Deep Roots Family Tree Blog

Surprising discovery

I’ve posted about him before, but this is Michael O’Laughlen (1840-1867). He is a somewhat distant ancestor of my work bestie’s-husband and an Abraham Lincoln assassination co-conspirator. He was a childhood friend of John Wilkes Booth.

He would claim that he dropped out of the plot to kill Lincoln, but he did end up being charged as an accomplice to booth. He was sentenced to life in prison, but instead passed away un 1867 from a breakout of yellow fever at the prison.

To read more, go take a look at my previous post called “Lincoln assassination co-conspirator”.