Mary met Abraham Lincoln in 1839 at Elizabeth Edwards' home,[1] where they later married.
They would host many gatherings of the Springfield gentry, and Elizabeth invited her three sisters, including Mary, to live with her.
[1] Mary met Abraham Lincoln in one of the Edwards social gatherings and they married there on November 4, 1842.
[1] Mary Lincoln is believed to have suffered severe depression during her First Ladyship and after Abraham's death.
Her son, Robert Todd Lincoln, committed her to an insane asylum in 1875, over Elizabeth's objections.