My immigrant great-great-grandmother Mary Sullivan Lynch lived in this house for a year in 1903 with her son Timothy. She was a widow at the time. I’m confident that she had little or nothing to do with the church next door which was built in 1890 because she was a Catholic and belonged to St. Mary’s church, down the street. But I drew it anyway, because it was an interesting next-door neighbor. Mary had ten children, according to a census form, of which I have found records of eight, including two that I believe died as children back in Ireland, where they were very poor. When Mary died in 1911, the obituary in the newspaper described her this way: “She was a woman of pleasing characteristics, and her death will be deeply regretted.”
Visiting the Relatives 