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This picture is so interesting to me
because the man is a brother-in-law to the two ladies.
This is Patrick John Donahue who was the husband of the late
'Molle' Hepworth with Mollie's younger sisters Maria 'Rie' b 21 April 1862 and
Charlotte "Lottie' b 14 Aug 1865.
Seems everyone had a nickname.
Maria or Rie married Charles Moench in about 1884 in Salt Lake
City and moved to Butte, Montana where Charles worked in a mine. They had one
child named Rose born in 1885. Rose was only nine months old when her
father died. Rie never remarried and Rose and her mother lived in the large beautiful Hepworth house for more than twenty years.
Charlotte or 'Lottie' was twenty nine years old when she married
Irving Higley in 1895. Irving and Lottie
did not have any children.
‘Rie died at the age of ninety one in 1953. Three years later ‘Lottie’
died at the age of ninety 1956 and was the last one of the twelve children. That's a long time to live back then.
Pat did remarry and died at the age of eighty two in 1932.
I will post more about the lives of ‘Rie’, ‘Lottie’ and Pat later.
Renée
