1834 was when both Cushaw and Johannes Springfield died of certain natural causes, perhaps a combination of smallpox and pneumonia. Declining from eight children, only the two youngest girls, who were both identical twins, survived adulthood. Their names were Ashley Scorpio (who married Italian immigrant Federico Scorpio at 24) and slightly older Jessamine Webber (who married Norbert Webber at 21).
Black haired Jessamine and Ashley were about 16 when their parents died, so they worked at home doing the dishes, dusting up the rooms and sorting other stuff alone. Years later, Jessamine - already having a bad relationship with previous boyfriends - left the house to do cabaret at the Aztec Theatre, which clearly was intended to be a cabaret theatre before currently turning into a cinema. It was at the Aztec Theatre that she found her best boyfriend ever, in the form of puppeteer Norbert Webber. They've been in a lengthy yet good but imperfect relationship ever since, even though they didn't even have kids until much later, when they adopted a baby boy named Tristan at the beginning of the American civil war. Tristan Webber, as the adopted son became, was not as well known as the Italo American-Australian Scorpios, but nonetheless popular with fellow cartoonists.
With the help of herself, Ashley was a talented chef at Federico Scorpio's family run Italian restaurant Vesuvius. Sometimes, Federico was sick and not there. Although estranged at the most part, Federico and Ashley were actually happier together with five children in tow. The children were named Thelma (second youngest), Angelo (oldest), Isabella (middle), Rogelio (second oldest) and George. When they retired, the youngest son George Scorpio ran the Vesuvius restaurant for forty nine years (with small breaks) because he really loved the job.