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The death of Mary Todd Lincoln...
The death of Mary Todd Lincoln...
Item # 725249
July 17, 1882
BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, July 17, 1882
* Mary Todd Lincoln death (1st report)
Page 4 has report under: "Recent Deaths" which begins with: "Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late President Lincoln, died in Springfield, Ill., at 8:15 last night..."
Complete with 8 pages, a little irregular along the spine, nice condition.
background: Mary Todd Lincoln passed away on the evening of July 16, 1882, at the age of 63, in the Springfield, Illinois home of her sister, Elizabeth Edwards—the very same residence where she had wed Abraham Lincoln four decades prior. Her final years were defined by a steep decline in physical health, including failing eyesight from cataracts and the taxing effects of diabetes, as well as the deep emotional scars left by the loss of her husband and three of her four children. Though her death was officially attributed to a stroke (apoplexy), she had become increasingly frail and reclusive following her brief, involuntary commitment to a sanitarium in 1875. In her final moments, she fell into a coma and died peacefully, eventually being laid to rest alongside the President in the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery. Modern retrospection often views her not merely as a "troubled" figure, but as a woman navigating profound, cumulative trauma and chronic illness without the benefit of modern medical understanding.
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