Julia, his wife was present at his death.

Michael worked as a stonecutter.

Story from Des Madden....

When Michael and Julia (Bird) died their sons decided to erect a big Cross. They bought the stone and started collecting money on a weekly basis from family members. Unfortunately they had a falling out over the money and they did no work on the stone, eventually they had a bigger row that split the family and spent the money on drink. It was the next generation of O'Connors, Stonecutters all, that finished the job. They decided that only direct male descendants of Michael and Julia(Bird)

would be buried under the O'Connor Cross. The Mary O'Connor who is buried under the Stone according to Kay O'Connor who remembers the funeral, was wife of Stephen who predeceased her by a few months in Nov 1939. Thomas, son of Michael and Julia (Bird) is not buried under the big

Cross. Kay O'Connor thinks he died in England. Thomas had a son called Matthew who married a Mary and they had a daughter called Maureen. Maureen emigrated to Australia and we think married an O'Connor (No relation) and they had a daughter called Caroline who is a famous film star. Do a google search and you will find her, she had a part in the film Moulin Rouge. In March 1940 Mary wife of Matthew died . She lived near Athlone and the story goes that her family buried her late one evening in the O'Connor plot in Creagh Cemetery, without ever telling the O'Connors.I can remember my father, with tears of laughter in his eyes, telling me that there was consternation among the O'Connors when they found out that she was buried in the family plot and that there were calls from some of them to have her dug up and moved. I am sure there must have been great fun in the Ballinasloe Pubs then. There is no inscription on the stone to verify her death but according to Kay O'Connor the story is true.