BIO: At her funeral at Mount Olive, IL, it was said of Mary Harris ("Mother Jones"), "She had a small frail body but a great and indomnitable spirit. She was relatively uneducated, but she had a flaming tongue. She was poor, but she had a great blazing love for the poor, the down-trodden, and the oppressed. She was without influence but she had a mother's heart, great enough to embrace the weak and defenseless babes of the world." Mary was born in the city of Cork. Her people were poor. For generations they had fought for Ireland's freedom and many died in that struggle. Her parents, Richard Harris and Ellen Cotter married in Inchigeelagh, Co. Cork on 9 Feb 1834. At that time, per Mary, it was customary for weddings to take place in the bride's home parish. Inchigeelagh was a poor, small village consisting of about a dozen buildings; her father had kin in that parish, but he was from the city of Cork, about 30 miles to the east. Richard and Mary baptized their second-born child, Mary, at St. Mary's Cathedral in Cork on 01 Aug 1837. Mary's older brother, Richard (born 1835) was baptized in Inchigeelagh, but her siblings all began life in the city - Catherine in 1840, Ellen in 1845, and William in 1846. So for more than a generation, the Harrises and the Cotters moved between Cork and Inchigeelagh. Clearly, their roots ran deep in rural soil, but by the time Mary was born in 1837, the family ha! d moved to the city. The river Lee and a good carriage road connected Cork to Inchigeelagh. Her father was to emigrate to America, and as soon as he had become a citizen he sent for his family. Per Mary, 6,000 people, almost all Roman Catholic, had lived in the remote, 6 x 9 mile parish back in Co. Cork. Folk memory recalled great families like the O'Learys, who in better times built imposing castles. But ownership of most of the land had long since passed into English and Protestant hands. Those Cotters and Harrises of Inchigeelagh who retained enough land to be assessed held modest, mostly rented plots. In the U.S. Mary was to become a dressmaker and a teacher. She lived in places to include Monroe MI, Chicago, IL and Memphis, TN. She was married to George E. Jones, in Memphis, I believe, in 1861. George worked in a factory, Union Iron Works and Machine Shop, and was a member of the Iron Molders Union. Her nickname, "Mother Jones," was to become a "household word" in the United States. Mary was extremely outspoken on the rights of workers and poor people, and many fine biographies have been written about her including the recent "Mother Jones, The Most Dangerous Woman In America," by Elliott J. Gorn. Mary died in Prince George's Co., MD, at an advanced age. In the weeks prior, when Lillie May Burgess had attempted to pin a corsage on her, Mother Jones snapped, "Hell, I never have worn those and I don't want one now." She was delighted with her party but it was to be her last public appearance. She said, "I've done the best I could to make the world a better place for poor, hardworking people." On that occasion she recalled that one of her goals had been to help "defend miners against leaders who are thinking more of themselves than they are of my boys."