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Some kind of septic poisoning in connection with the birth.

What happened to your family then?

Then this wonderful woman, my father's sister Nannie [“Auntie” Ochs], who had never married and who had taken care of their mother, Bertha Levy Ochs, through the last years of their mother's life -- the confederate lady that I spoke of earlier -- The mother was an invalid in the latter years of her life, and I understand was very much of a highly dominating, almost tyrannical figure.

And what is her name?

Bertha Levy Ochs. I never knew her, because she died in 1908, several years before I was born. But my aunt, Nannie Ochs, the one unmarried member of the six brothers and sisters -- Adolph, George and Milton were the three boys and Ada, Mattie and Nannie were the three sisters. Nannie had never married, as I understand the story -- though she of course never spoke about it -- due to the opposition of Adolph who didn't like the man whom she was going to get married to in the South. Adolph didn't approve of him just as Adolph didn't approve of my father remaining in politics. I can't swear to any of this but this was my impression of what happened.

Anyway, Nannie, who was quite a marvelous person who brought me up, came to Philadelphia -- she was actually at the time living in France. But she'd never married. Her