(died May 31, 1924)

Mrs. Mary O’Driscoll, widow of the late Timothy O’Driscoll of Norwood, died Saturday afternoon at the City Orphanage and Home for the Aged at Ogdensburg.

Mrs. O’Driscoll was born in Ireland and spent practically her whole life in Norwood, coming to this country when a child. She is survived by one son, Timothy, of Ogdensburg. The body was sent to the home of her niece, Mrs. Timothy Donovan of Brasher Falls Sunday afternoon and the funeral was held at St. Patrick’s Church in that village Tuesday morning with interment in the Brasher Falls cemetery.

Mrs. O’Driscoll is the last member of a fine Irish family which settled in early life in the town of Potsdam.

(From the Friday, June 6, 1924 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder, page 3, courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ news.nnyln.net).