MAHONEY, PATRICK E.
Age 63

b. 1831 - County Kerry, Ireland
d. 4/27/1901 - Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana

 

St. Patrick's Cemetery
Butte, Silver Bow Co., MT
Find-a-Grave: Patrick E. Mahoney
Block 269 Lot 4

   Patrick E. Mahoney, aged 63 years, died yesterday at the family residence, No. 928 Utah avenue, leaving to mourn his death, besides his wife, two sons and two daughters, E. R. and John P. and Mrs. Anna T. Chapman and Mrs. Mary A. Toole.  The funeral will take place Monday morning at 9 o'clock from the family residence.  Services at St. Patrick's church.

The Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana
4/28/1901

 


 

Excerpt from The Butte Miner, Butte, MT - 5/31/1901

Following is a list of the dead soldiers 
who rest in the Butte cemeteries:



Note: Patrick Mahoney is last on the list.  It is uncertain that he is the Patrick Mahoney mentioned in this memorial; therefore, it is unknown if this man was the Civil War Veteran/GAR member.  No other information could be found for the name of Patrick Mahoney. Therefore it is believe that this man is the same as mentioned in the GAR list.

 

 

 

 

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MAKINSON, HENRY HARRISON
Age 96
b. 9/1/1840 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
d. 9/2/1936 Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana


CO. B 1st REGIMENT, 
MARYLAND LIGHT ARTILLERY

Mount Moriah Cemetery
Butte, Silver Bow Co., MT
Find-a-Grave: Henry Harrison Makinson
GAR Plot: Block F Row 2 Grave 32

 

Spouse
Caroline E. Beer Makinson
1862 - 1945

 

 

HENRY H. MAKINSON, BUTTE'S OLDEST RESIDENT, AND ONE OF LAST OF G.A.R., PASSES

SEPTEMBER 2, 1936
...Completes This Epitaph

VETERAN STANDS AT HIS BURIAL PLACE

H. H. Makinson, 96-year-old Civil war veteran, died here yesterday, a day after he marked this anniversary of his birth.  Several years ago he ordered the marker for the grave where he will be laid to rest beside other comrades of the war between the Blue and Gray.  This inscription was made on the tombstone at Mr. Makinson's order.

Now death has written the finis.


 

 

End Comes to Veteran of Civil War Day After 96th Birthday

 

   Henry H. Makinson, Butte’s oldest resident and one of the few survivors of Lincoln post of the G.A.R., answered his last call yesterday, one day after his ninety-sixth birthday.  The man who marched away to help Lincoln preserve the Union in ’61 died without a struggle at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Makinson, 1739 Wall street.  Death came at 1 o’clock p.m.

   The grand old man was up and about on his ninety-sixth birthday, but without his usual vigor. Yesterday morning he remained in bed but gave no evidence of his approaching end.  Shortly after noon those at his bedside became alarmed at his unusual breathing and called his son from work.  The latter arrived home within a few minutes and sought to give his father some little attention.

“I’m Too Tired.”

    “Oh! I’m too tired,” said the old veteran.  These were the last words he spoke.  He turned on his right side and slept peacefully away within a few minutes.

   Funeral services will be under Masonic auspices and will be held either Saturday or Monday, it was announced, depending on the arrival of relatives.

   Those close to him sensed several days ago that the sands of life were running low and kept a close watch over him. Usually vigorous and animated in his conversation, Mr. Makinson slowed up perceptibly in the past month, members of his family stated.  His eyesight began to fail rapidly.  Two days ago—on the eve of his birthday—he showed little interest in achieving another milestone.  In former days, however, he had often jocularly predicted that he would live to be 100.

Picks Out Headstone

   Many years ago Mr. Makinson picked out a headstone that he wished to be placed over his grave in the old soldiers’ plot in Mount Moriah cemetery.  In line with a rule of the government, every soldier is provided with a marble stone to mark his last resting place.  Mr. Makinson remarked that marble would eventually crumble and he wanted granite.  “It will last at least 100 years,” he said.  Accordingly he purchased a granite stone from a local firm and had it properly inscribed.  All that is lacking is the date of his death.  The stone was put in the old soldiers’ plot at the time of its purchase, there to await final placement at its owner’s death.  Mr. Makinson often visited the old soldiers’ plot—particularly on Memorial day, and was often noticed gazing on the stone that would some day mark the end of the trail.

   He was a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln.  In this connection it was recalled yesterday by the man who sold him his headstone that Mr. Makinson often expressed the wish that a memorial in the shape of a broken tree could be erected in the old soldiers’ plot typifying the manner in which Lincoln’s life was cut short.

Word Spreads

   Word of Mr. Makinson’s death spread about the city in remarkably short time and was received with expressions of regret on all sides.  His was a familiar face in the Mining city.  His age, his long years of constructive effort in this community, his connection with patriotic societies, his general optimistic demeanor and his service to his country marked him as one for universal respect.

   Although missing on the streets in the past few years, it was learned yesterday following his death that he had made a trip uptown last Friday, remaining only a few minutes to complete an item of business.  In former years he was a familiar figure about town, particularly in the days when he made his home on East Broadway and before going to spend his last days at the home of his son.

Here 50 Years

   Mr. Makinson came to Butte a little more than 50 years ago.  Hs first work was on construction of the old smelter in Anaconda.  He was a cabinet make and millwright by trade and built several small gold mills in the Butte area.  He also constructed the gallows frames at the Berkeley and Mountain Con mines.  He had the reputation of being a master craftsman.

   A native of Lancaster, Pa., he moved at an early age with his family to Port Deposit, Md. His father was a tailor, born in England.  He apprenticed his son to a cabinet maker who specialized in caskets.  The son was 20 years old when Lincoln called for volunteers to preserve the Union.  Mr. Makinson enlisted for service on Sept. 4, 1861, three days after his 21st birthday.  Records show that he was honorably discharged on Sept. 19, 1864.  He was a private in Snow’s Battery B, First Maryland Regiment, Light Artillery.  The young soldier returned from the conflict with a bullet in his side, hit by a sniper while riding a lead cavalry horse.  He carried the bullet to his death.

Goes to Nevada

   The end of the war saw a great movement west and Mr. Makinson became one of those who left to seek his fortune in the land where an empire was in the making.  He went to Nevada and California where he worked as a carpenter.  He made one trip back home but stayed only a short time.  On his return west he heard at Salt Lake City about the Butte camp and came here.  He immediately entered into the spirit of the community and became an integral part of it.  Outside of his daily work he took a deep interest in patriotic endeavor and early became a member of Lincoln post of the G. A. R.  Here he married and became the father of two sons, one of whom, Harold, lives with his wife and family, at Akron, Ohio.

Two Members Left

   In the death of Mr. Makinson, Lincoln post of the G. A. R. is left with two members who are residents of Butte.  They are Peter Green and Thomas Bainbridge.  Mr. Green has not attended a meeting in several years, due to failing health.  He was 92 years of age last Memorial day.  Mr. Bainbridge is still in good health and active.  A few years ago it was necessary to call in members from Anaconda to help fill the various offices of the post.  Accordingly, the post in that city was disbanded and the remaining members became identified with the post here.  Since then the Anaconda members have passed.  They were John Marchion and D. I. Breneman.  Butte members who died in recent years were Simon Hauswirth and C. S. Shoemaker.

   Mr. Makinson was a charter member of Summit Valley lodge No. 123, A. F. & A. M., having transferred from the Harmony lodge No, 53 at Port Deposit, Md., where he joined the order on June 25, 1869.  He also enjoyed the distinction of having been a charter member of the third Knights of Pythias lodge organized in the United States.

Appears July 4.

   His last public appeara nce in Butte was last July 4 when he rode in a car at the head of the fourth of July celebration.

   Surviving relatives are his wife, Mrs. Caroline Makinson; a son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Makinson, 1739 Wall street; and son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Makinson, Akron, Ohio; a granddaughter, Emmy Lou Makinson; grandson, David Makinson; nephews, Murl Gidel and Grant Beer, both of Butte, and a nephew Frank Beer, of Los Angeles.

   After Mr. Makinson retired from the field of industry he devoted much of his time during the summer months to carding for the graves of departed comrades and friends who were not buried in the G. A. R. plot.

Visits Cemeteries

   It was not unusual to see him board a street car with a small garden rake, spade and sprinkling can to visit one of the cemeteries.  There he worked form morning till night.

   Although his legs gave him considerable trouble, he seldom complained when the weather would permit visit to the graveyard.  And almost invariably he paused to polish his own headstone.

   On last Memorial day his first concern, upon reaching the G. A. R. plot, was for his stone, which had been removed from its customary place near the center of the lot.

Poses for Picture

   After the exercises—he attended those of all organizations—he returned to the Mount Moriah chapel to find the stone.  It was at that time that he posed for a picture beside it.

   “I had this stone made,” he remarked, “because it will last for hundreds of years.  It is a good stone.  Those provided by the government will crumble through time and will be blown away, while mine will stand.

   Old friends recalled that Mr. Makinson once said he would be the last of Lincoln post to answer the last call.  It was then that he purchased his headstone—about 15 years ago.

The Montana Standard
Butte, Montana
9/3/1936

BELOVED WARRIOR SLEEPS  

    Wafted away on a gentle zelphyr at the end of summer, a sturdy soul has gone to its celestial reward.  A staunch and adventurous heart, gnarled with age, has paused and ceased its beat.  It’s time to run, like the waxen taper that flickers gently, its flame dimmed—and then is gone.  And so Henry H. Makinson, whose jaunty step and clear eye, for so many years bridged for Butte people the today with a long yesterday, is no more.  With his passing the age which produced him, the times which needed him, the national crisis which he helped to save, recedes a step farther from our consciousness.

   When we, who are graying with advancing age, were youths with life’s full span and all its mysteries ahead, there were many like Henry Makinson.  They were vigorous men the, proud of their past, confident of the future, serene in the knowledge of their magnificent service to home and country.  They were the members of the Grand Army of the Republic; the American Legion of a previous day.  There are but few of them left today.  Only two remain in Butte, since Henry Makinson, after his ninety-sixth birthday, closed his tired old eyes in eternal sleep.  Death was not hard for him, nor was he afraid.  In his youth, on the battlefields of his country’s greatest travail he had seen the Grim Reaper many times face to face and he carried in that small, proud, erect body of his a bullet from one of the war’s early battlefields, constant reminder that death rides closely beside each one of us.

   Makinson served the full four years of the Civil war.  Lincoln was his hero of heroes.  And he served a lifetime as an example for each new generation of loyalty, of devotion, of service, He loved his country; he offered his life in its service.  He believed, and often said, that devotion by all the people would prove a cure for the petty evils, a remedy for this incidental problems that befall each succeeding generation.

   Butte loved him well, because like the remainder of that little group of which he was a member, Butte looked upon him as a proud tradition; his handclasp bound us closer to the immortal past.  He was one of those who had forged for this nation ties that will never part.

   With fond memories and loving thoughts Butte will attend him at the last bugle call in Mount Moriah’s Grand Army plot which he loved so well and where he mused so often over the memory of departed comrades.

   There is but a single wish; may he meet in that last bivouac all those intrepid souls he knew who answered Lincoln’s anguished call; may they all be there in happy reunion with their great leader and in the shadows of the camp fires may they all partake of that incense of pride and gratitude with which a united and indissoluble nation regards their memories.

The Montana Standard
Butte, Montana
9/4/1936
 

BUTTE VETERANS HONOR “BOYS IN BLUE”

The three surviving members of Lincoln Post, Grand Army of the Republic, pictured above, were honored guests today at Memorial Day services conducted by Butte veterans’ organizations. As history goes it’s been quite some time since millions of marching feet kept time to the stirring music of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” but to these Civil war veterans it seems only yesterday.  The Post cameramen caught the three old soldiers talking over some of their Civil war experiences yesterday.  Tom Bainbridge (left) is telling Peter Green (center) and H. H. Makinson (right) about some of the major engagements in which his outfit took part in the civil conflict.  Bainbridge is the youngest of the three veterans and Makinson is the oldest.  He is 96 and was honorary marshal of today’s parade.

The Montana Standard
Butte, Montana
5/31/1936

DECORATION DAY RITES COLORFUL
Parade Reminiscent of Palmy Days 
When Vets of ’61 Were Young

 (Complete article at Newspapers.com)

 Services at G.A.R. Post  

   The first services were held at G. A. R. plot.  H. H. Makinson, past commander of Lincoln post, opened the ceremonies and read the ritualistic charge.

   Almost at his feet lay a tombstone on which is inscribed: “H. H. Makinson, Company B Lieutenant Artillery, Prunell Legion, Maryland” and the date of his birth, 1840.  The date of his death is left blank.  The stone reads that he died in “in 19…..” The oldest member of Lincoln post and one of the oldest men in the state, Mr. Makinson read his charge in a clear strong voice while overhead airplanes soared, dipped, banked and circled and dropped flowers on the last resting place of the veterans of the war between the states.  

Excerpt from
The Montana Standard
Butte, Montana
3/31/1931

 

 

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MALLAHAN, WILLIAM OSCAR
Age 81

b. 12/10/1846 - Hancock County, Ohio
Obituary indicates birth place as Hancock County, Missouri.
Death certificate and most Census records indicates he was born in Ohio.

d. 4/19/1928 - Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado 

 

CO. K. 9th KANSAS CAVALRY

Mount Moriah Cemetery
Butte, Silver Bow Co., MT
Find-a-Grave: William Oscar Mallahan
Block A2 Lot 121 Grave 3

 

Spouse
Artemissa “Arty” Lloyd Mallahan
1851 - 1933

 

 


 

W. O. MALLAHAN IS DEAD 
IN COLORADO

Native of Missouri, Served in Civil War; Was Well-Known in Butte  

   William O. Mallahan, 81, at one time foreman of the Northern Pacific roundhouse in Butte, died in Pueblo, Col., Thursday, according to word received here yesterday.  He was born in Hancock county, Mo., and served in the Civil war with the 18th Iowa infantry.

   When only 15 years old he took part in the campaign against Quantrell, whose famous band was composed of such men as Jesse and Frank James and other border bandits.  He also fought in the battles of Newtonia and Springfield.

   After leaving the army at the close of the war he became an express agent and for three years waged war with Indians and road agents.  With the coming of the railroad he obtained a place as fireman and later joined the mechanical staff.  He went to work for the Northern Pacific in 1886 as foreman of the Brainerd, Minn., roundhouse.  Then he was transferred to Livingston and came to Butte in 1898.  He was retired on pension in 1920.

   He is survived by his wife and five grandchildren, three of whom live in Pueblo.  Two of his grandchildren are in Montana, Mrs. Linus Carlton of Stanford and Mrs. Oscar Ladsch of Livingston.

The Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana
4/22/1928

 


Civil War Veteran. Private in Co H, 18th Iowa Infantry, and under alias John Mack as a Private in Co K, 9th Kansas Calvary.

 

 

 

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MANCHESTER, PERRY H.
Age 83

b. 11/6/1843 - Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Michigan
d. 1/15/1927 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California 

CO. C. 20th MICHIGAN INFANTRY

Inglewood Park Cemetery
Inglewood, Los Angeles Co., CA
Find-a-Grave: Perry H. Manchester
Plot: Crescent Lawn

 

Spouse
Amity Piper Manchester
Married 11/6/1867 - Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., Michigan
1845 - 1917

 

P. H. MANCHESTER

Department Commander P. H. Manchester of the Grand Army of the Republic, by virtue of which position he is entitled to the title of major general, is also one of the board of managers of the Soldier’s home.  He was born at Battle Creek, Mich., November 6, 1843.  His early education was received in the public schools of his native town.  In July, 1862, he enlisted in the Twentieth Michigan infantry, Company C, serving throughout the war and participating in the battles of Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, Jackson, Wilderness, Spottsylvania and North Anna river.  He was wounded in the latter engagement and was confined in a hospital form May 25 1864, until after the close of the war.  He was discharged May 11, 1865.

   Major General Manchester came to Butte in October, 1889, and for 11 years held a responsible position with the Nelson Story company.  He has been very active in G. A. R. affairs in Montana, and Mrs. Manchester has been equally as prominent in the affairs of the Women’s Relief corps, an auxiliary organization.

The Butte Daily Post
Butte, Montana
2/9/1901

 

 




The Butte Daily Post - 2/9/1901


BUTTE G. A. R. VET DIES  
IN LOS ANGELES

P. H. Manchester, Pioneer Montanan 
Succumbs to Illness in South

   Perry H. Manchester, 83, Civil war veteran, formerly member of the state legislature and pioneer resident of Butte, died yesterday morning in Los Angeles, according to word received here from his daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Little, 718 West Broadway, who accompanied her father to California two weeks ago.  The funeral and interment will be in the southern city, it was announced.

   Mr. Manchester was born in Michigan.  At the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in the Union army and served in the blue forces until the end of hostilities.  After peace had been declared he lived in Battle Creek for a number of years and in 1889 migrated to Butte where he lived continually until 1912 when with Mrs. Manchester he moved to California.

   During his residence in the Mining city Mr. Manchester was manager of the Story Feed and Flour branch and took active interest in the affairs of the local G. A. R. post of which he was a member.  He was elected state department commander and was delegate to the national encampment of the order at Grand Rapids in 1925 and last year attended a convention at Des Moines.  A member of Lincoln post of the order in Butte he transferred to the Los Angeles post when he moved to that city.

   Mr. Manchester was widely known throughout the state.  Serving in the state legislature he became acquainted in all sections of Montana and usually spent some time visiting during his trips north from California.  He spent last summer in the state and in the fall visited his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Little in Butte.  Mrs. Little accompanied him to California on his return two weeks ago.

   Mrs. Manchester died in 1917.  During her residence in the city she was active in the affairs of the Women’s Relief corps.

   Mr. Manchester’s health began to fail after his recent removal to California culminating in his death yesterday.  He was a member of the Masonic fraternity in Butte and when he moved to California transferred to a lodge of the order in Los Angeles.

The Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana
1/6/1927

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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