[rlmorel]

I went to Surrattville High School my freshman and sophomore years in high school. (boy, did I ever hate that place-they began bussing the years I was there.)

The Surratt Boarding House was a dilapidated place I stood by to catch my bus, and kids would drink in there and light fires inside the place at night.

I went by that place a few years back, and it was a national park site now.

[Verginius Rufus]

The conspirators, including Mary Surratt, were hanged on July 7, 1865. Mary Surratt's son John Surratt, Jr., escaped to Canada and then to Europe. He served in the army of the Papal States for a while (he was a Catholic--both of his parents were Catholic converts) but was eventually brought back to the US and tried--but acquitted. He claimed only to know of a plot to kidnap Lincoln, not to kill him. He lived until 1916.

If Lincoln had been a Catholic maybe he would have gone to church rather than to see a comedy in the theater...it was Good Friday.

[x]

She had the inn/tavern in Maryland. Also a boarding house in DC that may have played a bigger role in the assassination story.