Jennie and her surviving children—except John, who never talked about the night of the fire except to say that the family should accept it and get on with their lives[8]—continued to seek answers to their questions about the missing children's fate. After George's death, Jennie stayed in the family home, putting up fencing around it and adding additional rooms. For the rest of her life, she wore black in mourning and tended the garden at the site of the former house.