Elizabeth Todd Edwards

Elizabeth Porter Todd Edwards (13 November 1813 – 22 February 1888) was the sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. She served as Mary's guardian for many years. Mary met Abraham Lincoln in 1839 at Elizabeth Edwards' home, where they later married. In 1875 Elizabeth helped Mary get released from an insane asylum. The Edwards lived in a well-to-do house on Aristocracy Hill in Springfield, Illinois. They would host many gatherings of the Springfield gentry, and Elizabeth invited her three sisters, including Mary, to live with her. Elizabeth lived in the White House with her sister Mary for the inauguration. She returned in 1862 to console Mary after the death of her son Willie.