From: "Mark Moran" <tward5@Bellsouth.net> To: "Jennifer Payne Guarino" <jguarino@mindspring.com>, <PAYNE-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: <PAYNE-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: Louisa Payne m. John Wilkes Booth, TN, 1872 Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:26:24 -0400 X-Priority: 3 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jennifer Payne Guarino <jguarino@mindspring.com> To: <PAYNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Louisa Payne m. John Wilkes Booth, TN, 1872 : Saw this in my local newspaper today and thought the Payne list may : be interested - this person claims a Payne family member married John : Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin: Hello Jennifer, I am CCing a copy of this to the list but not sure if it will go through, I have had trouble getting anything posted to the list. I too have this person in my tree along with some similiar info. Her name was Louisa J. Price, She had a first husband who's name was Zebadiah C. Payne who was wounded during the Civil war and later died because his wounds would not heal. I have a relative that told me there was an entry in an old family Bible that would confirm this but I have not seen it. I read an article in the Nashville newspaper about 7 years ago that said two professor's at the University of the South were trying to get permission to exhume this persons body to try to confirm these reports by checking to see if the corpse might have a broken leg bone. I have heard nothing more concerning that. It would be really interesting to know if there was any fact to this story. As I stated I have never been able to get messages posted to the list, if this one does'nt go thru, feel free to post it if you think it worth while. Below are the notes that I have on this subject: Her second husband, John Wilkes BOOTH, who was accused of shooting Abraham LINCOLN, had to leave his pregnant wife and step-son behind when he fled from Memphis, Tennessee. She later brought her two children to Pelham, Tennessee. One day while she was sweeping her yard, her long skirt was set fire by a small burning heap of trash, She died as a result of her burns. [per J. COATS Grundy County book, and as reported by Herald Chronical, Winchester, Tennessee, 23 May 1983]