Summary of Terry Alford's In the Houses of Their Dead

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#1 The minister found indifference, worldliness, and bigotry in Louisville. He thought that this was some practical joke being played on the greenest Yankee in the slaveholding city. But, no. Booth was deeply affected.

#2 Junius Brutus Booth, an actor, immigrated to the United States in 1821 with his companion Mary Ann Holmes. They had ten children, including Edwin and John Wilkes. Their lives were destroyed by their father’s alcoholism and mental illness.

#3 After the death of his children, Junius became extremely depressed. He blamed his manager, Thomas Hamblin, for eating pork, and he challenged him to a duel.

#4 Edwin was born on the night of November 13, 1833. The Leonid Meteor Shower of 1833 occurred over his head, and some thought that those born with it were divinely favored.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822582187

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#1

The minister found indifference, worldliness, and bigotry in Louisville. He thought that this was some practical joke being played on the greenest Yankee in the slaveholding city. But, no. Booth was deeply affected.

#2

Junius Brutus Booth, an actor, immigrated to the United States in 1821 with his companion Mary Ann Holmes. They had ten children, including Edwin and John Wilkes. Their lives were destroyed by their father’s alcoholism and mental illness.

#3

After the death of his children, Junius became extremely depressed. He blamed his manager, Thomas Hamblin, for eating pork, and he challenged him to a duel.

#4

Edwin was born on the night of November 13, 1833. The Leonid Meteor Shower of 1833 occurred over his head, and some thought that those born with it were divinely favored.

#5

The family of Junius and Mary Ann Booth was very large, and they were very devoted to the actor and his family. Mary Ann was afflicted with exotropia, a form of strabismus in which her left eye deviated outward.

#6

The Booths were a family of performers. They were well liked by their neighbors, though they were strange and quixotic. Richard Booth, Junius’s father, died at night in a Baltimore tavern during the winter of 1839. The body of the retired London lawyer was kept in the receiving vault of undertaker John H. Weaver until the weather permitted Junius to bury it six months later.

#7

Mary Ann and the children had difficulties as well. Mary Ann was