Women of 'Ninety-Eight

by Mrs. Thomas Concannon

Some Other Sisters of ’Ninety-Eight

“O fair-haired Donough, dear little brother,

Well do I know what has taken you from me.”

—Lament for Fair-Haired Donough.

MARY MCCRACKEN is not the only sister whose name is coupled with her brother’s in “the glorious pride and sorrow” of ’Ninety-Eight. We have already, in the preceding memoirs, met other heroic sisters and we shall now give a somewhat further account of some of these.