Īlthough her father was a nondenominational Protestant and her mother Episcopalian, Surratt was enrolled in a private Roman Catholic girls' boarding school, the Academy for Young Ladies in Alexandria, Virginia, on November 25, 1835. Her father died in the fall of 1825 when Mary was either two or five years old, and Mary's mother then inherited their property (originally part of the His Lordship's Kindness estate). She had two brothers: John Jenkins, born in 1822, and James Jenkins, born in 1825. There is uncertainty as to the month as well, but most sources say May. Sources differ as to whether she was born in 1820 or 1823. Mary Elizabeth Jenkins (baptismal name, Maria Eugenia) was born to Archibald and Elizabeth Anne (née Webster) Jenkins on a tobacco plantation near the southern Maryland town of Waterloo (now known as Clinton). Surratt was hanged on July 7, 1865, and later buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Johnson did not grant her clemency, though accounts differ as to whether or not he received the clemency request.
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Five of the nine judges at her trial asked that Surratt be granted clemency by President Andrew Johnson because of her age and gender. Weichmann, who testified about Surratt's relationships with John. She was convicted primarily due to the testimonies of Lloyd, who said that she told him to have the "shooting irons" ready, and Louis J. Lloyd.Īfter Lincoln was assassinated, Surratt was arrested, then tried by a military tribunal the following month, along with the other conspirators. Shortly before killing Lincoln, Booth spoke with Surratt and handed her a package containing binoculars for one of her tenants, John M. Booth visited the boardinghouse numerous times, as did George Atzerodt and Lewis Powell, Booth's co-conspirators in the Lincoln assassination. There, she was introduced to John Wilkes Booth. Tired of doing so without help, Surratt moved to her townhouse in Washington, D.C., which she then ran as a boardinghouse. Upon her husband's death in 1862, Surratt had to manage his estate. The Surratts were sympathetic to the Confederate States of America and often hosted fellow Confederate sympathizers at their tavern. An entrepreneur, John became the owner of a tavern, an inn, and a hotel. She wed John Harrison Surratt in 1840 and had three children with him. Surratt was the mother of John Surratt, who was later tried, but due to statute of limitations, was not convicted.īorn in Maryland in the 1820s, Surratt converted to Catholicism at a young age and remained a practicing Catholic for the rest of her life. She maintained her innocence until her death, and the case against her was and remains controversial. Sentenced to death, she was hanged and became the first woman executed by the U.S. Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt (1820 or May 1823 – July 7, 1865) was an American boarding house owner in Washington, D.C., who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy which led to the assassination of U.S.
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