Surviving family and home Mary Surratt
mudds, surratts want name cleared , atlanta journal-constitution sunday, september 2, 1979
anna surratt moved townhouse on h street , lived friends few years, ostracized society. married william tonry, government clerk. lived in poverty while after dismissed job, in time, became professor of chemistry in baltimore , couple became wealthy. strain of mother s death left anna mentally unbalanced, , suffered periods of extreme fear bordered on insanity. died in 1904. after dismissal of charges against him, john, jr. married , , family lived in baltimore near sister, anna. isaac surratt returned united states , lived in baltimore (he never married). died in 1907. isaac , anna buried on either side of mother in mt. olivet cemetery. john jr. buried in baltimore in 1916. in 1968, new headstone brass plaque replaced old, defaced headstone on mary surratt s grave.
mary surratt s boarding house still stands , listed on national register of historic places in 2009. citizens interested in mary surratt formed surratt society. surrattsville tavern , house historical sites run today surratt society. washington arsenal fort lesley j. mcnair.
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