
-On Good Friday, the Lincolns attend Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater when Booth's fatal bullet strikes Abraham in the back of the head
-Carried across the street into a rooming house, Mary pleas by his side not to leave her. Abraham Lincoln dies the next morning.
-His body lie in state in the East Room while Mary concealed herself, inconsoluble. His coffin was paraded through a bereaved Washington and he was placed on a train home to Springfield, stopping along the way for grieving crowds to meet him. He was laid to rest alongside sons Eddie and Willie
-Mary did not accompany her husband's train. She remained in her room for a month and left the White House for the last time. She remained secluded in a Chicago hotel, consumed with grief.
-Abraham Lincoln's death starts to take on mythic qualities
-Tad Lincoln dies at age 18 of TB, and Mary completely loses her grip with reality
-Mary hurries to Chicago to see Robert, whom she was convinced of dying. He has her committed and she attempts suicide. Having lost her husband, three children, and abandoned by another, she returns to Springfield to live with her sister in the house where she married Abraham. Mary Todd Lincoln died on July 15, 1882 to be reunited with her husband and sons.
-Abraham Lincoln becomes a secular saint