PUBLIC "-//Fairfax County Public Library//TEXT (US::ViF::vif00037::A Guide to the Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family)//EN" "vif00037.xml" 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 MSS 07-24 © 2024 Fairfax County Public Library. All rights reserved. Machine-readable finding aid created by Ross Landis, March 24, 2024 Description is in English A Guide to the Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family, 1915-1983 A Collection in The Fairfax County Public Library MSS 07-24

Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library Descriptive Summary Fairfax County Public Library The Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family, 1915-1983 MSS 07-24 .25 linear feet English 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. MacGill, Margaret M. (1919-2008) Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Use Restrictions

Consult repository for information

 Preferred Citation

Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family, MSS 07-24, Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library

 Acquisition Information

Gift of Mrs. Margaret MacGill on October 16, 2000 Additional photographs donated by her on December 15, 2004

 Processing Information

Chris Barbuschak, February 2017EAD generated by Ross Landis, 2024

 Historical and Biographical Information

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.

 Scope and Content

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.

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 Index Terms Herndon (Va.) Merrifield (Va.) MacGill, Margaret M. (1919-2008) O’Meara family Washington (D.C.) Container List Katie O'Meara and Millie O'Meara (taken at 528 Taylor Street, N.W. Washington D.C.), Undated Bessie O'Meara (taken at 528 Taylor Street, N.W. Washington D.C.), Undated Valenchia Costello O'Meara , Undated Albert Buckley O'Meara Home, Merrifield, Fairfax County, Va., Undated 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 Bessie Augusta O'Meara, Mildred Virginia O'Meara, Katie Eloda May O'Meara at family home in Merrifield, Fairfax County, Va., Undated Mildred Virginia O'Meara and Katie Eloda May O'Meara, Undated Bertha Mae (Beach) O'Meara at 528 Taylor Street, N.W. Washington D.C., c. 1959 Mildred Virginia O'Meara and Katie Eloda May O'Meara, Undated Katie Eloda May O'Meara, Undated Ernest Costello O'Meara and Bertha Mae Beach (wedding photo), 1915 June 30 Bertha Mae Beach, Undated Albert Buckley O'Meara family and Kearns family, Undated Town of Herndon before the fire [photo and negative], Undated Margaret Marie O'Meara, c. 1923 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 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 House at 126 F Street, N.W. Washington D.C., Undated Bertha Mae O'Meara and nurses of Margaret O'Meara, 1919 May Margaret O'Meara and nurse, 1919 Ernest Costello O'Meara, Bertha Mae O'Meara, and Margaret O'Meara in baby carriage at Court House in Washington D.C., 1919 May Miss Emma Ellmore, Mrs. Virginia (McFarland) Greear and Miss Elizabeth Ellmore (taken at the Ellmore's home at Herndon, Va.), 1983 July 26