Husband: Luke O'BRIEN (1)
Birthdate: 13 Aug. 1827 (2)
Birthplace: St. Mary Parish, LA (2)
Death date: 28 Feb. 1907 (2)
Place of death: Beaumont, Jefferson Co., TX (2)
Father: George O'BRIEN (1)
Mother: Eleanor MERRIMAN (1)

Marriage date: 8 June 1852 (3)
Marriage place: Galveston, Galveston Co., TX (3)

Wife: Mary Gertrude BOTTS (4)
Birthdate: 6 Oct. 1835 (5)
Birthplace: Wilcox Co., AL (5)
Death date: 15 Jan. 1887 (5)
Place of death: Lampasas Co., TX (5)
Father: George Washington BOTTS (6)
Mother: Mary Elizabeth (SCULL) PATTON (6)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Elizabeth Eleanor O'BRIEN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 22 Apr. 1853 (7)
Birthplace: TX
Death date: 2 May 1880 (7)
Place of death: Pt. Bolivar, Galveston Co., TX (7)
Marriage date: unknown (8)
Marriage place: unknown (8)
Spouse's name: Mark Stewart GRISSOM

Child No. 2: Mary Cornelia O'BRIEN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 29 Mar. 1855 (9)
Birthplace: Galveston Co., TX (9)
Death date: 6 Jan. 1948 (9)
Place of death: Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA (9)
Marriage date: 6 Jan. 1874 (10)
Marriage place: Galveston, Galveston Co., TX (10)
Spouse's name: Felix Newman SHAW (10)

Child No. 3: Robert Cass O'BRIEN (11)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 21 Sept. 1857 (11)
Birthplace: TX (11)
Death date: 22 June 1858 (11)
Place of death: TX (11)
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Child No. 4: Emmet Smith O'BRIEN (11)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 21 Sept. 1858 (11)
Birthplace: TX (11)
Death date: 30 Sept. 1858 (11)
Place of death: TX (11)
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Child No. 5: Camilla Gertrude O'BRIEN
Sex:
Birthdate: 27 Apr. 1860 (12)
Birthplace: TX
Death date: 21 July 1941 (12)
Place of death: Beaumont, Jefferson Co., TX (12)
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: Mark Stewart GRISSOM

Child No. 6: Charles Luke O'BRIEN (13)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1 Sept. 1862 (11)
Birthplace: TX
Death date: 28 Feb. 1941 (11)
Place of death: Galveston, Galveston Co., TX (11)
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: Olive DUNBAR (11)

Child No. 7: Corine O'BRIEN (11)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 13 Dec. 1865 (11)
Birthplace: TX (11)
Death date: 17 Dec. 1865 (11)
Place of death: TX (11)
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Child No. 8: Alice "Alee" Olivia O'BRIEN (14)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 2 Sept. 1874 (14)
Birthplace: TX (11)
Death date: 13 May 1956 (14)
Place of death: Beaumont, Jefferson Co., TX (14)
Marriage date: 28 Dec. 1898 (15)
Marriage place: Temple, Bell Co., TX (15)
Spouse's name: James Monroe GOBER, MD (15)
 
 
Documentation:
(1) Luke is listed in the 1850 US Census with his father, Galveston Co., TX. He is also listed in his mother's succession record, dated 1832, LA;
(2) Luke O'Brien's b. & d. dates are on his headstone, Magnolia Cem., Beaumont, Jefferson Co., TX, Lot 26, Sec. "E";
(3) Courthouse, Galveston Co., TX, Mar. Book "B"; Pg. 44; No. 1735;
(4) Mary G. Botts is listed in the 1850 Cen., in the household of her uncle, William Drue Scull, Liberty Co., TX. Her parents died in New Orleans, 1839, and she moved to TX from her home in Wilcox Co., AL;
(5) Mary's b. & d. are recorded on her headstone, Bend Cem., Lampasas Co., TX;
(6) Mary is listed in her grandmother's (Dorcas Grissett Scull) will, along with her brothers, as being Dorcas' grandchildren;
(7) Elizabeth O'Brien's b. & d. dates are recorded on her headstone, Patton Cem., Patton Beach, Pt. Bolivar, Galveston Co., TX;
(8) Marriage rec. believed to be in Galveston, TX, but as yet I have not been back there to obtain copy;
(9) Mary C. Shaw's b. & d. dates are listed in her death cert., recorded Los Angeles Co., CA and on her headstone, Magnolia Cem., Beaumont, Jefferson Co., TX;
(10) Mar. rec. for Mary C. & Felix N. Shaw, Galveston Co. Mar. Book "E"; Pg. 416; No. 824;
(11) Mary C. (O'Brien) Shaw's personal papers;
(12) Camilla G. O'Brien's b. & d. dates are Mary C. Shaw's notes. She is buried along with Mark S. Grissom in the Shaw plot, Magnolia Cem., Beaumont, Jefferson Co., TX. Cammie O'Brien mar. her sister Elizabeth's husband, after Elizabeth died. Cammie & Mark had no children, but raised Elizabeth's only child, Gertrude Grissom.
(13) Charles's b. & d. dates are in Mary C. Shaw's papers, presumably he was buried in Galveston;
(14) Alee's b. & d. dates are on her headstone, Magnolia Cem., Beaumont, Jefferson Co., TX, where she is buried next to her husband.;
(15) Alee's marriage info. from IGI, no official document yet.