what was president lincoln's wife's name? and did she have children.?

Answer 1

Indeed her name was Mary Todd Lincoln.
He had 4 children Robert, Edward, William and Thomas. Sadly he has no descendants to this time.
But a little known fact is his indirect descendant through his aunt Nancy Hanks is Tom Hanks.

Answer 2

Mary Todd Lincoln 4 boys

Answer 3

Family

On November 4, 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd who came from a prominent slave-owning family from Kentucky. The couple had four sons:

Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1 1843 - July 26 1926): born in Springfield, Illinois, and died in Manchester, Vermont.

Edward Baker Lincoln (March 10 1846 - February 1 1850): born and died in Springfield.

William Wallace Lincoln (December 21 1850 - February 20 1862): born in Springfield and died in Washington, D.C..

Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (April 4 1853 - July 16 1871): born in Springfield and died in Chicago.

Only Robert survived into adulthood. Lincoln greatly admired the science that flourished in the elite schools of New England and send him to Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College.

Among his wife's family, four of his brothers-in-law fought for the Confederacy with one wounded and another killed in action. Lieutenant David H. Todd, a half-brother of Mary Todd Lincoln, served as commandant of the Libby Prison camp during the war.

Answer 4

1. Mrs. Lincoln
2. Yes

Serious answers: She was the former Mary Todd of Springfield, IL, who's family was Southern in nature and sympathetic to the Confederacy (she also showed some such tendencies herself)
The children were Robert Todd Lincoln, who later served as Secretary of State and as an executive of the Pullman rail car company. He also had Mary Lincoln committed to an insane asylum. Then there was Edward Baker Lincoln, named for Lincoln's good friend Edward (Ned) Baker who died in infancy, Willie Lincoln who died in childhood, and Thomas Lincoln, called "Tad" who died of illness in 1871.
Robert Lincoln was thus the only on of the Lincoln children to live int adulthood, dying in 1926.

Answer 5

Mary Todd Lincoln

Robert
Willie
Tad
Edward

Answer 6

Mary Todd Lincoln. She and Abraham had 4 sons Robert, Tad, Willie and Eddie.

Answer 7

Mary Todd Lincoln. I think she had three children - Robert was the only one the lived past his childhood though. I think.

UPDATE: I stand corrected by the previous answer.

Answer 8

Her name was Mary Todd and she had 4 sons.

Answer 9

Disregaurd all but the last four paragraphs;


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1842 : Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd

After a stormy three-year courtship marked by a broken engagement, Abraham Lincoln marries Lexington, KY-born Mary Todd.

The couple first met in 1839 when Mary Todd moved from Kentucky to Springfield, Illinois, to live with her oldest sister, Elizabeth. Mary came from a distinguished family, and some of her relatives frowned upon her association with Lincoln, who was a country lawyer and a minor figure in the state legislature. Todd was nine years younger than Lincoln and stood just five feet two inches to his towering six-feet four-inch height. Over the objections of her sister, she married Lincoln on November 4, 1842.

The course of their marriage was not always smooth, owing largely to their differences in character--Lincoln was introspective and deficient in social graces, whereas his wife was lively, volatile, and self-indulgent. Temperaments clashed, but their love endured, even as the Civil War raged less than 30 miles from their home at the White House in Washington, D.C. Four sons were born of the marriage, but only the oldest, Robert Todd Lincoln, lived to maturity.

After her husband's assassination in 1865, Mary Todd suffered from bouts of mental instability. She died in Springfield, IL in 1882.

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