Patrick J. Murphy death certificate — d. 23 April 1912, 4:30 PM, Warm Springs MT State Hospital, age unknown

Summary

Official Montana State Certificate of Death for **Patrick J. ("P.J.") Murphy** (= person_patrick_murphy_my_ancestor = the "Pat the bartender" of CLAUDE.md = JJM Sr's father). **PLACE OF DEATH**: - County: Deer Lodge - Township: Warm Springs - Place: Warm Springs (Montana State Hospital — the asylum where he was committed 23 March 1908) **PERSONAL DATA**: - Full Name: P. J. Murphy - Sex: Male - Color: White - Marital status: Married - Date of Birth: **Unknown** (asylum staff completing form had no biographical knowledge) - Occupation: **Bartender** (PRIMARY-SOURCE CONFIRMATION of the "Pat the bartender" identification) - Birthplace: Ireland - Father: Unknown, Ireland-born - Mother: Maiden name Unknown, Ireland-born **MEDICAL CERTIFICATE**: - Date of death: April 23rd, 1912, 4:30 PM - Attending physician: T. C. [last name unclear], M.D., Warm Springs - Care period: March 23rd, 1908 to April 23rd, 1912 (= 4 years + 1 month at the asylum). Confirms the **23 March 1908 commitment date** (matches the existing archive's 1908 Pat-bartender-committed clippings). - Last saw alive: April 23rd 1912 (day of death) - Cause of death: **Exhaustion of Secondary Dementia** - Contributory: **Secondary Dementia** (duration 4 years — matches commitment-to-death period) **RESIDENCE AT DEATH**: - At place (asylum): 4 years - Former or Usual Residence: **Silver Bow County** (= Butte home address before commitment) **BURIAL**: - Place of Burial: Butte, Mont. - Date of burial: 191_ (blank but presumably late April 1912) - Undertaker: **Sherman & Reed**, Butte (the Butte funeral- director cohort that includes Larry Duggan and Joseph Richards) **INFORMANT**: J. M. Scanland, Warm Springs, Mont. (also signed as Registrar — apparently an asylum/registrar dual role). PRIMARY-SOURCE DOCUMENTATION confirming everything CLAUDE.md framework asserted about Pat the bartender: 1. Bartender occupation 2. Ireland-born 3. Married (to Ellen Lyne per other records) 4. Asylum commitment 23 March 1908 → death 23 April 1912 (4 yrs) 5. Butte burial via Sherman & Reed

Parties named in the record

• decedent
  P. J. Murphy(= Patrick Murphy (my ancestor))100

  age: unknown · status: Married · occupation: Bartender · died at: Warm Springs, Deer Lodge County, MT (State Hospital)

People — link detail

• Patrick Murphy (my ancestor)(as printed: P. J. Murphy)
  role: decedent · family confidence: 100 certain

  age: unknown · birthplace: Ireland · died at: Warm Springs, Deer Lodge County, MT (State Hospital) · status: Married · occupation: Bartender

  OFFICIAL DEATH CERTIFICATE of the user's paternal great-great-grandfather Patrick Murphy. Anchors his death date, asylum-tenure, occupation, and burial city to a federal/state vital record.

Also mentioned

• J. M. Scanland · informant_and_registrar

  Warm Springs, Mont. Asylum-staff dual-role informant + registrar. Likely a hospital administrator.

• T. C. (last name unclear) · attending_physician

  M.D., Warm Springs. Treated Patrick for the full 4-year asylum tenure 1908-1912.

• Sherman & Reed · undertaker

  Butte undertaking firm. Part of the same Butte funeral-director cohort as Larry Duggan and Joseph Richards (both already in people.yaml).

Places

• Butte, Montana (primary)
• Warm Springs, Montana (primary)
• Silver Bow County, Montana (primary)
• Deer Lodge, Montana (primary)
• Ireland (context)

Themes

• irish_american_community

Story threads

• The Pat-and-Ellen Murphy household — Butte 1887 to LA 1980

Tags

• source_primary_family
• evidence_corroborating
• direct_family
• book_chapter_material

Related sources

• 1908-03-23 — The Daily Inter Mountain, p.10 — PATRICK J. MURPHY IS FOUND INSANE
• 1908-03-24 — The Anaconda Standard, p.9 — IS SENT TO THE ASYLUM
• 1908-03-24 — The Butte Miner, p.6 — PATRICK J. MURPHY IS SENT TO STATE ASYLUM
• 1912-04-24 — The Butte Miner, p.6 — PATRICK MURPHY DEAD.
• 1884-11-04 — North Dakota, U.S., Naturalizations, 1873-1952 — Stutsman County Volume 2 — Declaration of Intent — Patrick Murphy, native of Ireland, b. 1858, arr. NY March 1882; filed Jamestown ND 4 Nov 1884

Open questions

• Attending physician's surname — "T. C." initials clear, surname cursive ambiguous. Could be Tannehill, Tucker, Taylor or similar.
• Filed-date field is blank — the date of registration is not explicit but presumably April or early May 1912.