Washoe County NV Archives Obituaries.....O'Hara, Mary February 12, 1912
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Reno Evening Gazette February 13, 1912
Mrs. O’Hara Kills Self

Former Virginia City Woman Swallows Carbolic Acid at Home in This City

While suffering from a mental aberration last night Mrs. Mary O’Hara, a pioneer
of the Comstock and wife of Bernard O’Hara, who is now working in Olinghouse
canyon, drank some carbolic acid at her residence at 547 ½ Ralston street, and
before a physician who was summoned, arrived, she passed away.  She had retired
to her room early in the evening and it was some hours later that one of her
daughters entered the room and found her writhing in agony from the effects of
the poison.  The young woman summoned Dr. Pickard but when he arrived Mrs.
O’Hara was dead.

Mrs. O’Hara lived for many years in Virginia City and raised a family of ten
children.  She only moved to Reno with her husband and children a few years ago.
 She was an aged lady and recently at times was mentally deranged.  Her husband
is at present employed in Olinghouse canyon and she has one son, Bernard O’Hara,
Jr., mining in Mexico, her other children are Phillip, Thomas, Frances,
Gertrude, Josepha, Isabel, Margaret, Mrs. Alice O’Connor and Mrs. Kathryn
Jensen, now residing in Sparks.

Coroner Lee J. Davis this afternoon held an inquest over the remains of Mrs.
O’Hara and the verdict of the jury was that she died from the effects of
carbolic acid poisoning.

O’Hara-In Reno, Feb. 12th, 1912, Mary, beloved wife of Bernard O’Hara and mother
of Bernard, Jr., Philip, Thomas, Frances, Gertrude, Josepha, Isabella and
Margaret O’Hara, Mrs. Alice O’Connor and Mrs. Katherine Jensen; a native of
Ireland.

Remains at the parlors of the Perkins-Gulling Co.



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