Published May 12, 2013 at 1092 × 1075 in John Surratt Pictures ← Previous Next → Photograph of John Surratt with his daughter, Mary Victorine Scott Surratt Weller. She was bedridden in her later years and died of kidney disease on Oct. 24, 1904. Victorine Surratt (born Hunter) was born in 1846, to Thomas Hunter and Susannah Scott Hunter (born Key). Surratt later took a job as a teacher in St. Joseph Catholic School in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
The Aug. 16, 1865, Evening Star, quoting from a Boston Herald correspondent, revealed that Mary Surratt’s legal counsel was pressuring Anna to sell the house. In 1922, one owner turned the ground floor into a store and the second and third floors into apartments. The bride, said the Baltimore Sun the next day, “appeared in better health than she has enjoyed for years.” The couple then headed “on a bridal tour North.” This strict attention to privacy was to characterize Anna’s later years. At last, it looked as if a quiet life lay ahead, but in 1880, the politicians had other ideas. The Times noted that the only spirit to be found in his household was “that of the ‘bold John Barley Corn’ ” — in other words, liquor. She looked very pale as the men led her to the scaffold steps and she ascended, her hands manacled behind her. The house was sold in November 1867, and the property in Surrattsville The ceremony was kept private, and there were no bridesmaids. The trial ended on June 28, 1865, and the court decided on the death penalty for Mary Surratt and her co-conspirators Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt and David Herold.However, five of the nine judges signed a letter asking Anna Surratt is remembered chiefly for her heartbreaking efforts to save her mother from being hanged by the U.S. government. She wanted to live her life as quietly as possible. Historical opinion is divided on the subject.
The trial began on May 9, 1865, and continued until the end of June.
JavaScript is required for full functionality on this website, but scripting is currently disabled. Among other things, she was accused of allowing her boardinghouse in downtown Washington to be used as a meeting place for Booth and friends. Four days after her marriage, some spiteful soul at the War Department fired Tonry from his job. Just a short time before the tavern sale, the Daily Memphis Avalanche ran a brief snippet: “Annie [sic] Surratt will remove to Baltimore and become a school teacher.” Later that same year, on June 17, Anna married professor William P. Tonry. The home finally was sold on Nov. 13, 1867.
John Surratt, her younger brother, was on the run as a purported Booth conspirator. The Washington Times Many historians have linked Mary (Jenkins) Surratt, co-conspirator of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, as a cousin of both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Francis Scott Key. She said she knew nothing of Booth’s plans, and that her trips to Surrattsville had to do with collecting money she was owed by a man named John Nothey.The prosecution’s strategy was to tie Mary Surratt to the conspiracy, and most of their case rested on the testimony of two men: her tenant at Surrattsville John Lloyd and one of her boarders Louis Weichman.
At this point, except for family friends, Anna was quite alone. They had 7 children. On July 7, 1865, the day of the execution, he stationed relays of cavalry all the way to the White House. Documents of Victorine Surratt (born Hunter) There was an older brother named Isaac who had been fighting for the Confederacy, but he had yet to come home. This appears to be incorrect as the link is actually through Mary's son John Harrison Surratt's wife Mary Victorine Hunter. About midnight the friends and relatives of the prisoners began to arrive. Several families did, in fact, occupy the house over the next two years. Anna is remembered chiefly for her heartbreaking — and unsuccessful — efforts to save her mother, Mary, from being hanged by the U.S. government as a member of John Wilkes Booth’s gang. Four of the defendants were sentenced to death, including Mary Surratt. Just a few close friends were invited. Just then, Mrs. Stephen Douglas, widow of the late senator, showed up and swept past the guards to see the president on Anna’s behalf. The building still stands, though the interior has undergone further alterations. He opened a tavern that served as a polling place, post office and part time hotel. Somebody tried to use Hancock’s connection with the Mary Surratt execution to turn voters against him. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, who had served the North in such battles as Gettysburg, was in command at the Washington Penitentiary, where the defendants were being held. There also was a Surratt tavern in Surrattsville (now Clinton). The occupant just then was a brevet brigadier general, George W. Balloch, the chief disbursing officer for the Freedman’s Bureau. During the presidential campaign that year, the Republicans nominated James A. Garfield, and the Democrats chose Hancock. Weichmann then drove her to the Surrattsville tavern on April 11 and April 14, the day of the assassination.Mary Surratt’s fate was sealed by John Lloyd, who testified that she had requested that he have the field glasses and carbines ready for Booth and Herold when they arrived at the tavern late on the night of the assassination. Her brothers John and Isaac lived nearby, they gradually let the conspiracy issue rest.During the 1880 presidential campaign, however the Republicans nominated Anna and her family finally dropped out of the news, and Anna eventually had two more children. John was born on April 13 1844, in Maryland. It was in one of the administrative buildings at the Penitentiary that the assassination conspiracy trial was held. Both of her parents were dead, one of her brothers was on the run and the other had not returned from serving in the Confederate army. Anna eventually would have two more children. Ella Key SURRATT was born 30 Nov 1885 in Baltimore,MD, and died Apr 1980 in SS# 215-70-2896,a94y,Baltimore,MD. The Aug. 16, 1865, Evening Star, quoting from a Boston Herald correspondent, revealed that Mary Surratt’s legal counsel was pressuring Anna to sell the house.