Beckham County, OK - Obits: Bridget Cecelia O'Hara, 1927 
Thursday, 11 Sep 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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O'HARA, BRIDGET CECELIA
(3 Mar 1927, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Bridget Cecelia Roach was born in County Waxford, Ireland, in May 1841; 
died at Elk City, Oklahoma, February 26, 1927.
She came to this country as a small child.  Was married in 1858 to 
John O'Hara, a soap maker of Quebec, Canada, where they made their home 
for a short time.  In 1859 they moved to Woodburn, Iowa, and underwent 
the hardships and sufferings as well as the thrills and joys of pioneer 
settlers, often being compelled to load the family and a few provisions 
in a wagon and flee from hostile Indians.  They settled at Chamoise, Mo., 
where seven years later her husband died, leaving to her care eleven 
children, the youngest having been born after her husband's death.
Some years later the family moved to Colorado, remaining about a year, 
after which they went to Spearville, Kansas, where they made their home 
until 1911, at which time they came to Mangum, Okla.  From this time, the 
family being broken up, she and her grand-daughter, Bernice (Mrs. N. E. 
O'Brien) made their home with the younger daughter, Anna.
Again in 1920 they moved to Kansas, coming to Elk City in June 1922, that 
she might be near her sons, Pete, John and Mike, who live near this place.
She was a good and faithful mother, her two ambitions in life being to serve 
her Creator and her children.  Through the strain of the early hardships and 
the care of a large family, her health became broken and for the past 
seventeen years she has been practically helpless.  All the comforts and 
solace that a loving daughter could devise were hers, but she reached the 
end of her journey at 6:18 a.m.

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