

Hint #1: This lady died in her room at the Kirkwood House in 1868.

[Eva Elisabeth]

Helen Western?