I wonder if the father just had an extraordinarily strong constitution, as he outlived his wife and all six children, and also survived primitive eye surgery without anesthetic (shudder).
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Originally Posted by Tarana
If poisoning from the graveyard were an issue, I'm sure Patrick, the father, would have died much earlier on.
The eldest 2 daughters died of tuberculosis (sp?) years before. It is possible that Emily was infected then, but the infection didn't spread to her lungs until she was older.
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