Being 5 blocks away from Fords Theater Mary Surratt's boarding house served as a home for conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination. John Wilkes Booth was a famous actor at the Fords theater and had a hatred for the president for sometime. He gathered a group together to take down many union figure heads. Three days after the assassination of Lincoln authorities visited Mary at her boarding house and arrested her later hanging her for being a conspirator. The boarding house, although never housing a real meeting, was referred to as "the nest in which the egg was hatched". Mary's son who had more to do with the murder than her was acquitted. Mary housed union and confederates alike during her days running the house but had both sons who fought for the confederacy.
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