Top 10 Strange Fates Of People Connected To Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

Regarded by many as the best president in American history, Abraham Lincoln’s story contains as much darkness as light. Lincoln’s life was a study in tragedy; his namesake grandfather was killed in a raid by Native Americans, and his mother died of milk sickness when he was just nine years old. He had a difficult relationship with his father. His first love interest, Ann Rutledge, died of suspected typhoid fever at 22. His son Edward died at age three, likely of tuberculosis. Another son, William, died of typhoid fever at 11.

All of these events, along with the burden of the presidency, doubtlessly contributed to Lincoln’s crippling “melancholy,” which would likely be recognized today as clinical depression. The great man stared down the barrel of gloom and death his entire life. When that life was cut short, many of those he touched seemed to have inherited his curse, a legacy of madness and death.

Top 10 Strange Fates Of People Connected To Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

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