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Note: According to John Lyle Rohrbough, Shannon's nephew, Kenneth Rohrbough was in the hospital in Ft. Smith, lying next to man named Shannon O'Neil, who had just passed the test to become a brakeman for the Frisco Line. That Shannon died, and Kenneth, when he got out, went to the railroad, said his name was Shannon O'Neil, and that he was ready to start as a brakeman.
In Mena, he met and married his first wife, Irene Myrick.
He was known as "Doc" to his family and friends, some say because he affected a bowler hat when he was a young man.
-- the following item from 100 years ago:
Kenneth O., the 18-year-old son of justice of the peace G.B. Rohrbaugh of Gregory, had three fingers of his right hand shot off, Monday afternoon, by the accidental discharge of one chamber of a double barrel shotgun, while he was loading the other chamber.
Jack says that after he retired, Shannon went fishing every day he could. Often Ida went with him. When he died there was a freezer full of the fish he had caught, and Jack and Mary Ruth took another year or so to eat it up.
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