"On top of that, they lost their son, whose name was Ted," he noted. Thomas "Tad" Lincoln died 6 years after Lincoln's death, making the former president's statement false. Taking to social media ...

His youngest son, Tad Lincoln, died in 1871. Lincoln suffered from “melancholia,” the nineteenth-century term for clinical depression. He would enter such bouts that would last for weeks on end.

Abraham Lincoln is often ranked as one of the United ... 11-year-old Willie died of typhoid fever. Little Tad, who eventually recovered from the typhoid fever he had at the same time as Willie ...