Minnesota, August 1938

Katie Deary, Katie's daughter, Ray McDevitt, Katie's daughter, Mary Lola McDevitt, Leonard McDevitt, Therese McDevitt

The way the story goes (as told to me by Aunt Therese and via notes we found in Grandma's handwriting)......

                in August, 1938 Uncle Leonard wanted to go up to visit Uncle Walter in Minnesota and to look at some land that Uncle Walter was farming. Grandpa thought he should go along to check on his little brother, too.  Well, Grandma never liked to see a car go only partially full, so she sent Therese and Margaret Mary and Mary Lola along for the ride.  While they were in Minnesota, they also stopped to visit Katie Deary and her family.  Katherine McDermott was the widow of Edward B. Deary. Edward was the great-grandson of Ellen Bradley and a cousin of the McDevitt boy's father William McDevitt.  Katie and Ed Deary had four children Edward, Margaret, Marcianna and Angela.

Katie Deary and three of her four children.

Meanwhile, back in Gooselake....

       Leon and Patrick were sent out to 'the brothers' farm to help Uncle Godfrey while Uncle Leonard was gone. And Paul McDevitt came to the Ray McDevitt place to help Aloysius with the chores.  The very next day after the travelers departed for Minnesota, Josephine came down with a fever.  So Aloysius had to be the babysitter (Alice was only 1 1/2 years old at the time) and cook as well as run the farm.  Josephine said he did a good job!

Below are postcards that Therese sent to her mom and brother Pat while on the trip to Minnesota, and the notes that Josephine made about the event.