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Mamoo:	I understood that the	girls	were	to	be brought	up
according to the mother's religion and	the boys	according to	the
father. That's what I heard.
Alice:	Uncle David was Protestant.
Mamoo:	No, he married Aunt Mathilde.
Alice:	Yes he married Aunt Mathilde, but before that he was
Protestant. Uncle Albert was Protestant..
Mamoo:	Well I	don't know.
Alice:	It was	all	of the younger ones	who	became	Catholic.
Mamoo:	I just don't know.
Alice:	I know that.
Mamoo:	Aunt Mathilde. We should	have gotten	more	information	out
of her.	Aunt Mathilde died.
Did Arthemlse, did she die before Albert Baldwin?
Mamoo:	Did she die before Grandpapa?
Alice:	Yes, because I was in New Hampshire with Grandpapa when he
got the notice that Bonnemama had died. And he told me "Your Grandmother is gone." And he was not upset.
Mamoo:	He was not what?
Alice:	He was	not	upset about it.
Mamoo:	I remember	going to the funeral.	I	went	to	the	funeral.
Alice:	Bonnemama's funeral?
Mamoo:	Bonnemama's funeral, yes.
Alice:	And I remember Grandpapa lying in the casket with. . .
Mamoo:	No but I went to Bonnemama's funeral. Nellie, her white
maid, came and brought me some aromatic sprays to remind me of her. Nellie.
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