“It was a Marylander that assassinated President Lincoln.”
A lot of people think he was a Virginian. But, a terrapin he was.
Wasn’t the Booth family from Baltimore?
I stayed at the Booth's ancestral home "Tudor Hall" in Bel Air, Maryland many years ago. I'd originally read an article in Civil War Times Illustrated about the home. An elderly couple had purchased the property, and had turned it into a bed and breakfast. Prior to my mother's death in 1990, I took her on a trip to Virginia. We attended a reenactment of the surrender at Appomattox, and stayed at the home overnight. I slept in the room that had supposedly been JWB's room when he lived there. He had etched his initials with a diamond in the window at the front of the house. The couple that owned the home started a group called the "Preservation Association for Tudor Hall".
Howard and Dorothy Fox, the owners started having symposiums, and gatherings at the home. They invited published authors and experts to speak once a year. I went to a few of them, and stayed at the home while in attendance. I can't remember who passed first, but they both passed within a very short time. They had no children, and hadn't left Wills, and the house was eventually put up for auction. The group was eventually disbanded. I still have a print that the group sold when it was first formed. It features a drawing of the home, with imprints of Junius Brutus Booth, Edwin Booth, J.W.B., their mother Mary Ann Holmes Booth, etc. It's titled "The Maryland Booths" with "Preservation Association for Tudor Hall" below. It hangs in my living room.
Here's a picture of Dorothy and Howard Fox from 1985.
I have Foxes and Holmes in my family tree, but I haven't figured out if I'm related to Mary Ann Holmes. She was born in England, as were my Holmes family members, as was my Fox line.