Rev. Dr. Reese Fell Alsop

• Reese's birth, photograph, and death information are available at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59827715/reese-fell-alsop
• Reese's photograph is used courtesy of Tom Nichols, Find A Grace ID 48016720.

------------------------------------------ Mary O'Hara Alsop was born July 10, 1885 in Cape May Point, New Jersey, the third child of Reverend Dr. Reese Fell Alsop and Mary Lee Spring. O'Hara, who was named after her maternal grandmother, Mary O'Hara Spring (née Denny), grew up in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Her siblings included an older sister, the writer Gulielma ( Elma ) Fell; an older brother, Reese; and a younger sister, Elizabeth ( Bess ). She was a descendant of William Penn. She married her third cousin, Kent Kane Parrot, in 1905 against her father's wishes. They had a daughter, O'Hara Parrot, born in 1908, who died of skin cancer in her early teens, and a son, Kay (Ken) Parrot (born in 1910).