Box 4

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Three small datebooks from 1976, 1987, and 1988 used by Beatrice to track meetings and events.

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This folder primarily consists of forms and documentation related to Beatrice Kirkbride’s move to Stapley Hall (a “personal care boarding home for elderly people in Philadelphia under Quaker auspices.”)

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This folder contains newspaper clippings regarding the fate of the Eastern State Penitentiary building. It also includes correspondence and notes regarding Beatrice Kirkbride’s proposal to transform the Penitentiary into a “youth detention center.”

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Contains obituaries, numerous drafts of Beatrice Kirkbride's will, and a few copies of documents related to Power of Attorney. There is also a printed email from Jon Kirkbride to other family members informing them that "mom is 'not responding'."

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This folder consists of notes, pamphlets, and photocopied primary source documents collected for research into the family history of the Kirkbrides. The correspondence in the folder is addressed to Earle Kirkbride.

Scope and Contents This folder includes the “1978 Supplement to the Kirkbride Family History.” Leafed in amongst the pages of the supplement are letters between Kirkbride relatives and a series of invitations to the annual Kirkbride Family Reunion. The correspondence is addressed to Beatrice Kirkbride, with at least one letter being written by her which critiqued another person’s interpretation of who the first Kirkbrides were to live in what is today the United States.There is also a generic letter to Edward...

Scope and Contents Included in this folder are notes and essays re: the genealogy of the Hedley family. (Beatrice took Earle’s last name upon marriage, before that she was Beatrice Hedley.) Three essays by Beatrice’s brother DeBonsall cover part of the family’s connection to Quaker meetings, the history of one specific ancestor Charles Hawley Bidwell, and the “Ancestry from Numerius Julius Caesar to Violet Garrigues Hedley.”  There is an application on the part of Beatrice’s mother Luella to have Beatrice...

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This folder consists of letters written by Beatrice for research into the St. Clair family (from whom her mother-in-law, Ada Kirkbride, descended). There is also a set of photographs of family members and a set of newspaper clippings from June of 1946 which detail how an iron set Ada on fire. According to the clippings Beatrice put the fire out when Ada ran outside, but a few days later Ada died in hospital.

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This folder contains a set of photographs of Beatrice Rosslyn Franza (daughter of Beatrice Kirkbride), a letter and award for her 23 years as a staff member of Johns Hopkins University, and a copy of her last will and testament dated 1986. There are also a few photographs of her daughter (Elizabeth Anne Kraeger) and granddaughter (Sarah Kreager).