Mary Todd was born in 1818, to Eliza Parker and Robert Todd. Mary's mother died around 1825 when Mary was just seven. Her father remarried. Mary remembers her childhood as desolate. She had private schooling. She was 5' 2", She had blue eyes, long lashes, light brown hair and a nice complection. She danced gracefully and loved finery. At the age of twenty-one she moved to Springfield, Illinois to live with her sister, Ms Ninian Edwards. This is …showed first 75 words of 260 total…

…showed last 75 words of 260 total…her birth, and societies loyal to the Union suspected her of treason. She became less social after her son Willies death in 1862. Her husbands assassanation in 1865 shattered Mary. The next seventeen years yeld nothing but sorrow. With her son Thomas she traveled in search of health, tortured by her financial situation. She slipped into a world of her own. A sad, misunderstood and tragic woman, she passed away in 1882 at her sisters home in Springfield.