MRS. MARY KELLY, EX-WALKERVILLE RESIDENT, TAKEN
The Montana Standard, Butte, 1940-05-30, p.5
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Summary
Obituary for Mrs. Mary Kelly (per the user's filing, maiden name CHATHAM), former Walkerville resident, who died Tuesday 28 May 1940 at her Los Angeles home. Native of Michigan; came to Butte more than 50 years ago (i.e. by 1890 or earlier); left Butte for California "a number of years ago." SURVIVORS: - Three daughters — Mrs. James J. Murphy (Los Angeles); Miss Mary Kelly (Los Angeles); Mrs. Fred Hauser (Seattle) - One son — Walter Kelly (Los Angeles) - Three sisters (all of Butte) — Mrs. Nellie Tracy; Mrs. William Pascoe; Mrs. Agnes Brennan - Several nieces, nephews, and grandchildren in Butte and Los Angeles Mrs. Tracy and Mrs. Brennan travelled to LA for the funeral. CONSOLIDATION WITH OTHER KELLY-MURPHY CLIPPINGS: - The "three daughters and one son" list matches the surviving siblings of Imelda Kelly Krueger (d. 1926) — except Imelda herself was deceased by 1940. The four children of Mary Chatham Kelly are thus: Imelda (d. 1926), Mrs. James J. Murphy, Mary (Mayme), Walter, plus Mrs. Fred Hauser (= Irene Kelly Hauser). - Mrs. William Pascoe of Butte = the same Mrs. W. J. Pascoe named as "aunt" in the 1954 Mary Kelly obit. - The Walkerville origin + Michigan-to-Butte arrival pattern matches Mrs. Johanna (Lynch) Murphy (1917 obit, also Michigan-born, also Butte from c. 1882) — though the two are NOT the same person (different husbands, different children). ARCHIVE NOTE. Per user direction (2026-05-26) the speculative lineage tree linking Mary Chatham → Kelly daughters → Mrs. James J. Murphy of LA → 1940 Llewellyn-Murphy bride is held in the docs/speculative-lineage/ file, NOT in archive/people/. This clipping records the primary-source facts. CHATHAM CLUSTER. The user has clipped several Chatham items (James Chatham delegate to Democratic Country Convention; John Chatham bank robbery juror; Mary Chatham Kelly obit here) — Chatham is one of the recurring user-research-orbit surnames. The fact that Mary Chatham was one of FOUR Chatham sisters, three of whom remained in Butte (Tracy, Pascoe, Brennan married names), makes the Butte Chatham line denser than the surname-frequency alone would suggest.
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Mrs. Mary Kelly, long a resident of Walkerville, died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. A native of Michigan, she had come to Butte more than 50 years earlier and moved to California some years ago. She is survived by three daughters — Mrs. James J. Murphy and Miss Mary Kelly of Los Angeles and Mrs. Fred Hauser of Seattle — a son, Walter Kelly of Los Angeles, and three sisters in Butte, Mrs. Nellie Tracy, Mrs. William Pascoe and Mrs. Agnes Brennan; Mrs. Tracy and Mrs. Brennan left yesterday morning for the funeral.
- “died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, Calif., according to word received here by relatives”
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People
- Agnes Kelly Murphy(as printed: Mrs. James J. Murphy)role: surviving daughter · family confidence: 95 certain
- Mary (Chatham) Kelly(as printed: Mrs. Mary Kelly)role: deceased · family confidence: 95 certain
- Miss Mary "Mamie" Kelly (LA, d. 1954)(as printed: Miss Mary Kelly)role: surviving daughter · family confidence: 75 strong
- Nellie (Chatham) Dennison Tracy(as printed: Mrs. Nellie Tracy)role: surviving sister · family confidence: 75 strong
- Agnes (Chatham) Brennan(as printed: Mrs. Agnes Brennan)role: surviving sister · family confidence: 95 certain
- Irene Kelly Hauser (1902–1986; 'Mrs. Fred Hauser'; Agnes Kelly Murphy's sister)(as printed: Mrs. Fred Hauser)role: surviving daughter · family confidence: 95 certain
- Walter Kelly (1895–1962; 'Beadle Kelly'; Agnes Kelly Murphy's brother)(as printed: Walter Kelly)role: surviving son · family confidence: 95 certain
- Josephine (Chatham) Lee Pascoe(as printed: Mrs. William Pascoe)role: surviving sister · family confidence: 75 strong
- William Pascoe / W. J. Pascoe (Butte)(as printed: Mrs. William Pascoe)role: husband named in wifes style · family confidence: 25 candidate
Places
- Butte, Montana (context)
- Walkerville, Montana (context)
- Los Angeles, California (primary)
- Michigan (context)
- Seattle, Washington (context)
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obituary
Related sources
- 1908-10-24 — The Butte Miner, p.14 — Wedding Bells.
- 1917-03-02 — The Butte Miner, p.8 — MRS. JOHANNA MURPHY IS VICTIM OF AN OPERATION
- 1926-11-11 — The Los Angeles Times, p.20 — KRUEGER [paid death notice]
- 1940-11-09 — The Los Angeles Times, p.24 — Llewellyn-Murphy Bridal Solemnities Due Today
- 1954-10-28 — The Montana Standard, p.2 — Miss Mary Kelly Dies in California
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Open questions
- The Chatham surname is recurring across the user's research-orbit clippings — James Chatham (Dem politics), John Chatham (juror). The three Chatham-born Butte sisters (Tracy, Pascoe, Brennan married names) extend the Chatham presence further. Worth a Chatham vocab / person consolidation pass when supplemental records arrive.