Interment record — Mrs. Ellen Murphy, d. 23 Aug 1935, buried 26 Aug 1935

Cemetery interment register (likely Holy Cross Cemetery, Butte) · Silver Bow County, Montana · 1935-08-26

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Cemetery office interment register entry for Mrs. Ellen Murphy. Entry fields visible: - Deceased: Mrs. Ellen Murphy - Purchaser: Dan Murphy (her son Daniel L. Murphy) - Address: Fox Hotel (Butte) - Permit Number: 8609 - Age: 73 - Date of Death: 8-23-35 (= 23 Aug 1935) - Date of Burial: 8-26-35 (= 26 Aug 1935) - Cause of Death: Complications - Place of Birth: Ireland - Services: S.H Mass (Solemn High Mass; the account charges "High Solemn Mass" 50.00) - Lot: 74 - Block: 3 - Grave: 4 - Remarks: St. Patrick Parish Financial column totals $220.00 with itemised charges. Corroborates the existing person_ellen_murphy_fox_hotel_1935 record (death 23 Aug 1935, age 73, Fox Hotel resident). Adds specific plot location for the headstones/cemetery thread.

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--- newspaper: Cemetery interment ledger sheet (not a newspaper): a printed, ruled ledger form with handwritten entries in ink; no cemetery name, city or page number is printed on the sheet date: 1935-08-26 page: unknown (single sheet; the date is the "Date of Burial" as written, 8-26-35, and the "Date of Death" is written 8-23-35) transcribed_by: claude-sonnet-5-5 (Claude Code subagent), 2026-10-04 proofed_by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04 method: embedded 1-bit CCITT scan (1704 x 2200 px, 200 ppi) extracted with pdfimages and turned 90 degrees clockwise to read (2200 x 1704); the sheet cut into tiles upscaled 2x to 5x with LANCZOS after a light Gaussian blur to remove the dither; every handwritten entry, the amounts, the dates and the doubtful words (rows 5 and 6, the Block digit, the cause of death) re-read at 8x to 12x and the Block digit compared against the 3s and 5s in the date fields; metadata.yaml was read first, as instructed, then every entry was read from the image --- [Layout: a horizontal ledger sheet with the page turned sideways in the PDF. The printed field labels run down the left edge (Permit Number to Remarks); the handwritten entries stand to the right of each label. A charge account is ruled to the right: a Dr. side with a date column, a description column and a two-part amount column (dollars | cents), and a Cr. side with the same. Printed words are in plain type; handwritten words are written out as they appear. Faint grey writing that shows through from the other side of the leaf is not transcribed.] **Deceased** Mrs Ellen Murphy **Purchaser** Dan Murphy **Address** Fox Hotel ## Left-hand fields | Printed label | Handwritten entry | |---|---| | **Permit Number** | 8609 | | **Age** | 73 | | **Date of Death** | 8-23-35 | | **Date of Burial** | 8-26-35 | | **Cause of Death** | Complications | | **Place of Birth** | Ireland | | **Services** | S.H Mass | | **Lot** | 74 | | **Block** | 3 | | **Grave** | 4 | | **Deed** | [blank] | | **Remarks** | St. Patrick Parish | ## Account **Dr.** [heading, with the year written above the date column:] 1935 **Cr.** [heading, with the year written above its date column:] 1935 | Dr. date | Description | Dollars | Cents | Cr. date | Cr. description | Dollars | Cents | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 8-24 | Single Grave | 70 | 00 | 10-2 | By Cash | 220 | 00 | | | Perpetual Care | | | | | | | | | Opening Grave | 20 | 00 | | | | | | | Lowering Grave | 8 | 00 | | | | | | | [Safe?] for grave | 2 | 00 | | | | | | | 6 [Casket?] | 65 | 00 | | | | | | | High-Solemn Mass | 50 | 00 | | | | | | | Cemetery Services | 5 | 00 | | | | | | | | **220** | **00** | | | **220** | **00** | [Each of the two totals, 220 00 on the Dr. side and 220 00 on the Cr. side, is ruled off with a single line above and a double line below.] [The lower part of the sheet is ruled and blank. Faint grey writing shows through beside the heading (to the right of "Purchaser" and "Address") and in the empty rows of the Cr. side; it is not legible and is not transcribed.]

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Open questions

  • Cemetery identification — Holy Cross is the most likely Catholic cemetery for a St. Patrick's parishioner, but the source page does not name the cemetery; verify against the 1935-08-27 burial-rites clipping.
  • Cause of death — answered 4 Oct 2026 (vision read, Sonnet and Opus) as "Complications".

Source ID: 1935-08-23_holy-cross-butte_ellen-lyne-murphy-interment

Reference: Lot 74, Block 3, Grave 4

Accessed by lukedmurphy on 2026-05-27.