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On a gravestone in Queens, New York is recorded the death of Denis O'Donovan Rossa who died on 13th Oct 1881 aged 90 years. His wife was Mary who died on 7 May 1888 aged 88 years.
Mary was a daughter of John O'Brien; see New York Deaths & Burials
From Jereemiah O'Donovan Rossa'a "Recollections" we quote "Another strange meeting at a funeral came to my notice here in New York one time. Dr. Hamilton Williams, of Dungarvan, had me to stand godfather for a child of his. The child died, and I went to the funeral to Calvary cemetery. Dr. Williams was not long in America at the time. It was the first death in his family, and the child was buried in the plot belonging to its mother's sister. The next plot to the right hand side of it was one on which a tombstone was erected, on which was engraven, " Sacred to the memory of Denis O'Donovan-Rossa, of Ross Carberry, aged ninety years."
There is my godchild, belonging to Waterford, lying side by side with my grand-uncle's son, belonging to Cork".
We can conclude from the gravestone details coupled with Jeremiah's "Recollections" that this Denis was a son of one of the family of Donnacha Mór O'Donovan Rossa as on the page linked to his name here. However, at this time we don't know which son.
Denis and Mary had at least one child:-
Julia (born 1833 in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork). She died in 1873 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York.
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