Mary's funeral expenses

[RJNorton]

Thanks for posting the source, Susan.

Kathy, I don't remember ever reading what happened to the trunks. Maybe someone will know.

I thought I'd post a paragraph from the Life article dealing with the trunks:

"In the room next to her, Aunt Mary had 64 trunks. Grandmother's maid left because she was afraid to sleep under that room, with all that weight. The trunks were filled with bolts of curtain materials and dress goods. Aunt Mary had a lot of clothes in her trunks made out of elegant foreign material she bought abroad, and she had basted it together to look like dresses - to escape the customs duty. She wouldn't stop buying. Once she bought 300 pairs of gloves at one time and two dozen watches. She had about a hundred shawls. Every day she got up and went through those trunks for hours. Grandmother said it was funny, if Aunt Mary was so sick, that she was able to be up all day bending over her trunks."