She was the daughter of very genteel folks who were mortified by her marrying an Irishman. They almost disowned her but her mother would still see her and her sisters stayed in touch. My grandmother had a genealogy map of her family. She divorced John David Kelly for DV. He took the boys, she took the girls. She worked as a piano teacher to pay expenses and they were very poor.
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