Mary Todd Lincoln, died of typhoid fever in the White House at age 11. Both the president and Mary were so distraught of their son's death, Mary turned to holding seances in the Red Room at the ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived ... 1865, his widow Mary Todd Lincoln explicitly banned shutterbugs to preserve the privacy of the solemn moment.

Clip #7: Mary Todd Lincoln as a Mother (2:36). Clip #8: Varina Davis as a Mother (3:29). How many children did she and her husband have? How many of her children died before and during her time as ...