Edward Joseph O'Brien
1886 - 1910 (24 years)-
Name Edward Joseph O'Brien Born 1886 Topsail, C.B., Newfoundland, Canada 
Gender Male Died 17 May 1910 Topsail, C.B., Newfoundland, Canada Person ID I5785 OGrady Family Tree Last Modified 23 Apr 2021
Father Edward Thomas O'Brien, b. 1851, Topsail, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, CA , d. 20 Jul 1895, Topsail, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, CA (Age 44 years) Relationship Birth Mother Mary Stapleton, b. 15 May 1858, Horse Cove (St. Thomas) Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Canada , d. 9 Feb 1947, Topsail, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, CA (Age 88 years) Relationship Birth Married 11 Jan 1879 Holy Rosary Parish, Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, Canada Notes - Marriage announcement in Telegram.
January 17, 1879 (Friday) Married At Portugal Cove, on Sunday last, by the Very Rev.
Archdeacon O'CONNOR, P.P., V.G., Mr. EDWARD BRINE, of Topsail, to MARY, eldest
daughter of Mr. THOMAS Stapleton, of Horse Cove.
Children Jon T, Mary Peter , Peter J and Leonard died in infancy.
Edward was killed by being kicked by his a horse. He was only 44 years old, and he left Mary
his wife with a large family of 6 including my grandmother and her twin brother Andrew who
were only four months old at the time of his death.
Story in the Evening Telegram and Newfoundland Hearld in 1895. This was recently
printed (Aug. 15, 2008) in the Shoreline local Newspaper of CBS.
Family ID F2111 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Marriage announcement in Telegram.
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Notes - Why was this young man held in such great
esteem? Obituary for Edward Joseph O'Brien
(1886 -1910) Oh, death, with your icy hand
and fatal grasp, Your unflinching summons has
come at last; You have bade him follow by your
stern command, To far brighter realms in that
heavenly land.
At Topsail on Thursday, 19 inst. all that was mortal of Edward Joseph O'Brien
was conveyed to the R.C. churchyard for interment. His funeral was largely
attended by mourners of every denomination, t o show their love and respect
for the youthful miner who received his death summons while working in the
submarine mines on bell Island. At 2:30 the S.S. Euphrates arrived with
Manager McLean, and al l the foremen of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal
Co. to take a last farewell of one who through his kind and generous ways,
had won the esteem of his fellow workmen and forced an entrance to the
roughe st ear. While working in the mines he contracted a heavy cold which
developed into pneumonia. He was attended by Dr's. Carnochan, Chaplin
and Chisholm, who did all available for him, but despite the ir utmost skill he
passed peacefully away on Tuesday, 17th inst. in the prime of life at the age
of twenty four. RIP
Thou son of faith, your form is chilled, Your gentle heart-beat forever
stilled; How soon to fill a silent grave, A prayer from the faithful is all I crave. - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/163258751/edward-j.-o'brien
- Why was this young man held in such great