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Mom (Isabel Lynch Fulkerson writes to Virginia Lynch Fowler and Mrs. Esther Southwell Fisher in July 28, 1979:
When my father Richard Montgomery Lynch came to the Northwest in 1910 he found the name of Mary Ann Lynch in the Seattle phone directory and discovered she was a cousin and she became our Cousin Molly. She lived on Mercer Island, in Seattle. She married a Lynch ( I don't know his name or relationship) but she told us she was married in Richmond, Virginia right after the Civil War. She said when he asked for her hand in marriage her father had locked her in her room and her husband slipped the engagement ring to her under the door.
She left VIrginia with several children after her husband died. One son, James was as I remember hired to drive some cattle West and she came with him at that time. The children I do know of were Polly, Emma, James, and Montgomery. Montgomery Lynch was a fine music director and directed Blossomtime in the Saint Louis Stadium. He married a lady who played the organ. I am almost sure that Polly was the nickname of Mary Ann as was Molly for her mother. Cousin Montgomery was a huge attractive man and I remember (as a kid) his sitting on a chair and becoming stuck to it. You can imagine Ada and me at that time!
Cousin Jim talked Cousin Molly (probably 90 years old at that time) to take a plane ride with him. This of course made headlines. She was a very neat and lovely lady. Cousin Emma was killed in a car accident. She was Mrs. Raymond Ogden of Seattle, he is a corporation lawyer in Seattle and in business with his son Ray Ogden, Jr. I think Cousin Molly may be the Mary Ann Lynch born Jan 28, 1848 to Montgomery and Martha R. Lynch.
I owe many apologies to my cousins in New Iberia for being so slow answering her letters and acknowledging all the things she did. We hope to come back to Louisiana some day and also get to Dallas. My mother used to talk of Neimann Marcus and I thought it was a part of heaven.
I should tell you of the excursions my father had us make to visit Cousin Molly. We four children and Mother and Father would take a street car to the Point Defiance wharfs and take a boat to Seattle. After we docked in Seattle we would take a cable car to Leshi Park whcih was across the lake from Mercer Island. We would take a small boat called the Dawn to Mercer Island. Then a happy family dinner of the Tacoma Lynches, the Mercer Island Lynch-McLarens and Lynch Ogdens - all three families with potluck menus - after which poor Dad herded all six of us back to the Dawn, to the cable car, to the boat to Tacoma, and finally to the street car in Tacoma to our home! Mother was a very tiny lady and I think such things might have kept her that way.
There are some Odgens in Seattle, but I don't know them.
All this is a hodgepodge but serves to round out the Northwest Lynch group.
Someday we will meet. meanwhile, Love, Isabel Mary Lynch Fulkerson
P.S. Cousin Molly called herself an Unreconstructed Rebel. She said before they could be married she and her husband had to swear allegiance to the flag.
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