Ann Rutledge
American
Lineage
- Father James Rutledge
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1813/01/07 | Ann Mayes Rutledge is born near Henderson, Kentucky, the third of 10 children born to Mary Ann Miller Rutledge and James Rutledge. | Born | Henderson | Kentucky | |||
| 1835/08/25 | Ann Rutledge, an early sweetheart of Abraham Lincoln, dies at the age of 22 of typhoid in the town of New Salem. | Died | Lincoln's New Salem Village, IL | Illinois | |||
| 1835/09/00 | Abe Lincoln often sits by the grave of Ann Rutledge, an early sweetheart, reads from a little pocket Testament. "My heart is buried in the grave with that dear girl." - AL | In Memoriam | Old Concord Cemetery, Petersburg | Petersburg, IL | |||
| 1866/11/16 | William H Herndon, Lincoln's former law partner, lectures in Springfield, Illinois, on: A Lincoln-Miss Ann Rutledge, New Salem - Pioneering, and the Poem called Immortality - or 'Oh! Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud.' | Subject | |||||
| 1890/00/00 | Petersburg furniture dealer and entrepreneur, Sam Montgomery, exhumes Rutledge's body and then buries her in the Oakland Cemetery in Petersburg, Illinois. Montgomery happened to own some of Oakland Cemetery. | In Memoriam | Petersburg, IL | Illinois | |||
| 1922/00/00 | In the 1920s, William E Barton, interviews 93 year old Sarah Rutledge Saunders about her sister Ann. "Abraham Lincoln and Ann truly loved each other." WB | Family |
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