The Boston Globe, April 9th, 1995
NORWELL -- On a shelf in the living room at 96 Jacobs Lane sits an urn, containing Laura Jacobs' ashes. It was placed there by Elizabeth Deane, the live-in caretaker and housekeeper who cooked meals, ran errands and bathed Jacobs before her death in November 1991. The room is adorned with photographs of Jacobs, the town's last descendant of a prominent family. Her husband, Loring Jacobs, who ran a surveying business that bore his name, died in 1973. Laura Jacobs died of natural causes after lapsing into a coma. In her final will, written in 1990, Jacobs left her estate -- 9 acres of prime prop...
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