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Hi Tom,
From my notes:
Date of death: April 16, 1906
Full name of deceased: Tracy, Mary A.
Sex: Female
Color: White
Marital status: Married
Age: 55 years-11 months-15 days
Place of death: Morton
Place of birth: Ireland
Disease or cause of death: [Tuberculosis] of lungs
Occupation: Retired
Full name/birth place of parents: James O'Hara/Ireland--Unknown/Ireland
Name/address of ateending physician: F.W. Penhall, M.D./Morton, Minnesota
When registered: April 20, 1906
Death Records, Clerk of Court, Renville County Courthouse, Olivia, Minnesota, book C, page 127, line 41; transcribed by Joe Ehleringer, 1986.
These facts may also be verified through Mary's obituary, which appeared in the Morton Enterprise (Morton, Renville, Minnesota), April 20, 1906, page 6, column 1; notice regarding will, Ibid., May 18, 1906, page 6, column 2; and her gravestone, Calvary Cemetery, Morton.
Another point. These sources indicate Mary was born May 1, 1850, which is probably off the mark. A couple of years ago, the Limerick Regional Archives of the Irish Family History Foundation (http://www.irishroots.net) researched the O'Hara family for me. Early church records are spotty, but they apparently found Mary's baptism:
"Mary, daughter of James O'Hara and Bridget Scanlan, was baptised in Knockaderry on the 4th of June 1848. Her Godparents were John Regan and Hanorah McCarthy.
"I also traced the baptism of a Margaret O'Hara in Kilmeedy on the 6th of September 1838. However, her parents were James O'Hara and Margaret--not Bridget--Scanlan. However, it is possible that the Margaret is an error. This child's Godmother was a Mary McCarthy. Perhaps, there was a connection between your ancestor's family and a McCarthy family.
"These two children were the only two recorded children with an O'Hara father and a Scanlan mother baptised in any of the 64 parishes in Co. Limerick prior to 1900...
"We then looked at the major land survey of the last century, known after its author as 'Griffith's Valuation'...which belongs in the years immediately after 1850...However, there are many households which involved more than one family and, indeed, generation, yet only one name is given as the head of the household, so this is a shortcoming. The only household in Co. Limerick at that time headed by a James O'Hara was in Kileedy South..."
Margaret Duffy, Researcher, Limerick Regional Archives to Joe Ehleringer, letter dated February 17, 1998. [The parish of Knockaderry is just east of Newcastle; Kileedy, a little south of Newcastle.]
Don't hestitate to contact me for other O'Hara details,
Joe
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