Nellie Mary (Hanrahan) Sargent, 1886-1936
wife of Percy A. Sargent
daughter of John, The Major, Hanrahan and Elizabeth (Buckley) Hanrahan
mother of Elizabeth (Sargent) Phillips and grandmother of Kathleen
grave coordinates: 37 40 25.6 N  122 26 45.4 W
cemetery section: V, row 61, grave 92

Nellie, or Nell, was born Ellie Hanrahan Feb. 25, 1886 in  Kilbaha South, Moyvane,
County Kerry, Ireland and died on Feb. 2, 1936, age 49, in San Francisco.

Nellie as listed as 14-year-old Ellie Hanrahan in the 1901 Irish Census.  She was
living in her parents' home in Kilbaha South, County Kerry, Ireland.

She immigrated via Ellis Island arriving on the passenger ship Celtic on September 29,
1906.  Her first residence was in New York City where she worked as a nurse in Bellevue
Hospital for one year. She then went to San Francisco to join Irish relatives and friends
there.  Nellie worked as a nurse in the Hahnemann Hospital for several years, where
she met her future husband, Percy A. Sargent.  In the US Census for San Francisco
"Nelly Hanrahan" was listed as a nurse at the Hahnemann Hospital.  

By the time of the 1920 census Percy and Nellie were married and had a 9-month old son
and were living at 2257 Steiner St., San Francisco.  In the 1930 US census Percy and
Nellie were listed as living at 833 Baker St. in San Francisco and had listed as children:
Benjamin (10), Elizabeth (8), John (6), Alice (5) and Nellie [Theresa] (2).

Kathleen standing by the headstone of Nellie and Percy Sargent.

Getting GPS measurement.

A satellite view of of part of section V with the location of the grave of Percy and Nellie
marked with the blue square.  Their grave is in the fifth row down from the roadway,
about 49 ft south, and about 58 ft northeast of the tree to the south.  That row is
number 61 in section V in the numbering system of the cemetery.