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Josephine Moran (Shields)                     April 24, 1888- April 3, 1974
Josephine on Catherine St. Josephine (back right)
Josephine Moran married Martin J Shields and had 6 children (as well as 4 failed pregnancies including twins).
Thomas       1910
Dorothy      1913
James          1916?
Martin Jr.    1918
Helen           1923
Mary            1927
 After her last child Mary she became mentally unstable and was placed in a sanatorium in Poughkeepsie, NY , where she lived out the rest of her life. She didn't recognize any of her children although her oldest daughter  Dorothy would visit her.
Josephine and her daughter Dot in Poughkeepsie. Hudson River State Hospital (Poughkeepsie, NY)
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