She emigrated to the US in about 1871 and moved to New Haven. After her younger brother, James, moved to Omaha, Nebraska, she moved to Omaha in 1883. She was a housekeeper for Bishop O'Conner on 9th and Howard, and later joined the Franciscan Order in 1893. She remained in the Order and lived in various cities, and in buried at the point in the same plot as other sisters; they have a granite shaft with their names and years that they died.