Before we can enter understandingly into the actual story of the courtship of Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, before we can read in the light of knowledge the letters that passed between them ...

Apart from Mary Todd Lincoln, other significant women in Abraham Lincoln's life include Ann Rutledge, Mary Owens, and a woman named Betsey. Although it isn’t confirmed, Ann Mayes Rutledge was ...

The show explores his youth as a flatboat pilot on the Mississippi, his early love for Ann Rutledge, his troubled marriage to the difficult and mentally fragile Mary Todd, and his attempt to be a ...

Shirley Ann Rutledge, 68, of Gastonia, NC, passed away Sunday, April 6, 2025, at her residence. She was born April 12, 1956, a native Gaston Co, NC, daughter of the late Thomas and Betty Beam. A ...

But the episode which must have seemed to Lincoln himself to transcend all other experiences in that brief but important period—his love for Ann Rutledge has been the subject of conjecture ...