at last , katherine had to be sedated for the move to the city , and as stated earlier , she never recovered from the shock , and soon went insane , wandering around the first street gardens , talking all the time to darcy , and searching also for her mother , marguerite , and endlessly turning out the contents of drawers to find things which she claimed to have lost mary beth tolerated her , and was heard to say once , much to the shock of the doctor in attendance , that she was happy to do what she could for her mother , but she did not find the woman or her plight 'particularly interesting , ' and she wished there was some drug they could give the woman to quiet her down julien was present at the time , and naturally found this very funny and went into one of his disconcerting riffs of laughter he was understanding of the doctor 's shock , however , and explained to him that the great virtue of mary beth was that she always told the truth , no matter what the consequences if they did give katherine 'some drug , ' we know nothing of it she began to wander the streets around 1898 , and a young mulatto servant was hired simply to follow her around she died in bed at first street , in a rear bedroom , in 1905 , on the night of january 2 , to be exact , and to the best of our knowledge there was no storm to mark her death , and no unusual event of any kind she had been in a coma for days , according to the servants , and mary beth and julien were at her side when she died on january 15 , 1899 , in an enormous wedding held at st alphonsus church , mary beth married daniel mcintyre it is interesting to note that up until this time the family had worshiped at the notre dame church ( the french church of the tn-church parish ) , but for the wedding it chose the irish church , and thereafter went to all services at st alphonsus daniel seems to have been on very friendly terms with the irish-american priests of the parish , and to have been lavish in his support of the parish he also had a cousin in the irish-american sisters of mercy who taught at the local school it seems safe therefore to assume that the change to the irish church was daniel 's idea and it is also safe to assume that mary beth was almost indifferent to the matter , though she did go to church often with her children and great-nieces and nephews , though what she believed about it one can not say juhen never went to church , except for the customary weddings , funerals , and christenings he also seems to have preferred st alphonsus to the humbler french church of notre dame the wedding of daniel and mary beth was , as already mentioned , an enormous affair a reception of dazzling proportions was held at the first street house , with cousins coming from as far away as new york daniel 's family , though much much smaller than the mayfair family , was also in attendance , and by all reports the couple were deeply in love and deeply happy , and the dancing and singing went on late into the night the couple went to new york for a honeymoon trip , and from there to europe , where they remained for four months , cutting short their journey in may because mary beth was already expecting a child indeed , carlotta mayfair was born seven and one-half months after her parents ' marriage , on september 1 , 1899 .