Thomas Vincent O’Hara was born in Virginia City, Nevada, April 19, 1896. When about fifteen years old he moved to Carson City, and took up his residence with his aunt, Miss B. Smith. He had lost his parents during his childhood. Tom attended school in Carson for several years, after which he turned to ranching. He was employed on various Eagle Valley ranches before taking a steady position with Henry Bath. During these years the good natured Tom made friends with the whole surrounding country. When he bade them goodbye to enter the Service, a great crowd waved a farewell from the station platform. Tom O’Hara and his old friend, John Newman, were the first boys to go from Ormsby County to Camp Lewis, Washington. They entrained on September 6th, 1917. From that time on they were together continually, both serving in Company L, 362d Infantry, of the 91st Division.

They landed in France together in July, 1918, and went into action at the same time, September 26th, 1918. And the long, winding trail which they had entered upon together and which they had followed shoulder to shoulder, ended for them on the same day and in the same locality; John fell on the morning of September 29th under shell fire; Tom laid down his life the same afternoon when a German bullet struck him. Perhaps these two Carson City boys who left their homes with a smile that day in September, 1917, and whose bodies lay in soldiers’ graves a year later, are still faring on together in a happier land—at any rate, their names will live on in the roll of Nevada’s lost heroes as long as Nevada boys are born and reared with love of country in their hearts and the stern resolve to protect her no matter where the long trail may lead.

Tom leaves five sisters: Mrs. Katherine Jensen, Mrs. J. H. O’Conner, and the Misses Frances, Isabelle, and Olympia O’Hara, all of San Francisco, California, and his aunt, Miss B. Smith, Carson City, Nevada.