Re: Mary Todd Lincoln Genealogy
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Re: Mary Todd Lincoln Genealogy
8/21/99
This is how bad information gets started and passed from generation to generation.The newspaper reporter made a huge mistake.In order for this young woman to have been Abraham Lincoln's neice, L. B. Todd would have to have been Mary's brother.He was not.L. B. Todd was the son of James Clark Todd who was the half-brother to Robert Smith Todd - who was Mary Ann Todd Lincoln's father.L. B. Todd and Mary Lincoln were first cousins.