Cornelius and His Daughters

A couple photos and three obituaries:

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Cornelius in Uniform

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Aunt Alice, age 84

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Cornelius Boulton's obituary
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Isabella Boulton's obituary
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Eliza Boulton Jeffs' obituary
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Bright's disease is a kidney disease, now called acute nephritis. It is the same thing that killed Emily Dickenson. The poem quoted in the article is "O, Why Should the Mortal Spirit Be Proud?" by William Knox (1789–1825).