Mary Todd Lincoln's Rare Mourning Memorabilia This Week at LiveAuctionTalk.com

Online, November 15, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Mary Todd Lincoln dressed in full mourning clothes from the time of her husband's assassination in 1865 until her own death 17 years later. She wore a heavy black crepe dress and a black bonnet with a black veil.

Mary never got over Pres. Abraham Lincoln's assassination. It was a knife in the heart that only sunk deeper.

At her 1882 funeral in Springfield the minister had this to say, "When Abraham Lincoln died, she died...So it seems today, that we are only looking at death placing its seal upon the lingering victim of a past calamity." Mary was 64.

Mary couldn't make herself attend Lincoln's funeral. She lay in bed in the Whitehouse for over a month replaying details of the shooting over and over again in her head.

On July 15, 1882, the anniversary of her son Tad's death Mary suffered a stroke and died shortly afterward.

On June 11, Cowan's in Cincinnati, Ohio, featured a selection of Mary Todd Lincoln items in its American History Including the Civil War auction. Mary's mourning parasol, veil and fan; accompanied by a 1976 affidavit signed by Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith sold for $19,388.

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