Mary's Reputation

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Thanks, Blaine. I'm surprised at the brother living in Colorado with tuberculosis. I thought Arizona or New Mexico were the preferred treatment areas for drying out the lungs.

My great uncle, Joseph Riley Huntt (the baby that had the Huntts up for feeding about 1 am on April 15, 1865, as Booth and Herold rode past the house), inherited the tuberculosis trait that ran in his mother's family and spent time in Arizona in the early-1880s drying out his lungs. I have a great photo of him in Western rawhide and a sombrero.

He subsequently went on to study medicine and became a general practitioner and railroad doctor back in Maryland. I bet that Western garb never saw the light of day in Maryland.