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Lucy Lambert Hale (January 1, 1841 – October 15, 1915) was the daughter of U.S. Senator John Parker Hale of New Hampshire, and was a noted Washington, D.C., society belle. She attracted many admirers including Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Robert Todd Lincoln; and stage actor and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth, to whom she was secretly ...
Mar 8, 2019 · My go-to answer is always to a highlight a woman few people have ever heard of: Lucy Lambert Hale. When John Wilkes Booth was captured and ultimately shot by Union soldiers, there were photos of five women in his pockets.
6 days ago · Lucy Lambert Hale of Dover, NH, legend says, was secretly engaged to actor John Wilkes Booth when he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865. Both had been staying at the National Hotel in Washington, DC where they had met months earlier.
Sep 29, 2014 · Here’s a photo of Lucy Lambert Hale found on the body of John Wilkes Booth after his execution at Garrett’s farm and then hidden away for over 65 years.
Jun 1, 2020 · Lucy Lambert Hale, the Senator’s daughter who caught the eye of John Wilkes Booth. Lucy and Booth’s paths might have crossed as early as January 1865 when they both found themselves residing at the National Hotel which was located on the northeastern corner of the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and 6 th Street, N.W. in Washington, D.C.
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A Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association visitor guestbook contains the signature of 21-year-old Lucy Lambert Hale, the daughter of U.S. Senator John Parker Hale of New Hampshire. She visited Mount Vernon on February 8, 1862, with the president’s son Robert Todd Lincoln, whose name appears above hers.
Feb 14, 2014 · Photograph of Lucy Lambert Hale found on John Wilkes’ Booth’s body. But it was the anonymous Valentine’s Day card she received in 1862 from a secret admirer, and the romance it spawned, for which she will be forever remembered.
When such a girl moves in high circles, she is bound to attract men whose names one day will mean something in history. Few in America’s past can match the record of Lucy Lambert Hale, the younger daughter of John P. Hale, one of New Hampshire’s Civil War senators. Lucy was born at Dover in 1842.
Lucy Lambert Hale (January 1, 1841 – October 15, 1915) was the daughter of U.S. Senator John Parker Hale of New Hampshire, and was a noted Washington, D.C., society belle.
Lucy Lambert Hale, ca. 1865, courtesy of Ford’s Theatre. Lucy met John Wilkes Booth at one of his performances in Washington, D.C., when he played the character Charles De Moor in “The Robbers” (1862 or 1863).
