-----Original Message----- From: Carolyn Feroben <[email protected]> >Andy, for your obit collection of the Christy Minstrels I found this in >the Mariposa County Gazette, 1864: > >E P Christy, the "colored minstrel" of Christy's Minstrels, New York, >jumped out of his house in that city on May 9th, fell on his head and >was killed. He had been a little crazy for some time. He died worth >$200,000. Ouch! I would be curious to see how that fit in with the draft riots than occured in NY right around then, esp. with the likliehood that Christy was a southern sympathizer. I would also be interested to see when he went back to New York. I know that after 5 years, the two major minstrel troupes in San Francisco merged; perhaps his departure was the beginning of this.