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Mary Eugenia Surratt

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mary Eugenia Surratt , 1820-65, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, hanged on July 7, 1865. A widow (her maiden name was Jenkins) who had moved from Surrattsville (now Clinton), Md., to Washington, D.C., she kept the boardinghouse where John Wilkes Booth hatched his unsuccessful plot to abduct the President and his successful assassination plan. After Lincoln's assassination eight alleged accomplices in Booth's crime were tried (May 10-June 29, 1865) before a special military tribunal. Hanged with Mary Surratt and unquestionably guilty were Lewis Thornton Powell (or... Read more
Samuel Alexander Mudd
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... John Wilkes Booth . Mudd was accused of aiding Booth's escape and was tried along with Booth's accomplices (see Surratt, Mary Eugenia ). He maintained that he did not recognized the disguised Booth, who was an acquaintance, and did not know of ... Read more
John Wilkes Booth
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... completely unsupported by evidence—that Booth escaped has persisted. For the fate of others involved, see Surratt, Mary Eugenia . Bibliography: See memoir by his sister, Asia Booth Clarke (1930, repr. 1971, 1996); biographies by R. G. Gutman ... Read more

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