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A Mended Branch
Catherine “Kate” McMahon came to America in 1900, and last year, from a farm in County Kerry, Ireland, I got a message from someone looking for her. Kate was the McMahon that left. The rest had stayed behind in the then gritty city of Cork. My online family tree had provided the missing link for the searcher from Ireland. Kate went to America and married a man from her old neighborhood soon after. She took his name -O’Connor, and evidently was lost track of over time. I know a little about Kate because she was my great-grandmother.
This house on Academy Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island was her residence when she died in 1939 at the age of 61. She was renting an apartment with three of her ten grown children: Margaret who was a “typist”, and Frank and Bernie who worked at the same big rubber factory that their late father had worked.
A long time ago, I wrote to Margaret, then very old, for some family history. She sent me some copies of letters she had written about visiting relatives in Ireland way back in the 1960’s. I can’t remember making much of them until I was contacted by the Irish farmer’s wife. Digging them up from the bottom of a file cabinet, I found that it was her family, in Tralee, that Margaret had visited. A broken branch is now mended.
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