and this would have been where elijah francis' house would have been sitting in this vicinity of 6th and jefferson street. >> and who were they? >> elijah and simeon. simeon was the editor of the newspaper. eliza was his wife, and when mr. lincoln and mary broke up for the first engagement, broke up -- their first engagement broke up? >> yeah. there's a lot of controversy about that breakup, if they broke up because of he got cold feet, or did he just feel like he was inadequate for mary? i think a lot of it was the pressure from her sisters because they always felt like he wasn't good enough for mary to marry because mary was a todd. so we don't know what really broke them up, but we know that they broke up right after new year's eve and they were miserable, both of them. so eliza and simeon, each one of them invited the other. them to dinner one night, not knowing the other one was going to be there. and they sat and talked that evening like they'd never been apart for each other and it had been like nine months and after that initial meeting, they started coming here secretly and m

this would have been where elijah and francis simeon's house would have been on jefferson street. >> simeon was the editor of the newspaper. eliza was his wife. mary firstncoln and engagement broke up -- >> their first engagement broke up? >> there is a lot of controversy about that breakup. if they broke up because he got just feel or did he like he was inadequate for mary? a lot of it was the pressure from her sisters. he wasn'ts felt like good enough for mary. afterw that they broke up new year's eve. both of them were miserable. eliza and simeon, each of them invited the other to dinner one night, not knowing the other one would be there. talked like they had never been apart. after that initial meeting they started coming secretly and , inting here at their home secret because she didn't want get involvedo again. >> you mentioned that mary todd's sisters didn't think that abraham lincoln was good enough. give me perspective on who wear the todd's and who was mary? >> the todd family were very wealthy people. they were the aristocracy of lexington. robert was a merchant and a pol