What is Mary Todd Lincoln?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Mary Todd Lincoln |image = Mary Todd Lincoln2crop.jpg |alt=Black and white photograph of Mary Todd Lincoln |caption=Mary Todd Lincoln at age 43, (1861) |birth_name = Mary Ann Todd |birth_date = {{birth date|1818|12|13}} |birth_place = [[Lexington, Kentucky]], [[United States]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1882|07|16|1818|12|13}} |death_place = [[Springfield, Illinois]], United States |order = [[First Lady of the United States]] |president = [[Abraham Lincoln]] |term_start = March 4, 1861 |term_end = April 15, 1865 |term_label = In role |predecessor = [[Harriet Lane]] |successor = [[Eliza McCardle Johnson]] |spouse = [[Abraham Lincoln]] (1842–1865) |children = Robert Todd Lincoln <br>Edward Lincoln <br>Willie Lincoln <br>Tad Lincoln |relations = Robert Smith Todd (Father)<br>Eliza (Parker) Todd (Mother) |signature = Appletons' Lincoln Abraham - Mary signature.png }} '''Mary Ann Todd Lincoln''' (née '''Todd'''; December 13, 1818&nbsp;– July 16, 1882) was the wife of the sixteenth [[President of the United States]], [[Abraham Lincoln]], and was [[First Lady of the United States]] from 1861 to 1865. ==Early life== She was born in [[Lexington, Kentucky]]. Her father was Robert Smith Todd and her mother was Eliza Parker. Her parents were prominent residents of the city. Mary's paternal great-grandfather, David Levi Todd, was born in County Longford, [[Ireland]], and emigrated through Pennsylvania to [[Kentucky]]. Her great-great maternal grandfather Samuel McDowell was born in [[Scotland]], and emigrated to Pennsylvania. Other Todd ancestors came from [[England]].<ref>[http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=17 Mary Lincoln] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509090243/http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=17 |date=2012-05-09 }}. Firstladies.org. Retrieved on 2014-01-11.</ref> When she was around twenty years old, Mary came to [[Illinois]] where her sister Elizabeth live