New Info on O'Hagan Family Members

I heard from cousin Beverly Rogers McMahan asking how Agnes O'Hagan died as she was quite young which drove me to do some research and update this blog.

Agnes was 20 years old when she died on Sept. 30, 1918. The story I have heard is that she died of a shotgun wound. There were no witnesses but they believe that she was throwing garbage down the hill toward Egan's Creek when she saw a rattlesnake and then went to the house for a shotgun to kill it. They found her body on the ground with the shotgun nearby and one of her shoes off her foot with the heel broken off. They came pretty quickly when they hear the gunshot.

I also looked some other members of the family:

William died on June 7, 1915 of lockjaw. He was 14 years old.

Edith was admitted to the Florida Mental Hospital at Chattahoochee, FL between 1920 and 1930. Census records for 1920 list Edith as part of my grandmother Irene and her husband James Ball's household along with her brother Joe O'Hagan. She is listed in the 1930, 1940 and 1945 Census at Chattahoochee. She died there on Sep. 27, 1982, and I believe she is buried there. Cousin Jimmy said that Papa visited Edith and would come back feeling very sad and that Papa wanted her to be buried next to her twin brother William in the family plot at Bosque Bello Cemetary in Fernandina.

I thought John J. O'Hagan, Papa's brother drowned at Sullivan's Island, but I found that he actually drowned at Georgetown in 1909:

O’Hagan, John J. who for 30 years was lighthouse keeper for Charleston Harbor fell into the water at Sullivan’s Island and drowned. Newberry (SC) Observer 10/1/1909, page 1.

Robert Edward O'Hagan

From Gail O'Hagan Saur:

Just thought I'd pass on a bit of humor about my dad. When he was born he was to be named Thomas John. His father's name was Robert Edward. The hospital personnel put all the names on his birth certificate. Daddy's legal name was Thomas John Robert Edward O'Hagan. Mother said he took the name Joseph as his conformation name so he became Thomas John Robert Edward Joseph O'Hagan. I remember smiling whenever I was asked as a child to fill in the father's full name.....there was never enough room to write it!