Identifier: presidentssoldie02hard (find matches)
Title: Presidents, soldiers, statesmen... with a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hardesty, Hiram H., 1834-1898, pub. 2n
Subjects: United States
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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1857, six months were passed on the island of Madeira, then eighteenmonths in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France andEngland. The. fe.w remaining years of her life were passed in her nativeland, patiently ting for the summons of release. She died ou Decem-ber 2, 1863, at iver, Massachusetts, and three days later her remainswere laid beside luose of her children in the cemetery at Concord. MARY TODD LINCOLX. Mary, daughter of Hon. Robert S. Todd, of Lexington. Kentucky,was born in that state in 1821. A very charming child she grew intoyoung ladyhood to be celebrated for her beauty, wit and lively disposition.Learning she never aspired to, ami many of the characteristics of earlierladies in the ^ liite House she would have unquestionably pronounceddull and undesirable, yet she is said to have had from girlhood an am-bition to reign there, and to have repeatedly prophesied she would live tobe a presidents wife. It is also chronicled that among the many aspirants ///? (J(
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420 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. but the wife eul<l not even learn where he was, nor could he, though inNashville, communicate with her. As the summer passed her position became more and more painful, and her distress was augmented by thefrequent rumors of her husbands assassination, now that he had beenkilled in Kentucky, now that he was shot in Nashville, again that he wasa prisouer in the hands of victorious and merciless Confederates. InSeptember, accompanied by her sous, her daughter, her son-in-law. ColonelStover, and their children, she succeeded in joining her husband. Agentleman who was in Nashville at the time, thus described her journeyand arrival: Quite a sensation has been produced in Nashville by thearrival of Governor Johnsons family after incurring and escaping numer-ous perils while making then exodus from East Tennessee. The malemembers of the family were in danger of being hung more than once.They left Bristol, in the extreme northeastern part of the

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