Mary Ann O'gara (1856 - 1896)

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Capt. Larry Phillips

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This photo was taken in the mid 1890's as a tin type. I'm in possession of this and three other tin types of her sons, John, Maurice and Robert as handed down to me from Mary's youngest child, Rose May (O'Gara) Carey, my maternal Grandmother who raised me and had been orphaned in 1896 at the age of 8.

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In 1856, in the year that Mary Ann O'gara was born, on May 21st, Lawrence Kansas was ransacked and burned by pro-slavery forces. Called the "Sacking of Lawrence", it was part of the "Bleeding Kansas" war between pro-slavery and antislavery settlers.

In 1860, she was only 4 years old when on December 20th, South Carolina seceded from the United States - the first state to do so. At the time, there were about 4 million people enslaved in the American South.

In 1870, by the time she was merely 14 years old, on October 6th, Rome became the capital of the unified states of the Italian Peninsula - the newly created Kingdom of Italy.

In 1883, Mary was 27 years old when on May 24th, the Brooklyn Bridge - one of the oldest bridges in the US - was opened to traffic. Bridge construction began in 1869 and took 14 years to complete.

In 1896, in the year of Mary Ann O'gara's passing, on May 18th, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. By a vote of 7 to 1, the Court upheld state racial segregation laws, introducing the idea of "separate but equal" facilities for races.