Jennie Belle McConnell 1876 - 1942 

BIRTH NAME: Jennie Belle McConnell


BIRTH:      1876 07 Newark, Ohio
FATHER:     James McConnell b.1852 02 New York
MOTHER:     Mary A Byrnes   b.1854 08 Missouri

SIBLINGS:   James B McConnell b.1878 Newark, Ohio
            Annie McConnell   b.1883 Newark, Ohio
           
MARRIAGE:   1905 Newark, Ohio [newspaper item]
SPOUSE:     Albert Dorrington O'Neill

CHILDREN:   Bernard Dorrington O'Neill

VOCATION:   Homemaker
MILITARY:   none
RELIGION:   Roman Catholic ?
DEATH:      1942 11 16 Dtroit, MI 
            Interred Mt Calvary Cemetery, Newark, OH
From newspaper items it appears that Jennie McConnell was involved in the Newark Social Scene. One of the clippings in November 1902 tells us her future husband Albert O'Neill attended a card party at her home. [Progressive pedro was a card game popular in the era.] Another clipping announces their marriage. She was twenty-nine years old when they married.
Jennie McConnell O'Neill - 1940 Detroit

   About Jennie's Life



Author notes: Here are a few of the many newspaper clippings about Jennie McConnel fom the Newark Advocate. Many more are on the McConnell Clippings page you can access from the lineage chart page.



Author notes: Albert O'Neill fought in the 1898 US war against Spain for the liberation of Cuba. When he returned to Newark he became involved in the veterans organization. After their marriage, Jennie joined the Auxillary and actively participated in the organization. She served as an officer in several roles over the years.

   About Jennie's Life

Albert passed away in 1938. Jennie became ill and left their home on Hudson Avenue in Newark to move in with her son Bernard and daughter-in-law in Detroit. She was with them when her grandson Mike [Albert Michael O'Neill] was a baby. She lived long enough to see her granddaughter Kathy [Kathleen O'Neill (Hepburn)] born in November 1941, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. She died in 1942 in Detroit.



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