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Note: Along with her mother, Margaret, were reportedly the Lincoln Spiritualists. Others included, Henrietta Colburn Maynard (Nettie), Parthenium Hannum (Parnie), and Anna Crosby, Nettie Studevant Colburn Maynard wrote the book "Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist?" Philadelphia: Rufus C. Hartranft, 1891. This book details visits made by President Lincoln and wife Mary, to the Laurie's Georgetown Home, to attend Spirit Circles. The Lauries would also go to the White House, for these Spirit Circles, reportedly in the August or Red Room. on New Years Eve December 31, 1862...several accounts have Mary Lincoln as a guest of Cranstoun Laurie and wife Margaret, at their Georgetown home. See "Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs Keckley, The Remarkable Story Of The Friendship Between A First Lady And A Former Slave", By Jennifer Fleischner Page# 259. According to "Belle", she served as a battlefield and hospital nurse during the Civil War, sustaining several bullet wounds. President Lincoln gave her, she says, a gold medal " for devotion to sick and wounded soldiers during the war". While visiting the sick in prison in 1861, she met a soldier, Theophilus Youngs, a mechanic from New York City, who claimed he had "lost his certificate of discharge" from the Army. He then, went under the name Thomas C. Hart. They later married. Chicago Historical Society has a letter written by Belle (Laurie) Youngs, signed with Margaret Laurie, along with a lock of Lincoln's hair. The Chicago Historical Society asks if this could be authenic. See web sight at: http://www.chicagohs.org/wetwithblood/bloody/Bullethair/index.htm This would indeed be plausible, due to the fact that Cranstoun Laurie's step-brother, was a death bed Dr. present at the Petersen Boarding House, the night that President Lincoln was shot. His name was Dr. James Crowdhill Hall (Dr. J.C. Hall). Source, "BLOOD ON THE MOON, THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN," by Edward Steers, Jr. Page #313 note 25. Dr. Patterson viewed body (of Mary)and stated her death was due to heart disease. She died at the cottage of her son in law, Richard Goddard in Oxen Run, Maryland.
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