I went to Boston again last week. I found Michael O'Brien's will at the Probate Court - they just handed me the original. It's only one page. He left everything to be split equally between his seven children. There's a court document that lists the names and addresses of all seven, which gave me the married name of two of his daughters. His total estate was worth $6,360.24. I tried one of those online old money calculators and it comes out as anything between $75,000 and $250,000. It all depends on whether you compare the consumer price indices or the increase in per capita income, something, blah, blah, I don't know.
I couldn't find anything at the Boston Public Library on Maurice Flynn, so I went up to Holy Cross Cemetery and wandered around in the wind and rain, but managed to find the family grave just as the rain let up. I got some good pictures. And in the evening I went to the Boston temple to do the endowment for Eliza Roche there in her adopted home. I've been in touch with Bob and I'm going back again this weekend to stay with him.
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The pictures of the Egyptian exhibit came out wonderfully and are safely tucked in my computer's harddrive. I'll be sure to bring the camera by your work tomorrow so you can dazzle us all with those pictures! :D
I guess maybe Maurice isn't our painter or Grandpa Al could have been wrong.
I think it is wonderful that you are there doing endowment work for our family. How proud and pleased they are with you. I am teaching 2 sunday school classes, both of which are on family history, and my favourite guy, Elijah. I think he is really cool!!!
I love how Jonathan - the little root on our family tree - has become the point of reference for our identities! From now on I'm going to refer to Frank Paul as "J's great-great-great-great-grandfather". And no doubt they are all completely in love with J just as we are. I'm sure he was quite the man about town as his premortal self, and surely word has spread of his earthly exploits!
P.s. I removed my own comment. It was riddled with errors and I couldn't edit it.
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