Surratt, Mary Elizabeth Eugenia Jenkins

Life Span

05/01/1823 to 07/07/1865

Life Summary

Full name

Mary Elizabeth Surratt

Place of Birth

Prince George's County, MD

Burial Place

Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Birth Date Certainty

Disputed

Death Date Certainty

Exact

Gender

Female

Race

White

Sectional choice

South

Origins

Slave State

No. of Spouses

No. of Children

Family

Archibald Jenkins (father), Elizabeth Anne Jenkins (mother), John Harrison Surratt (husband, 1840), John Surratt (son)

Occupation

Businessman

Relation to Slavery

Slaveholder

Church or Religious Denomination

Catholic (Roman or Irish)

Political Parties

Democratic

Date	Event
04/17/1865	Mary Surratt and Lewis Powell are arrested in a late night War Department raid on Surratt's boarding house
04/29/1865	In Washington, John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are transferred to the Old Penitentiary for trial
05/01/1865	In Washington, President Johnson orders a military trial for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters
05/06/1865	In Washington, the officers of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are named
05/09/1865	In Washington, membership of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters is adjusted
05/10/1865	In Washington, the accused Lincoln Assassination plotters all plead not guilty before their military court
05/12/1865	Famed Maryland lawyer and statesman Reverdy Johnson meets with accused conspirator Mary Surratt in her cell
05/12/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial begins
05/13/1865 - 06/13/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial continues
06/14/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial concludes
06/15/1865 - 06/28/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, final arguments are being made in the Lincoln conspiracy trial
06/29/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the Commission in the Lincoln conspiracy trial begin their deliberations
07/05/1865	In Washington, President Andrew Johnson approves the sentences passed down to the Lincoln conspirators
07/06/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the Lincoln conspirators are told their fate in their cells
07/07/1865	Four condemned Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, are executed in Washington, D.C.

Date	Title
05/08/1865	Charges and specifications against the Lincoln Conspirators on trial in Washington, D.C., May 8, 1865
07/05/1865	Official Verdict of the Military Commission trying the Lincoln Conspirators, as endorsed by President Johnson, July 5, 1865

Chicago Style Entry	Link
Goodrich, Thomas. The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.	view record
Larson, Kate Clifford. The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln. New York: Basic Books, 2008.	view record

Surratt, Mary Elizabeth Eugenia Jenkins

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