Warren and Carol O'Rourke's Old Photos (1880-2007)
Warren and Carol O'Rourke's Old Photos (1880-2007)
These photos are arranged in roughly chronological order beginning with 1880. Besides Carol and Warren and their immediate family, there are various ancestors and relatives from both WFO's family and Carol's family. There is a place at the bottom of each page where you can comment on the photo being displayed. Please feel free to post your comments. Also note that there is a link to other albums near the bottom of the page where you click on the red album name to see a different album.
Thomas Francis Meagher O'Rourke (c. 1900)
Thomas Francis Meagher O'Rourke (c. 1900) 
 
This guy was Warren's great-grandfather. He was a Confederate soldier and later became a wealthy Mobile businessman. (Meagher is pronounced MARR. There were thousands of Irishmen named after Thomas Francis Meagher who, among many other things, was the original colonel of the 69th New York Infantry, the famous "Fighting 69th." Meagher was a very real hero to Irish immigrants in the United States. How else would a Confederate from Alabama be named for a guy who lived in New York?) Please note that this photo was made when T.F. was 49 years old! Like my father D.F., old T.F. was always very boyish in appearance.