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• FSID: L7F5-H6N
• Passport Application: 1918, Vermont, USA
• Passport Application: 1925, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

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Mary Lincoln "Peggy" Beckwith
Birth: Aug. 22, 1898
Mount Pleasant
Henry County
Iowa, USA
Death: Jul. 11, 1975
Rutland
Rutland County
Vermont, USA

Was a prominent descendant of Abraham Lincoln. She was one of the last two descendants (great-grandchildren) of Abraham Lincoln with her brother, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith.

"Peggy" Lincoln at age 14.Mary Beckwith, or "Peggy" as she was occasionally called, was born to Jessie Harlan Lincoln and Warren Beckwith on August 22, 1898, in Mt Pleasant, Iowa. Raised in Hildene with her brother, Peggy later grew up in Washington, D.C., and was said to have become ‘a squat, fair-haired, blue-eyed, chain smoker who golfed and dabbled in oil painting and sculpture. She got the nickname "Peggy" when her grandfather, Robert Todd Lincoln, described Mary Lincoln as her hair ‘flying in the sun' when he wrote to his Aunt Emile Todd Helm and gave Mary the name. She never married and died on July 10, 1975 at around 2:15 a.m. Mary Lincoln Beckwith died at Rutland Hospital in Rutland, Vermont. She requested when she died that her ashes be spread over her estate, this request was granted and there was no funeral or memorial service held. At her death, her brother, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, became the last living Lincoln descendant.

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Parents:
Warren Wallace Beckwith (1874 - 1955)
Jessie Harlan Lincoln Randolph (1875 - 1948)

Siblings:
Mary Lincoln Beckwith (1898 - 1975)
Infant Beckwith (1901 - 1901)*
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1904 - 1985)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Cremated, Ashes scattered.

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: L7F5-HCW
• Passport Application: 1912, New York, USA
• Indvandring: maj 1914, Québec, Québec, Canada; Canadian Passengers
• _MILT: 8 apr. 1919, La Jolla, Orange, California, United States
• Obituary: 25 sep. 1955, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

Warren blev gift med Jessie Harlan Lincoln den 10 nov. 1897 i Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, og blev skilt den 12 feb. 1907 i Iowa, USA. Jessie (datter af Robert Todd Lincoln og Mary Eunice Harlan) blev født den 6 nov. 1875 i Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; døde den 4 jan. 1948 i Rutland, Rutland, Vermont, USA; blev begravet den 6 jan. 1948 i Dellwood Cemetery, Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, United States. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: LCPC-MHL
• Passport Application: 1925, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
• Obituary: 6 jan. 1948, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
• Obituary: 6 jan. 1948, Trenton, New Jersey

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• Military: Captain under Ulysses S. Grant
• Military: Union Army during last year of Civil War
• FSID: L4ST-FSH
• Beskæftigelse: Lawyer
• Other: 1867, admitted to bar in Chicago
• Passport Application: 1872, USA

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Find A Grave Memorial# 628;
Aug. 1, 1843-Springfield,Sangamon County,Illinois, USA
Death: Jul. 26, 1926-Manchester,Bennington County,Vermont, USA

US Cabinet Member and Diplomat. He is best remembered as the first child of 16th US President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln and was the only one of the President's children to survive past the age of 18. After graduating from Phillips Exter Academy at Exter, New Hampshire in 1860, he attended Harvard University at Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1861 until 1865. In February 1865 he was commissioned as an assistant adjutant with the rank of captain and served in the last weeks of the American Civil War as part of General Ulysses S. Grant's immediate staff, a position which sharply minimized the likelihood that he would be involved in actual combat. He was present at Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia on April 9, 1865 and two months later he resigned his commission. Following his father's assassination on April 14, 1865 he moved to Chicago, Illinois with his mother and youngest brother Tad where he completed his law studies at the Old University of Chicago law school (later absorbed by the Northwestern University School of Law) and was admitted to the bar in February 1867. In 1877 he turned down President Rutherford B. Hayes' offer to appoint him Assistant Secretary of State, but later accepted an appointment as President James Garfield's Secretary of War, serving from 1881 to 1885 under Presidents Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. In 1887 he assisted Oscar Dudley in establishing the Illinois Industrial Training School for Boys in Norwood Park, Illinois. In 1889 he was appointed the US minister to England (the Court of St. James) by President Benjamin Harrison, serving until 1893 during which time his young son, Abraham II "Jack", died from blood poisoning. After finishing his term, he returned to his law practice. In 1897 he became president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and in 1911 he became its chairman of the board until 1922. He died in his sleep at his home from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 82. (bio by: William Bjornstad)

Family links:
Parents:
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (1818 - 1882)

Siblings:
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843 - 1926)*
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843 - 1926)
Edward Baker Lincoln (1846 - 1850)*
William Wallace Lincoln (1850 - 1862)*
Thomas Lincoln (1853 - 1871)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription:
"Buried at Arlington National Cemetery"

Burial:

Plot: Across from Abraham Lincoln's monument
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Record added: Jul 04, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial# 10323

Robert blev gift med Mary Eunice Harlan den 24 sep. 1868 i Home of Senator Harland, 304 H St, Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Mary blev født den 25 sep. 1846 i Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, USA; døde den 31 mar. 1937 i Washington, District of Columbia, USA; blev begravet i 1937 i Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, United States. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: 9DZR-5J1

Notater:

Mary Eunice Harlan Lincoln
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Birth: Sep. 25, 1846
Iowa City
Johnson County
Iowa, USA
Death: Mar. 31, 1937
Washington
District of Columbia
District Of Columbia, USA

Daughter of Senator James Harlen of Iowa. Married Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln. She met Robert in Washington while his father was still President. They were married in 1866

Family links:
Parents:
James Harlan (1820 - 1899)
Ann Eliza Peck Harlan (1824 - 1884)

Spouse:
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843 - 1926)

Children:
Mary Todd Lincoln Isham (1869 - 1938)*
Abraham Lincoln (1873 - 1890)*
Jessie Harlan Lincoln Randolph (1875 - 1948)*

Siblings:
Mary Eunice Harlan Lincoln (1846 - 1937)
Silas James Harlan (1850 - 1850)*
William Aaron Harlan (1852 - 1876)*
Julia Josephine Harlan (1856 - 1862)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington
Arlington County
Virginia, USA
Plot: Section 31
GPS (lat/lon): 38.88377, -77.06535

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Record added: Feb 15, 2003
Find A Grave Memorial# 7186237

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: LZJW-C31

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16th United States President. As newly elected Abraham Lincoln made his way by train to Washington to assume the Presidency, the Union was fast disintegrating with secession by South Carolina followed by seven other Southern States. A Confederate government was already operating in the South. After taking the oath of office with outgoing President Buchanan beside him, he assumed the responsibility for preserving the Union by reversing secession. The South demanded the Union withdraw from the forts in the South. Lincoln was firm, he denied the right of states to secede and declared that the Federal Government would hold, occupy and possess its forts and properties. Fort Sumter was attacked, the five year Civil war had begun. During the first year and a half of conflict, neither the North nor the South had the advantage. The third year of war was the turning point as the North scored a victory at Gettysburg while conquering Vicksburg. The South became weaker and weaker. When President Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term, the end of the war was in sight and within a month the surrender of the South took place at Appomattox. Abraham Lincoln was born to American pioneers: his father Thomas Lincoln had come from Virginia to live in Kentucky where he met a girl named Nancy Hanks. After their marriage, the young couple set up house keeping in a log cabin at Nolin Creek, in Hardin County where the future President was born. At the age of nine his mother died. His father quickly brought home a new wife, Sara, who was instrumental in her stepson's learning to read and continued pursuit of self education. He developed a great and lasting affection for his step mother. The Lincoln family would move four times before settling in another log cabin in Coles County, Illinois. Abe always in conflict with his father over his passion for learning and with the many Lincoln children crowded in the family cabin, moved to nearby New Salem taking a job in a frontier dry goods store. The village schoolmaster tutored him in mathematics and grammar. His political career began with election to the state Legislature which met in nearby Springfield twice a year. John Stuart, a lawyer impressed by Lincoln, invited him to read law in his Springfield office, eventually the two became partners. The opening of the Legislature was marked by a Grand Ball resulting in his meeting Mary Todd, Stuart's cousin which culminated in marriage some three years later. Abe was able to purchase a house in Springfield which remained the Lincoln's family home until the death of Mary. He was active in politics and received a nomination for Congress and was elected. After one term, he returned to Springfield and resumed his law practice. He became a member of the new Republican party and was nominated for Senator from Illinois running against a Democratic opponent Stephen A. Douglas which set up the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates. Lincoln was not elected but became well known and above all the undisputed leader of the Republican party in Illinois. A few years later, he would again face the victorious Douglas for the Presidency and emerge victorious. Lincoln was instrumental in many achievements besides preserving the Union by a bloody war during his tenure in office. He was instrumental in building the transcontinental telegraph system and authorized the construction of the transcontinental railroad to be built by private persons while giving them huge parcels of land along the right of way. He promoted a bill in Congress which set aside areas in new states where free colleges could be built (Land Grant Colleges). He pushed a bill through Congress called the Homestead Act. Any family that settled on a farm could own the land after five years of improvement. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring wherever Union troops moved into the seceding states, the slaves would automatically become free forever. Then came the tragedy - While sitting in his box at Ford's theater, he was shot by a an actor resulting in death the next day. His demise triggered a funeral extravaganza, one the country had never seen before. After a service and procession down Pennsylvania Avenue, Lincoln's embalmed body, along with that of his son Willie (disinterred from a Washington Cemetery) was placed aboard a Funeral Train for the trip home to Springfield which reversed Lincoln's original inaugural train route taken when he assumed the Presidency. Sixteen days later with arrival in Springfield, the odyssey had come to a merciful end. At Oakridge Cemetery, the remains of Willie and the President were placed in a temporary vault. Son Eddie was disinterred later from a nearby grave and also placed in the temporary chamber. Epilogue: Tragedy befell the Lincoln family at every turn: Eddie died at four-1850; Willie at eleven-1862 and Thomas at eighteen-1871 and Mary, insane, followed in 1882. But Robert lived until 1926 and was alive and present in 1922 to witness the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. The things that remain of President Lincoln, are countless memorials, namesake places, photos on money and artifacts. However the family tree is dead, killed by tragedies, untimely deaths, insanity, lawsuits, fake heirs and even a genetic disease. The last heir, his great-grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died on Christmas Eve in 1985. Any direct descendant could have inherited Beckwith's fortune, it's worth estimated at $3 million. It has since gone to charity.

Peterson's Boarding House, 516 10th St., NW, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Oak Ridge Cemetery, 1441 Monument Ave, Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA

Abraham blev gift med Mary Ann Todd den 4 nov. 1842 i Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA. Mary (datter af Robert Smith Todd, I og Elizabeth Ann Parker) blev født den 13 dec. 1818 i Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA; døde den 16 jul. 1882 i Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA; blev begravet i jul. 1882 i Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: LCHV-P5R
• Beskæftigelse: ml. 4 mar. 1861 og 14 apr. 1865; Wife and First Lady, 16th President of the United States
• Obituary: 18 jul. 1882, Utah, USA

Notater:

Find A Grave Memorial# 1341

Birth: Dec. 13, 1818-Lexington,Fayette County,Kentucky, USA
Death: Jul. 16, 1882-Springfield,Sangamon County,Illinois, USA

Presidential First Lady. She was the wife of 16th US President Abraham Lincoln and was the First Lady from March 1861 until April 1865. Born the fourth of seven children into an affluent family, her father was a banker and the family owned slaves. At the age of six her mother died and her father remarried and had nine additional children. She attended Madame Mantelle's finishing school at an early age where she learned to speak French fluently and studied dance, drama, music, and social graces. By age 20, she was regarded as witty and gregarious, with a grasp of politics. In October 1839 she moved to Springfield, Illinois and lived with her oldest sister, Elizabeth Porter Edwards, who was married to Ninian W. Edwards, the son of a former Illinois governor, and he served as her guardian. She was popular among the gentry of Springfield, and though she was courted by the rising young lawyer and Democratic Party politician Stephen A. Douglas and others, she chose to marry Abraham Lincoln, a rising circuit lawyer, in November 1842. Her husband became famous for his position on slavery, which generated national support for him. During her White House years, she faced many personal difficulties generated by political divisions within the nation. Several of her half-brothers served in the Confederate Army and were killed in action, and one brother served the Confederacy as a surgeon. Her second son Eddie, had died of tuberculosis in 1850 and her third son William (Willie), died of typhoid fever in the White House in 1862. She had difficulty negotiating White House social responsibilities and rivalries, spoils-seeking solicitors, and baiting newspapers in a climate of high national intrigue in Civil War Washington. She refurbished the White House, which included extensive redecorating of all the public and private rooms as well as the purchase of new china, which led to extensive over expenditures. The president was very angry over the cost, even though Congress eventually passed two additional appropriations to cover these expenses. She suffered from severe headaches, described as migraines, throughout her adult life, as well as protracted depression. Her headaches became more frequent after she suffered a head injury in a carriage accident during her White House years. A history of mood swings, fierce temper, public outbursts throughout Lincoln's presidency, as well as excessive spending, has led some historians and psychologists to speculate that she possibly suffered from bipolar disorder. She often visited hospitals around Washington to give flowers and fruit to wounded soldiers and took the time to write letters for them to send to their loved ones. On occasion, she accompanied Lincoln on military visits to the field. On Friday, April 14, 1865, she sat with her husband watching the comic play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre. The Civil War had just ended five days earlier with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, Virginia. During the performance, John Wilkes Booth sneaked into the booth where they were seated and shot her husband in the back of the head. She accompanied her mortally wounded husband across the street to the Petersen House, where he was taken to a back bedroom and laid crosswise on the bed there, where Lincoln's Cabinet was summoned. He died early the following morning and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton ordered her to leave the room as she was so overcome with grief. After his national funeral that took place at different locations across the country and internment in Springfield, Illinois, she returned to Illinois and lived in Chicago with her sons Robert and Thomas (Tad). In July 1870 the US Congress granted her an annual life pension in the amount of $3,000 for which she lobbied hard to obtain. At the time it was unprecedented for widows of presidents to receive a government pension, and she had alienated many congressmen, making it difficult for her to gain approval. The death of her son Thomas (Tad) in July 1871, brought on an overpowering grief and depression and her surviving son, Robert Lincoln, a rising young Chicago lawyer, was alarmed at his mother's increasingly erratic behavior. After nearly jumped out of a window to escape a non-existent fire, Robert determined that she should be institutionalized and in May 1875 he committed her to Bellevue Place, a private asylum in Batavia, Illinois. Three months after being committed, she devised her escape. She smuggled letters to her lawyer, James B. Bradwell, and his wife Myra Bradwell, who was not only her friend but a feminist lawyer and fellow spiritualist. She also wrote to the editor of the Chicago Times concerning her plight and soon, the public embarrassments that Robert had hoped to avoid were looming, and his character and motives were in question, as he controlled his mother's finances. She had a trial to determine if she was capable of being released. The director of Bellevue had assured the jury she would benefit from treatment at his facility. However, in the face of potentially damaging publicity, he declared her well enough to go to Springfield, Illinois to live with her sister Elizabeth as she desired and In 1876 she was declared competent to manage her own affairs. Following the court proceedings, she was so enraged that she attempted suicide. She went to the hotel pharmacist and ordered enough laudanum to kill herself, but he realized her intent and gave her a placebo instead. The committal proceedings had resulted in her being profoundly estranged from her son Robert, and they did not reconcile until shortly before her death. She spent the next four years traveling throughout Europe and took up residence in Pau, France. Her final years were marked by declining health. She suffered from severe cataracts that reduced her eyesight that may have contributed to her increasing susceptibility to falls. In 1879 she suffered spinal cord injuries in a fall from a stepladder. She returned to the US and during the early 1880s she was confined to the Springfield, Illinois residence of her sister Elizabeth. On July 16, 1882, she collapsed at her sister's home and lapsed into a coma and died there at the age of 63. She has been portrayed by several actresses in film, including Julie Harris in "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln," a 1976 television adaptation of the stage play, Mary Tyler Moore in the 1988 television mini-series "Lincoln" (1988), Sally Field in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012), Penelope Ann Miller in "Saving Lincoln" (2012), and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" (2012). Several biographies have been written about her as well, including Barbara Hambly's The Emancipator's Wife (2005) and Janis Cooke Newman's historical novel "Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln" (2007). (bio by: William Bjornstad)

Family links:
Parents:
Robert Smith Todd (1791 - 1849)
Ann Elizabeth Parker Todd (1794 - 1825)

Spouse:
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Children:
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843 - 1926)*
Robert Todd Lincoln (1843 - 1926)*
Edward Baker Lincoln (1846 - 1850)*
William Wallace Lincoln (1850 - 1862)*
Thomas Lincoln (1853 - 1871)*

Siblings:
Elizabeth Porter Todd Edwards (1813 - 1888)*
Robert Smith Todd (1814 - 1814)*
Levi Oldham Todd (1816 - 1864)*
Frances Jane Todd Wallace (1817 - 1899)*
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (1818 - 1882)
Ann Maria Todd Smith (1820 - 1891)*
Robert Parker Todd (1821 - 1822)*
Margaret Todd Dillon (1822 - 1874)*
George Rogers Clark Todd (1825 - 1900)*
Robert Humphrey Todd (1827 - 1827)**
Samuel Brown Todd (1830 - 1862)**
David Humphreys Todd (1832 - 1871)**
Martha Todd White (1833 - 1868)**
Emilie Todd Helm (1836 - 1930)**
Alexander Humphreys Todd (1839 - 1862)**
Elodie Breck Todd Dawson (1840 - 1877)**
Catherine Bodley Todd Herr (1841 - 1875)**

*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling

Burial:
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Springfield
Sangamon County
Illinois, USA
GPS (lat/lon): 39.80601, -89.64772