VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA.

The Anaconda Standard, Anaconda, 1914-06-22, p.7

Summary

Short death notice. **John Kelly, aged 65 years**, died at a local hospital yesterday (Sunday June 21 1914) of pneumonia. Native of Ireland, lived in Montana since 1876. Leaves a widow and five children: - Four daughters: **Mrs. Joseph Murphy**, Mamie Kelly, Amelia Kelly, Irene Kelly - One son: Walter Kelly Funeral services Tuesday June 23 1914 at 9am at "the late residence, the Mullins house in Centerville" — high mass to follow at St. Lawrence's church (the Centerville Catholic parish, where many JJM-cluster clippings center). ARCHIVE SIGNIFICANCE. (a) **Another Murphy in-law:** John Kelly's eldest daughter is "Mrs. Joseph Murphy" — another candidate Butte Murphy household to log. (b) Kelly = Irish- born (likely Cork, by demographic default), in Montana since 1876 — the 1876 emigration date is significant: places his arrival 8 years before the Anaconda 1884-86 mine boom. (c) "Mullins house in Centerville" — a recurring boarding-house /tenement type for Centerville Irish-American Catholic residents. Surrounding column items (page 7): - "Funerals" — Mrs. Alma Bolitho funeral Tuesday morning 9am 646 East Galena to Sacred Heart church, Mount Moriah cemetery - Mrs. Sarah Alice Bennett, age 51, died Sunday at daughter Mrs. H. W. Nickerson's home, 1939 Princeton avenue. Shipped to her old home in Eastport, Maine by White the undertaker. - "Notice to French-Canadians" — meet at B., A. & P. depot 8:30am Wednesday June 24 1914, Albert C. Marquis Secretary. - Theatre items (preceding column): "A Modern Cleopatra" pleasing travesty by William Halliday and Anna Turner; Majestic Musical Four; Kitty Flynn from Brighton; J. R. Armstrong and James Manley "It Happened This Way"; Bob Rosaire and Howard Prevost acrobats; Empresscope news in motion pictures.

Also mentioned

John Kelly · deceased_subject
b. Ireland c. 1849; d. Butte 1914-06-21 age 65 of pneumonia. Montana resident since 1876 (one of the earliest Irish-born Butte arrivals in the archive). Lived at the Mullins house in Centerville. High mass at St. Lawrence's.
Mrs. Joseph Murphy · daughter_of_deceased_kelly_butte_murphy_inlaw
Eldest daughter of John Kelly. Married name 'Mrs. Joseph Murphy' — a candidate Butte Murphy household. Worth flagging for follow-up cross-reference (a person_joseph_murphy_butte record could anchor).
Mamie Kelly · daughter
Amelia Kelly · daughter
Irene Kelly · daughter
Walter Kelly · son
Mrs. Alma Bolitho · peripheral_funeral_notice
Mrs. Sarah Alice Bennett · peripheral_funeral_notice
Mrs. H. W. Nickerson · peripheral_daughter_of_bennett
Albert C. Marquis · peripheral_french_canadian_secretary

Places

Butte, Montana (primary)
Centerville (district of Butte) (primary)
Ireland (context)

Themes

Story threads

Berehaven Murphys

Source type

obituary, death_notice

Transcription

transcription: complete · confidence high

# VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA. *The Anaconda Standard, Monday, June 22, 1914, p. 7.* John Kelly, aged 65 years, died at a local hospital yesterday of pneumonia. He was a native of Ireland and lived in Montana since 1876. He leaves a widow and five children, four daughters and a son. The daughters are Mrs. Joseph Murphy, Mamie, Amelia and Irene Kelly, and the son, Walter. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock at the late residence, the Mullins house in Centerville, and high mass will follow at St. Lawrence's church.

Open questions

Mrs. Joseph Murphy, daughter of John Kelly — promote her husband Joseph Murphy to a candidate-family person record? Joseph + region + Kelly father-in-law is plausibly identifying. The 1914 Centerville address (Mullins house) makes him a Centerville-Catholic Butte Murphy, geographically in the JJM orbit.
John Kelly's 1876 Montana arrival date is one of the earliest in the archive for an Irish-born Butte resident — worth tracing if any genealogical records survive.