Assassination Trivia

[RJNorton]

Sorry, folks, all are good guesses but none correct.

Hint #2: She took part in college theater productions, and after college, she studied acting with a drama coach in London.

[Dave Taylor]

She's not the lady who played Dr. Mudd's wife in Prisoner of Shark Island, is she? I thought that was the old "Titanic" lady...

[RJNorton]

Nope.

Hint #3: She once listened to a certain person's voice and remarked, "I had expected rant, but these were quiet tones. The diction was exquisite, the delivery formal and grand but stirring and unstilted. . . . The voice itself, heard, with great poetry and feeling, yet with no straining to affect, and I suddenly understood the ecstatic, nostalgic praises of the men and women, my own grandparents, for example..."

[BettyO]

The lady (historian) at Tudor Hall who died last year? Sorry, but I can't remember her name....

[RJNorton]

Nope, this lady died in 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

[Rsmyth]

Silas Cobb's daughter?

[J. Beckert]

Eleanor Ruggles? The hint about the voice pointed me to her.

[L Verge]

It has to be Eleanor Ruggles. The quote about the voice told me Edwin Booth, but I could not make the connection with Ruggles (despite the fact that there was just a posting about her and Kimmel). You have to win this one, Joseph.

[LincolnMan]

Related to Mortimer Ruggles?

[RJNorton]

Yes, Joe you are correct. That is Eleanor Ruggles, author of Prince of Players: Edwin Booth.

There is an obituary for her here.

I think we have posted a link to hear a recording of Edwin Booth's voice before. Here's one.

[Rsmyth]

That was a tough one, good job Joe!

[Dave Taylor]

I'm sure Rich will get this in two seconds, but...

Whose grave is this?

[Rsmyth]

Well, only because I have been there and taken that exact same picture in the little cemetery do I think I know who his is without going to my files -Joseph SIMM Smith ?

[Dave Taylor]

You are indeed correct, sir.

Dr. Smith is one of the few graves actually on Fort Jefferson. After Dr. Smith died of Yellow Fever in 1867, Dr. Mudd took over as garrison doctor until a new one came from the mainland.

According to his FindaGrave page, Dr. Smith's three year old son died of Yellow Fever on the very same day as he did, and his name is also on this marker.

[RJNorton]

This portrait of Ulysses S. Grant is the work of a person whose name comes up in the Lincoln assassination saga. What is his or her name?