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Author: Morgaine0721
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sisters named Cavanaugh lived in Scranton when I was a young girl:
Anna, Nell, Emma and Gertrude. Another sister, Mame, lived in NYC.
Unfortunatly, I have one male name only and since I saw
a man lying in bed in apparent distress (I was visiting my great auntEmma} and we were
walking down the hall to her room when I saw this very ill male Cavanaugh) whose name I
was told was Thomas, and after we left Aunt Emma's house a cousin told me that Tom was
an alcoholic.
So, Catherine was a child of an age when children swing on fences!
My gradmother Anna died at the age of 81. Gertrude her daughter died in 1996.
Sorry, the male side of the family is a mystery to me. My father told me the reason all
the Cavanaugh women had truble with their men was that the women formed a matriarchy.
Forgive my lack of data re: dates and my mispellings.
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