Buried at sea

O'DONNELL
JOHN O'DONNELL
BORN IN NEWPORT, IRELAND - 1778
DIED IN CLEVELAND - 1874
HIS WIFE
MARY MULLEN
BURIED AT SEA
1884 CHARLES R O'DONNELL D.D.S. 1976

What an interesting stone. One in seeing a stone, must consider that, those memorialised are not necessarily there, nor is the stone necessarily contemporary to an internment.

This stone tells of three people; one explicitly never reached Ohio. So many people died in the crossing to America. Her, and notice her maiden name is used, husband died a very old man. The third person never saw the first two. He, or someone, thought it proper to remember the long departed. This speaks fondly on familial unity.

Newport is in County Mayo. It is a village on the main island by Clew Bay. Nearby Achill Island, is where many early Cleveland Irish originated from, as other spots in the far west of Ireland. These people were quite poor, even for the Irish. John came to Cleveland in 1836 with eight children. We see, one descendent became a doctor of dentistry.