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Friday, January 21, 2005
BRICKWALL BUSTER #3
Nineteen-Year-Old South Side Girl Becomes Daughter of Spinster Family Reticent.
Miss M. Eugenia McCue, nineteen years old, has become the legally adopted daughter of Miss Elizabeth Rooney, a spinster, living at 4220 Grand boulevard. The adoption papers were filed in the Circuit Court and the petition granted by Judge Pinckney.
"Just a mere matter of business, to facilitate the transfer of property, " is the only explanation offered by Attorney R. E. Hogan.
Occupants of the house at 4220 Grand boulevard yesterday denied that Miss Rooney was at home or that they could tell anything about the matter. But the neighbors were not so discreet.
"There's been a lot of adopting in that house," one ventured. "The whole McCue family lives there with Miss Rooney -- they're Timothy F. McCue and his wife and Eugenia and some more, and they do say that two of the children are adopted. I don't know whether Eugenia was theirs by adoption or not."
"They say around here that Miss Rooney wants to leave the property to Eugenia, and adopted her so there wouldn't be so much chance of breaking her will, but that's all hearsay."
Mrs. McCue said it was very simple - merely a matter of business.
- Dated March 4, 1916, Chicago, IL
Nineteen-Year-Old South Side Girl Becomes Daughter of Spinster Family Reticent.
Miss M. Eugenia McCue, nineteen years old, has become the legally adopted daughter of Miss Elizabeth Rooney, a spinster, living at 4220 Grand boulevard. The adoption papers were filed in the Circuit Court and the petition granted by Judge Pinckney.
"Just a mere matter of business, to facilitate the transfer of property, " is the only explanation offered by Attorney R. E. Hogan.
Occupants of the house at 4220 Grand boulevard yesterday denied that Miss Rooney was at home or that they could tell anything about the matter. But the neighbors were not so discreet.
"There's been a lot of adopting in that house," one ventured. "The whole McCue family lives there with Miss Rooney -- they're Timothy F. McCue and his wife and Eugenia and some more, and they do say that two of the children are adopted. I don't know whether Eugenia was theirs by adoption or not."
"They say around here that Miss Rooney wants to leave the property to Eugenia, and adopted her so there wouldn't be so much chance of breaking her will, but that's all hearsay."
Mrs. McCue said it was very simple - merely a matter of business.
- Dated March 4, 1916, Chicago, IL
