Surratt, Mary Elizabeth Eugenia Jenkins

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Mary Elizabeth Surratt
    Birth Date Certainty
    Disputed
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Female
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    3
    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
    Mary Surratt and Lewis Powell are arrested in a late night War Department raid on Surratt's boarding house
    In Washington, John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are transferred to the Old Penitentiary for trial
    In Washington, President Johnson orders a military trial for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters
    In Washington, the officers of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are named
    In Washington, membership of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters is adjusted
    In Washington, the accused Lincoln Assassination plotters all plead not guilty before their military court
    Famed Maryland lawyer and statesman Reverdy Johnson meets with accused conspirator Mary Surratt in her cell
    In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial begins
    - In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial continues
    In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial concludes
    - In Washington's Old Penitentiary, final arguments are being made in the Lincoln conspiracy trial
    In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the Commission in the Lincoln conspiracy trial begin their deliberations
    In Washington, President Andrew Johnson approves the sentences passed down to the Lincoln conspirators
    In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the Lincoln conspirators are told their fate in their cells
    Four condemned Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, are executed in Washington, D.C.
    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
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