![]() ![]() Tad became hysterical with grief, shouting “They have killed Papa dead!” Sadly, Tad did not survive long himself, dying of unknown causes at age eighteen his mother was too grief-stricken to attend his funeral. On the night of Lincoln’s assassination, Tad was at another Washington theater when the manager announced to the audience that the president had been shot. Numb with grief, his wife inconsolable, Lincoln had to persevere even as his innate melancholia worsened with Willie’s death. Lincoln indulged Tad’s rambunctious behavior because of the tragedy that befell the family when Tad’s brother William (1850–1862) died of typhus. ![]() He suffered from a cleft palate, which caused him speech problems. Thomas Lincoln (1853–1871)-nicknamed “Tad” by his father as a short form of “tadpole” because he was a squirmy, hyperactive child-was the youngest of three Lincoln boys. Object Details Artist Alexander Gardner, - Sitter Abraham Lincoln, - Thomas Lincoln, - Exhibition Label Abraham Lincoln’s family was both a refuge and a trial for him while president. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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