David O'Connell may have been the son of John and Bridget Connell of Ireland. He was the husband of Mary Ryan O'Connell and the father of Patrick, John, Catherine, David Francis and James.
He was born about 1848 in Doon Ireland. David immigrated to the US about 1870. It was in the US, in NJ, that he met and married his bride, Mary Ryan, a New Jersey girl. They married in Hibernia in 1873 and raised their family in Hibernia. David worked in nearby iron ore mines as a miner.
David O'Connell died in Hibernia in 1904 and is buried in St. Patrick's cemetery in Rockaway, NJ.
with gratitude to David O'Connell: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=nelle809&id=I00337
The death announcement of David O'Connell appears on pg. 5, 3rd column: http://test.rtlibrary.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/1904/1904-10-07.pdf
With gratitude to Dana: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=o%27connell&GSfn=david&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1904&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=34088468&df=all&
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