Major Rathbone's accomodation in Hannover

[Laurie Verge]

Great history, Eva. On an early Booth escape route tour, we had a participant whose mother still lived in Hildesheim, and she later sent us highlights of this history. She said there was evidence that Rathbone really didn't live in the asylum here, but rather in a special apartment set aside for him in the clerical residence.

This same source is the one who told us that the cemetery in Germany where Clara and Henry are buried was bombed into oblivion during WWII. She also doubted if the bodies were still there during the bombing, however, because of the European custom of emptying untended graves and reselling the plots.