who is mary surratt and john surratt? well, mary sarah was a 43 year old woman, catholic widow, who had a son, john junior. her husband earlier. john's, who had senior, had died previously, lee johnson junior is a confederate operative, an agent who's part of the confederacy's web of secrets service operatives, and her daughter anna, and their two members throughout was she was a southerner, a loyalist, a friend of john wilkes booth, and she was not pro lincoln pro-union, that's for sure. her son, john, was involved in the earlier plot, which is partly planned in this house to kidnap abraham lincoln after his second inauguration and take him hostage for the confederacy, either as a pawn for negotiation to change the outcome of the war. we don't know exactly what the plot was and what they plan to do once they got lincoln. but the plan was to seize lincoln and take him away and that didn't happen because the very night they gathered on the road to capture lincoln, lincoln attended an event outside, the national hotel john