PATRICK MURPHY DEAD.

Summary

Death notice. Patrick Murphy, a native of Ireland, 53 years of age, died last night (Tuesday 23 April 1912) at the family residence, 3 West Agate street, Butte. Resident of Butte for 25 years (came c. 1887). Survived by: wife (unnamed), two sons James and Daniel, a daughter Theresa, and a sister Miss Margaret Murphy — all of Butte. Funeral Friday morning at 9:00 from St. Patrick's church, requiem high mass. CRITICAL CONSOLIDATION. This Patrick Murphy is THE SAME PERSON as person_patrick_j_murphy_bartender_1908. Three independent matches: (1) age — bartender Pat was 50 in Jan 1908, would be ~54 in April 1912; this deceased was 53; within margin of bartender-reported-age error. (2) Native of Ireland / Cork — matches. (3) Wife and three children — bartender Pat had wife and three children; this man's survivors are wife, two sons, one daughter (= three children). (4) Sister Miss Margaret Murphy matches the Maggie Murphy who testified at the 1908 hearings. (5) The unnamed wife of THIS Patrick is the same Ellen Murphy who survives until 1935 (see Ellen-Murphy 1935 cluster): her obituary names her surviving sons as James (LA) and Dan (Butte) and daughter Theresa (Seattle) — the SAME three children's names. (6) The address has moved from 120 W. Quartz st. (1908) to 3 W. Agate st. (1912) — consistent with a household reset after Pat's 1908-09 asylum / poor-farm period. This clipping is the bridge that consolidates the previously separate person_patrick_j_murphy_bartender_1908 and the implicit husband of person_ellen_murphy_fox_hotel_1935 into the same human being.

People

• Patrick "Pat" J. Murphy (Cork-born bartender / shoemaker; d. 1912 Warm Springs MT)(as printed: Patrick Murphy)
  role: subject · family confidence: 10 flag

  Promoted from 25 → 50 on the consolidation with the Ellen-Murphy-1935 / James-Daniel-Theresa-children household. The user has clipped this Patrick's first 1908 insanity hearing, second 1908 hearing, asylum commitment, this 1912 death notice, AND four separate Ellen Murphy 1935 obituary items — a dense user-research-orbit pattern consistent with direct family. Held at 50 (Plausible) per the rule; the user-judgment promotion to 75+ should follow.

• Ellen (Lyne) Murphy (b. Ardgroom; m. Patrick Murphy 1881; d. Butte 1935)(as printed: wife [unnamed in this obit])
  role: surviving wife · family confidence: 10 flag

  Promoted from 10 → 50 on consolidation with bartender Pat. "Surviving wife" of THIS Pat = the same Ellen who is named in the 1908 hearings as Mrs. Ellen Murphy and who later lived at the Fox Hotel and died 1935. The three children's names match exactly across this clipping and the 1935 obituary.

• James Joseph "James J." Murphy (b. 1883 Ardgroom; d. 1938 LA)(as printed: James)
  role: surviving son · family confidence: 10 flag

  Son of Patrick and Ellen Murphy. Of Butte in 1912; of Los Angeles by 1935 (per Ellen's obit). Possibly the same James Murphy who appears in the Los Angeles Times pages held in this archive (1926, 1930, 1940) — open question.

• Daniel L. Murphy (Butte, b. 1894)(as printed: Daniel)
  role: surviving son · family confidence: 10 flag

  Son of Patrick and Ellen Murphy. Of Butte in 1912 and in 1935 (per Ellen's obit, where he is "Dan Murphy of Butte"). Possibly the same Daniel L. Murphy whose 1935 obituary is in this ingest (Obituary_for_Daniel_L_Murphy_Aged_70.pdf) — worth checking.

• Theresa Murphy (Seattle)(as printed: Theresa)
  role: surviving daughter · family confidence: 10 flag

  Daughter of Patrick and Ellen Murphy. Of Butte in 1912; of Seattle by 1935 (per Ellen's obit, "Miss Theresa Murphy of Seattle"). Unmarried as of 1935 ("Miss").

• Margaret Murphy (alias of person_margaret_murphy_sister_of_pat_bartender)(as printed: Miss Margaret Murphy)
  role: surviving sister · family confidence: 10 flag

  Sister of Patrick (not niece — this 1912 obit settles the Jan 1908 niece-vs-sister discrepancy: the Butte Daily Post was wrong; the Butte Miner and this 1912 obit are right). Unmarried as of 1912 ("Miss"). The ID name slug "person_maggie_murphy_niece_of_pat_bartender" is now a misnomer and should be renamed in the back-pass to person_margaret_murphy_sister_of_pat_bartender.

Places

• Butte, Montana (primary)
• Ireland (context)

Themes

• death
• obituary
• irish_american_community

Story threads

• Famine to emigration
• Berehaven Murphys
• The Pat-and-Ellen Murphy household — Butte 1887 to LA 1980

Tags

• candidate_family
• direct_family
• heavy
• evidence_primary

Source type

obituary, death_notice

Related sources

• 1908-01-07 — The Butte Daily Post, p.6 — JOHN BARLEYCORN IS VERY BUSY MAN
• 1908-01-08 — The Butte Miner, p.12 — PAT MURPHY FOUND TO BE SICK AND NOT INSANE
• 1908-01-08 — The Anaconda Standard, p.9 — TWO MENTAL UNFORTUNATES
• 1908-03-23 — The Daily Inter Mountain, p.10 — PATRICK J. MURPHY IS FOUND INSANE
• 1908-03-24 — The Butte Miner, p.6 — PATRICK J. MURPHY IS SENT TO STATE ASYLUM
• 1908-03-24 — The Anaconda Standard, p.9 — IS SENT TO THE ASYLUM
• 1935-08-24 — The Montana Standard, p.2 — MURPHY
• 1935-08-24 — The Montana Standard, p.5 — MRS. ELLEN MURPHY, 70, SUCCUMBS AT HOSPITAL
• 1935-08-27 — The Montana Standard, p.5 — MURPHY RITES HELD.
• 1935-08-27 — The Montana Standard, p.7 — Mrs. Ellen Murphy [pallbearer list, expanded]

Open questions

• HIGH PRIORITY for user judgment. The Patrick-Ellen-James- Daniel-Theresa household is now consolidated across 1908-1912 and (via Ellen's 1935 obit) 1935. The user has clipped every extant member's appearance in the press. The lump-judgment here promotes the household's family_confidence to 50 (the operating-mode ceiling for autonomous promotion); user signal is required to go to 75+.
• Rename `person_maggie_murphy_niece_of_pat_bartender` → `person_margaret_murphy_sister_of_pat_bartender` in the back- pass. The "niece" framing came from a single source (Butte Daily Post Jan 7 1908) contradicted by both the Butte Miner Jan 8 1908 ("a sister") and this 1912 obit ("a sister").
• Patrick's age 53 in 1912 implies birth c. 1858-59; his Jan 1908 self-reported 50 implied 1857-58. Round to 1858 for the person record.
• Patrick "had been a resident of this city for 25 years" — i.e. 1887, slightly earlier than the Jan 1908 "twenty years ago" self-report (= 1888). 1887-88 arrival window.