Murphy Family Archive

Summary

Sub-head: "Prominent Member of A. O. H. Is Laid at Rest With Impressive Ceremonies." Funeral the previous morning (Friday Mar 24 1916) at St. Patrick's church Butte. Requiem high mass by Rev. Father Collopy; graveside by Rev. Father George Lambertus. **Pallbearers — all AOH leadership:** - James Cummins (state president of the A. O. H.) - **James J. Murphy (county president of the order)** - John J. Crowley (president of Division No. 1, A. O. H., of Butte) - James Connolly - Martin Joyce - Patrick Goggins ARCHIVE SIGNIFICANCE. Direct confirmation that JJM is county president of the AOH in March 1916 — three and a half years after the October 1912 election. The 1910 chief-sentinel → 1912 county president → 1916 still county president sequence consolidates the decade of his AOH leadership. The pallbearer hierarchy (state → county → division No. 1 president) is itself informative for AOH governance. Thomas Kealey is presumably the "Thomas Keeley" who gave an address at the 1910 Centerville degrees meeting (107 candidates initiated) — same person, surname spelled both ways across the archive. Note also the 1912-08-29 clipping has "Tom Kiely" elected from Division No. 3, again likely the same man (Kealey / Keeley / Kiely all common spellings of the Cork Gaelic surname Ó Caollaidhe).

People

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

Also mentioned

Thomas Kealey · deceased
Prominent AOH member. Almost certainly the same as 'Thomas Keeley' / 'Tom Kiely' in 1910 and 1912 Butte AOH coverage. Worth a person_thomas_kealey_butte_aoh record if recurrence continues.
Rev. Father Collopy · officiant_requiem_high_mass
Rev. Father George Lambertus · officiant_graveside
James Cummins · pallbearer_state_president
State president of the AOH in March 1916. Same as the James Cummins / Cummings recurring through 1912-onward Butte AOH coverage.
John J. Crowley · pallbearer_division_1_president
President of Butte AOH Division No. 1, March 1916. Recurs through the JJM cluster from 1911 onward.
James Connolly · pallbearer
Martin Joyce · pallbearer
Patrick Goggins · pallbearer
Goggins recurs — Maurice Goggins is an AOH county-board delegate per 1912-08-29. Likely kin.

Places

Butte, Montana (primary)

Themes

Story threads

Source type

obituary, news_item

Related sources

Transcription

transcription: complete · confidence high

# MANY ATTEND FUNERAL OF LATE THOS. KEALEY ## Prominent Member of A. O. H. Is Laid at Rest With Impressive Ceremonies. *The Butte Miner, Saturday, March 25, 1916, p. 6.* The funeral of Thomas Kealey, for years a prominent member of the A. O. H., and a well-known and highly esteemed citizen of Butte, was attended yesterday morning at St. Patrick's church by many sorrowing friends, of whom many were members of the organization in which Mr. Kealey always had taken such an interest. Requiem high mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Collopy, while appropriate music was rendered by the choir. At the grave services were conducted by Rev. Father George Lambertus. The pallbearers were: James Cummins, state president of the A. O. H.; James J. Murphy, county president of the order; John J. Crowley, president of Division No. 1, A. O. H., of Butte, and James Connolly, Martin Joyce and Patrick Goggins.

Open questions

Thomas Kealey / Keeley / Kiely — confirm via cemetery / civil death records that these are one person. If yes, this is a well-documented Butte AOH figure 1910–1916 worth a person record.