“I was so christened,” she replied. Lizzie’s mother died in 1862. Left with two daughters to raise, her father, Andrew Borden, soon married a chubby spinster of 38 named Abby Durfee Gra ...
FALL RIVER, Massachusetts — “Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she ...