Rose, Patrick and Rachel's last child, migrated to the United States at age eighteen. She worked as a laundress and a seamstress in the Irish slums of New York. She married a laborer named Mark O'Dore. When the Civil War broke out Mark joined to earn money. He got more than he bargained for out of the army. At the first battle of Bull Run he was shot in the leg. When the doctors finally got to it the only thing they could do was amputate. The doctors were very skilled and the amputation took less than two minutes. They dipped the stump in hot pitch to cauterize the wound. Luckily the shock of the amputation, which was done without anesthetic, did not kill Mark nor did he develop an infection afterwards. Mark spent the rest of his life tending bar in the Five Points section of New York. All told Mark and Rose had four children, Matthew, Heather, Samuel, and a female child that was stillborn.

For the full story of Rose MacGilligan O'Dore and her family, written by ESU student Matt Black, follow this link.