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From: "futch.carberry" <>
Subject: Re: The Poor House
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 06:17:57 -0700


James Glancey wrote in reply to Gene Stackhouse:
"I had the same experience you did growing up--always hearing us kids
"were driving me to the poor house." A few years ago, I asked an aunt
if there really was a poor house and she said most certainly there was.
The one in Germantown was up around Price Street near St. Vincent's."

My father also used that expression, and then I found out that his great
aunt Bridget Donnellan Cannon did end up in the Home for the Aged on
Church Lane, Germantown, that was run by the Little Sisters of the Poor.
She was admitted in 1907; I found her there on the 1910 census, with
my ggrandmother as a resident as well, then Bridget died in 1916 and was
buried in an unmarked grave at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Her church, as
listed on the death certificate, was the Immaculate Conception, on 1020
East Price Street, the one which cannot supply parish records from that
time (but this list already had a thread on that problem). My ggrandmother
went back home to Roxborough to die, in 1912, after her daughter-in-law
consented to have her back in the house.

BTW, the records of the Home are kept at the Queen of Peace Home in Queens,
717-464-1800, a facility of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

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