The Grave Of Mary Surratt
by Cora Wandel
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The Grave Of Mary Surratt
Artist
Cora Wandel
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Photograph
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This is the grave of Mary Surratt, who was convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865. She was hanged on July 7th later that year, and became the first woman executed by the United States federal government. It was Booth who shot and killed Lincoln, but he had eight co-conspirators, and four of them were hanged, including Mrs. Surratt. (Booth, who fled Ford's Theater after shooting Lincoln, was found twelve days later and shot to death.) Surratt, who owned the boarding house Booth was staying in as he planned the assassination, was a widow and her tombstone states simply that it is the grave of "Mrs. Surratt" without reference to her first name or years of life. The grave is odd in that it is both unkept and yet garners strange attention with twigs and stones and even bird droppings. It can be found in a poorer, largely neglected section of an otherwise well-manicured Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, DC.
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November 20th, 2017
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