Mother of three children, Mary Emma; James Flood (died young) and James Flood.
Her life was one of color, social activities and quiet philanthropies and in the days before her husband's death in 1926, dedicated to community service. Active member of San Francisco Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Maud was mistress of several mansions in California. Her husband died in 1926 and she gradually withdrew from public life. In 1939 she gave her mansion at 2222 Broadway, San Francisco, to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and moved to a two story penthouse at the famed Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. When Maud died at age ninety, she had occupied the penthouse on the seventh and eighth floors since 1939.
Maud's personal life was very complex in her young years. Maud married James Leary Flood, who had a daughter, Constance May Flood, with his first wife Rose Flood, who happened to be Maud's sister. After a while, Constance disappeared and was never seen again. His first wife, Rose, was a shapely burlesque queen, known as "Petey" who ran away from the Fritz family home. James was madly in love with her and when his father learned of his son's intention's he was enraged and attempted anything in his power to prevent it. James followed Rose and married her anyway. When James and Rose returned from Europe they stopped in Kansas City to visit her family, and invited her young sister, Maud, who was only eleven, to come and live with them at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
When Maud's sister, Rose Flood died following an operation, James' grief was overwhelming so he decided on an ocean voyage to the Orient to help him get over his loss of the woman for whom he had risked disinheritance when he married her. He took with him his little daughter Constance along with Maud and the brother, Walter Fritz. James and Rose had been married eleven years. Maud who had lived almost continuously with them since age eleven years old, was twenty two when her sister, Rose died at age thirty-six. A year after Rose's death Maud married James in a ceremony at her parents home in Kansas City. James was forty two and Maud was twenty three. This was the last San Franciscan's heard or saw Constance and Constance never saw her father again.
When James Flood died, Constance May Gavin, wife of John Gavin, filed a lawsuit as a rightful heir and daughter of James Flood. This became one of the most scandalous and watched trials in San Francisco and beyond. Maud fought hard to get rid of the lawsuit and succeeded the first time, however, The Supreme Court of California ordered another trial for Constance because of the scandalous conduct of the first trial Judge who ordered the jury to give a verdict in favor of the Flood heirs among other things.
When Constance was given a new court date, the Flood heirs offered to settle out of court with Constance for a million plus dollars.
Constance in frail health, accepted the settlement without court recognition as a daughter of James Flood. She agreed not to use the name of Flood.
So the mystery ends?
Photos: Mansion is called "Linden Towers" and built by Maud's father-in-law, James C. Flood, at Menlo Park, California. It was taken down many years ago.
Photo: Maude and her son, James Flood, (her son with James Flood after she married James after her sister's death) taken during court hearing in San Francisco.
Her life was one of color, social activities and quiet philanthropies and in the days before her husband's death in 1926, dedicated to community service. Active member of San Francisco Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Maud was mistress of several mansions in California. Her husband died in 1926 and she gradually withdrew from public life. In 1939 she gave her mansion at 2222 Broadway, San Francisco, to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and moved to a two story penthouse at the famed Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. When Maud died at age ninety, she had occupied the penthouse on the seventh and eighth floors since 1939.
Maud's personal life was very complex in her young years. Maud married James Leary Flood, who had a daughter, Constance May Flood, with his first wife Rose Flood, who happened to be Maud's sister. After a while, Constance disappeared and was never seen again. His first wife, Rose, was a shapely burlesque queen, known as "Petey" who ran away from the Fritz family home. James was madly in love with her and when his father learned of his son's intention's he was enraged and attempted anything in his power to prevent it. James followed Rose and married her anyway. When James and Rose returned from Europe they stopped in Kansas City to visit her family, and invited her young sister, Maud, who was only eleven, to come and live with them at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
When Maud's sister, Rose Flood died following an operation, James' grief was overwhelming so he decided on an ocean voyage to the Orient to help him get over his loss of the woman for whom he had risked disinheritance when he married her. He took with him his little daughter Constance along with Maud and the brother, Walter Fritz. James and Rose had been married eleven years. Maud who had lived almost continuously with them since age eleven years old, was twenty two when her sister, Rose died at age thirty-six. A year after Rose's death Maud married James in a ceremony at her parents home in Kansas City. James was forty two and Maud was twenty three. This was the last San Franciscan's heard or saw Constance and Constance never saw her father again.
When James Flood died, Constance May Gavin, wife of John Gavin, filed a lawsuit as a rightful heir and daughter of James Flood. This became one of the most scandalous and watched trials in San Francisco and beyond. Maud fought hard to get rid of the lawsuit and succeeded the first time, however, The Supreme Court of California ordered another trial for Constance because of the scandalous conduct of the first trial Judge who ordered the jury to give a verdict in favor of the Flood heirs among other things.
When Constance was given a new court date, the Flood heirs offered to settle out of court with Constance for a million plus dollars.
Constance in frail health, accepted the settlement without court recognition as a daughter of James Flood. She agreed not to use the name of Flood.
So the mystery ends?
Photos: Mansion is called "Linden Towers" and built by Maud's father-in-law, James C. Flood, at Menlo Park, California. It was taken down many years ago.
Photo: Maude and her son, James Flood, (her son with James Flood after she married James after her sister's death) taken during court hearing in San Francisco.
Mother of three children, Mary Emma; James Flood (died young) and James Flood.
Her life was one of color, social activities and quiet philanthropies and in the days before her husband's death in 1926, dedicated to community service. Active member of San Francisco Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Maud was mistress of several mansions in California. Her husband died in 1926 and she gradually withdrew from public life. In 1939 she gave her mansion at 2222 Broadway, San Francisco, to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and moved to a two story penthouse at the famed Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. When Maud died at age ninety, she had occupied the penthouse on the seventh and eighth floors since 1939.
Maud's personal life was very complex in her young years. Maud married James Leary Flood, who had a daughter, Constance May Flood, with his first wife Rose Flood, who happened to be Maud's sister. After a while, Constance disappeared and was never seen again. His first wife, Rose, was a shapely burlesque queen, known as "Petey" who ran away from the Fritz family home. James was madly in love with her and when his father learned of his son's intention's he was enraged and attempted anything in his power to prevent it. James followed Rose and married her anyway. When James and Rose returned from Europe they stopped in Kansas City to visit her family, and invited her young sister, Maud, who was only eleven, to come and live with them at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
When Maud's sister, Rose Flood died following an operation, James' grief was overwhelming so he decided on an ocean voyage to the Orient to help him get over his loss of the woman for whom he had risked disinheritance when he married her. He took with him his little daughter Constance along with Maud and the brother, Walter Fritz. James and Rose had been married eleven years. Maud who had lived almost continuously with them since age eleven years old, was twenty two when her sister, Rose died at age thirty-six. A year after Rose's death Maud married James in a ceremony at her parents home in Kansas City. James was forty two and Maud was twenty three. This was the last San Franciscan's heard or saw Constance and Constance never saw her father again.
When James Flood died, Constance May Gavin, wife of John Gavin, filed a lawsuit as a rightful heir and daughter of James Flood. This became one of the most scandalous and watched trials in San Francisco and beyond. Maud fought hard to get rid of the lawsuit and succeeded the first time, however, The Supreme Court of California ordered another trial for Constance because of the scandalous conduct of the first trial Judge who ordered the jury to give a verdict in favor of the Flood heirs among other things.
When Constance was given a new court date, the Flood heirs offered to settle out of court with Constance for a million plus dollars.
Constance in frail health, accepted the settlement without court recognition as a daughter of James Flood. She agreed not to use the name of Flood.
So the mystery ends?
Photos: Mansion is called "Linden Towers" and built by Maud's father-in-law, James C. Flood, at Menlo Park, California. It was taken down many years ago.
Photo: Maude and her son, James Flood, (her son with James Flood after she married James after her sister's death) taken during court hearing in San Francisco.
Her life was one of color, social activities and quiet philanthropies and in the days before her husband's death in 1926, dedicated to community service. Active member of San Francisco Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Maud was mistress of several mansions in California. Her husband died in 1926 and she gradually withdrew from public life. In 1939 she gave her mansion at 2222 Broadway, San Francisco, to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and moved to a two story penthouse at the famed Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. When Maud died at age ninety, she had occupied the penthouse on the seventh and eighth floors since 1939.
Maud's personal life was very complex in her young years. Maud married James Leary Flood, who had a daughter, Constance May Flood, with his first wife Rose Flood, who happened to be Maud's sister. After a while, Constance disappeared and was never seen again. His first wife, Rose, was a shapely burlesque queen, known as "Petey" who ran away from the Fritz family home. James was madly in love with her and when his father learned of his son's intention's he was enraged and attempted anything in his power to prevent it. James followed Rose and married her anyway. When James and Rose returned from Europe they stopped in Kansas City to visit her family, and invited her young sister, Maud, who was only eleven, to come and live with them at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
When Maud's sister, Rose Flood died following an operation, James' grief was overwhelming so he decided on an ocean voyage to the Orient to help him get over his loss of the woman for whom he had risked disinheritance when he married her. He took with him his little daughter Constance along with Maud and the brother, Walter Fritz. James and Rose had been married eleven years. Maud who had lived almost continuously with them since age eleven years old, was twenty two when her sister, Rose died at age thirty-six. A year after Rose's death Maud married James in a ceremony at her parents home in Kansas City. James was forty two and Maud was twenty three. This was the last San Franciscan's heard or saw Constance and Constance never saw her father again.
When James Flood died, Constance May Gavin, wife of John Gavin, filed a lawsuit as a rightful heir and daughter of James Flood. This became one of the most scandalous and watched trials in San Francisco and beyond. Maud fought hard to get rid of the lawsuit and succeeded the first time, however, The Supreme Court of California ordered another trial for Constance because of the scandalous conduct of the first trial Judge who ordered the jury to give a verdict in favor of the Flood heirs among other things.
When Constance was given a new court date, the Flood heirs offered to settle out of court with Constance for a million plus dollars.
Constance in frail health, accepted the settlement without court recognition as a daughter of James Flood. She agreed not to use the name of Flood.
So the mystery ends?
Photos: Mansion is called "Linden Towers" and built by Maud's father-in-law, James C. Flood, at Menlo Park, California. It was taken down many years ago.
Photo: Maude and her son, James Flood, (her son with James Flood after she married James after her sister's death) taken during court hearing in San Francisco.
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