Mary's funeral expenses

[Eva Elisabeth]

Nope, the trunks hadn't disappeared. When Mary returned to Springfield in fall 1880 to live with her sister, she "stored 64 trunks weighting nearly four tons in two back rooms, where they threatened the floorboards... she spent hours reexploring her possessions" (from J. Baker's bio).Catherine Clinton writes that "the pile of trunks caused one maid to flee because she didn't want to sleep under a ceiling weighted down by Mary's excess baggage". One major content were footstools.

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(Did you notice Jean Baker has 4 trunks less than Jason Emerson?)