John Minchin Lloyd was a bricklayer and police officer in Washington, D.C., in the United States. He was one of the first police officers hired by the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of
Grave of John M. Lloyd at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
Mary Elizabeth Surratt was an American boarding house owner in Washington, D.C., who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy which led to the assassination of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln in
John M. Lloyd
…of the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination. Arrested but never charged in the conspiracy, Lloyd's testimony was critical in convicting Mary Surratt. John Minchin Lloyd's date of birth is not clear, but two sources have him born in 1835 in southern Maryland in the United States to William Lloyd. He…
A woodprint depicting Surrattsville and the Surratt home, printed in 1867 in Harper's Weekly.
John H. Surratt Jr. (seen here in 1868) was a Confederate courier.
Surratt's boarding house, c. 1890, little changed from how it looked during her occupancy.