A Guide to the Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family, 1915-1983
Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family
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The Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family,
1915-1983
Extent
.25 linear feet
Creator
MacGill, Margaret M. (1919-2008)
Language
English
Abstract
The Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family consists of .25 linear feet and spans the years 1915-1983
and contains photographs and a negative.
Margaret M. O’Meara was born on March 5, 1919 in Washington D.C. to Ernest C. and Bertha M. Beach O’Meara. She grew up at
528 Taylor Street, NW, however the O’Meara and Beach families had previously lived in Fairfax County, Virginia for three generations.
She graduated from Roosevelt High School and the Washington School for Secretaries and began a life-long career as a military
secretary. Margaret married Leon H. “Mac” MacGill on March 4, 1950 in Washington D.C. and the couple resided in Arlington,
Virginia. An avid genealogist, Margaret published two books on her family’s history, “The Beach family of Virginia and the
Voorhees family of New York and Virginia” in 1996 and “The O'Meara family of Virginia and the Lynch family of Maryland and
Virginia: including collateral lines of Gossom and Maddox” in 1997. She died in Arlington on February 8, 2008.
The Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family consists of .25 linear feet and spans the years 1915-1983
and contains photographs and a negative. Subjects include the O’Meara family, the O’Meara family household in Merrifield,
Fairfax County, Va., and scenes from Herndon, Va. and Washington D.C.
Box 1 Folder 4:
Albert Buckley O'Meara Home, Merrifield, Fairfax County, Va.,
Undated
Box 1 Folder 5:
Albert Buckley O'Meara, Catharine Amanda (Kerns) O'Meara, Bessie Augusta O'Meara, William Alfonso O'Meara, Matrona Columbia
O'Meara, Annie Elizabeth O'Meara, and Mildred Virginia O'Meara,
Undated
Box 1 Folder 6:
Bessie Augusta O'Meara, Mildred Virginia O'Meara, Katie Eloda May O'Meara at family home in Merrifield, Fairfax County, Va.,
Undated
Box 1 Folder 7:
Mildred Virginia O'Meara and Katie Eloda May O'Meara,
Undated
Box 1 Folder 8:
Bertha Mae (Beach) O'Meara at 528 Taylor Street, N.W. Washington D.C.,
c. 1959
Box 1 Folder 9:
Mildred Virginia O'Meara and Katie Eloda May O'Meara,
Undated
Box 1 Folder 10:
Katie Eloda May O'Meara,
Undated
Box 1 Folder 11:
Ernest Costello O'Meara and Bertha Mae Beach (wedding photo),
1915 June 30
Box 1 Folder 12:
Bertha Mae Beach,
Undated
Box 1 Folder 13:
Albert Buckley O'Meara family and Kearns family,
Undated
Box 1 Folder 14:
Town of Herndon before the fire [photo and negative],
Undated
Box 1 Folder 15:
Margaret Marie O'Meara,
c. 1923
Box 1 Folder 16:
Bertha Mae (Beach) O'Meara, Leola Turner, Ernest Costello O'Meara (taken in backyard at 528 Taylor Street, N.W. Washington
D.C.),
c. 1933
Box 1 Folder 17:
Margaret O'Meara and Bertha Mae (Beach) O'Meara marching in Fourth of July parade, corner of New Hampshire Avenue and Taylor
Street, N.W. Washington D.C.,
c. 1923
Box 1 Folder 18:
House at 126 F Street, N.W. Washington D.C.,
Undated
Box 1 Folder 19:
Bertha Mae O'Meara and nurses of Margaret O'Meara,
1919 May
Box 1 Folder 20:
Margaret O'Meara and nurse,
1919
Box 1 Folder 21:
Ernest Costello O'Meara, Bertha Mae O'Meara, and Margaret O'Meara in baby carriage at Court House in Washington D.C.,
1919 May
Box 1 Folder 22:
Miss Emma Ellmore, Mrs. Virginia (McFarland) Greear and Miss Elizabeth Ellmore (taken at the Ellmore's home at Herndon, Va.),
1983 July 26