MARY A. SULLIVAN IS NAMED AS GUARDIAN FOR MARGARET MURPHY

The Butte Daily Post, Butte, 1909-04-07, p.5

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  • articleThe article as printed

  • name as printed"ministrator of the estate of Ellen Murphy,"

    Ellen Murphy

  • name as printed"DeSiere, discharged. The estate of Ellen / Murphy consists of $572.72 in cash and lot"

    Ellen Murphy

  • name as printed"was today appointed guardian of Margaret / Murphy and her minor child by Judge"

    Margaret Murphy

  • name as printed"of which Margaret Murphy is the sole"

    Margaret Murphy

  • name as printed"turned over to Mary A. Sullivan."

    Mary A. Sullivan

Summary

Probate / court news. Mary A. Sullivan of Yellowstone county was appointed guardian of Margaret Murphy and her minor child by Judge McClernan. The final account of the administrator of the estate of Ellen Murphy — of which Margaret Murphy is the sole heir — was approved the same day and the administrator, Rev. Father DeSiere, was discharged. The estate consists of $572.72 in cash and lot 4, block 1, Travonia addition (a Butte subdivision), to be turned over to Mary A. Sullivan. IMPORTANT — this is a DIFFERENT Ellen Murphy, a DIFFERENT Margaret Murphy, and a DIFFERENT Mary A. Sullivan from the Patrick-bartender-Murphy household elsewhere in this archive: - This Ellen Murphy died before April 1909 (her estate is being settled); the Fox-Hotel Ellen of person_ellen_murphy_fox_hotel_ 1935 lived through 1935. Different person. - This Margaret Murphy has a minor child of her own; the "Miss Margaret Murphy" sister of the bartender Pat was unmarried in 1912 (per Pat's obit). Different person. - This Mary A. Sullivan is of YELLOWSTONE county (eastern Mt, Billings area), not Silver Bow; the Mary Sullivan named in the Jan 1908 bartender hearings was a Silver Bow / Butte figure. Different person. Three separate same-named records preserved under the two- records rule. The "Murphy / Sullivan" surname overlap with the bartender household is striking but does not establish family identity.

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Narrative

Judge McClernan appoints Mary A. Sullivan of Yellowstone county guardian of Margaret Murphy and her minor child. The same day, the final account of the administrator of Ellen Murphy's estate — of which Margaret Murphy is sole heir — is approved and the administrator, Rev. Father DeSiere, discharged; the estate, consisting of $572.72 in cash and lot 4, block 1, Travonia addition, passes to Mary A. Sullivan.

  • “The estate of Ellen Murphy consists of $572.72 in cash and lot 4, block 1, Travonia addition”

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People

  • role: deceased decedent · family confidence: 0 not family

    Decedent. Distinct from person_ellen_murphy_fox_hotel_1935 (alive in 1909) and person_ellen_murphy_wife_of_dennis_1892 (whereabouts unknown after 1889). Two-records rule.

  • Margaret Murphy (minor heir, 1909)(as printed: Margaret Murphy)
    role: heir ward · family confidence: 0 not family

    Sole heir of the 1909 Ellen Murphy estate. Has a minor child of her own; herself a ward under Mary A. Sullivan's guardianship. Distinct from person_margaret_murphy_sister_ of_pat_bartender.

  • Mary A. Sullivan (Yellowstone county, 1909)(as printed: Mary A. Sullivan)
    role: court appointed guardian · family confidence: 0 not family

    Of Yellowstone county Mt. Probably a relative of the decedent Ellen Murphy and/or her heir Margaret. Yellowstone county is in eastern Montana (the Billings area), far from the Butte (Silver Bow) cluster the archive otherwise tracks.

Also mentioned

  • Judge McClernan · presiding_judge

    Silver Bow district court judge handling probate matters in 1909.

  • Rev. Father DeSiere · discharged_administrator

    Roman Catholic priest who served as estate administrator. DeSiere is a French / Belgian surname; possibly a Jesuit or Diocese-of-Helena priest assigned to Butte's parishes.

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Transcription
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# MARY A. SULLIVAN IS NAMED AS GUARDIAN FOR MARGARET MURPHY *The Butte Daily Post, Wednesday, April 7, 1909, p. 5.* Mary A. Sullivan of Yellowstone county was today appointed guardian of Margaret Murphy and her minor child by Judge McClernan. The final account of the administrator of the estate of Ellen Murphy, of which Margaret Murphy is the sole heir, was approved by Judge McClernan today and the administrator, Rev. Father DeSiere, discharged. The estate of Ellen Murphy consists of $572.72 in cash and lot 4, block 1, Travonia addition, and will be turned over to Mary A. Sullivan.

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Open questions

  • The Travonia addition — which part of Butte is it? Worth a note in the place vocab if it recurs.
  • Rev. Father DeSiere — does he recur in other Butte clippings? A discharged-administrator priest serving Catholic Butte in 1909 would have known multiple parish families.
  • Is this Mary A. Sullivan of Yellowstone county the Mary Sullivan named as Pat Murphy's sister at the January 1908 hearing (1908-01-07 Butte Daily Post)? Held as different people under the two-records rule; a long shot, but if they are the same, this probate is a family event.
  • The Travonia addition lot 4, block 1 could be checked against any Butte property record showing family-Murphy ownership.