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Transcribed from the
Butte Miner, Butte, Montana, May 31, 1903
EMMET SOCIETY HONORS DEAD
ELEGANT
MONUMENT OF THE LOCAL ASSOCIATION
WAS DEDICATED AT CATHOLIC CEMETERY YESTERDAY.
ADDRESSES WERE DELIVERED BY MARTIN MADGINNIS
AND CHARLES LANE—ROLL OF THE HONORED DEPARTED.
The large and handsome
granite monument that was recently erected in the Catholic
cemetery by the Robert Emmet Literary Association was
dedicated yesterday with impressive
ceremonies. The monument stands in about the center of the
cemetery on the north side of the main driveway. It is
twenty feet in height of elegant proportions, and a proud
evidence of the great respect and reverence of the
association for its honored dead.
The plot on which the monument was erected is forty by sixty
feet in size, and already eleven members of the Emmet
society rest there. Myles Burke was the first member of the
association to be buried in the Emmet plot. He was a
veteran of the civil war and was born in1840 and died in
1892. John E. Griffen, an ex-auditor of Silver Bow County,
and a member of the society, was buried in the plot in 1900.
On the east of the monument are the following inscriptions:
Myles Burke, born 1840, died 1892; Daniel Noonan, born 1863,
died 1894; Patrick H. Bracken, born 1840, died 1896; Edward
Shields, born 1847, died 1899; Patrick F. Doyle, born 1858,
died 1900; John E. Griffen, born 1869, died 1900.
On the north side of the
monument are the following inscriptions: John Farrell, born
1855, died 1900; William Hurley, born 1841,died 1891.
The monument bears on its
south side the inscriptions: John Smity, born 1842, died
1902; Edward Burns, born 1861, died 1903.
The monument is of Quincy
granite, and was brought from Massachusetts and erected at a
great cost. It is certainly one of the finest and most
imposing stones to be seen in the cemetery, and attracted
much admiring attention yesterday. The committee of the
Emmet association, to whose efforts is due the selection and
erection of the elegant monument, was composed of Patrick
Heaney, Patrick V. Ryan, Daniel D. Shea, Michael C. Murphy,
Thomas Copley and Patrick O’Donnell.
The committee having in
charge the exercises yesterday was John D. Malloy, Con J.
Maher, M. C. Murphy and Pat Callin.
The handsome iron monument
around the burial plot was draped with the American colors
as well as the monument itself. A tall iron Flagstaff on
the south side of the plot bore at half mast a beautiful
silk American flag. The elegant gold embroidered banner of
the Centerville division of the A.O.H. and the banner of the
local Robert Emmet society were also prominently displayed.
John D. Malloy, the chairman
of the committee of arrangements of the day, introduced the
speakers at the ceremonies, Charles Lane and Martin
Macginnis. The significance of the occasion in honor shown
to the beloved dead, and the honor of the living to
themselves in the erection of the monument which was a token
of respect for the departed was eloquently and
themselves in the erection of
the monument which was a token of respect for the departed,
was eloquently and feeling referred to by the speakers.
At the conclusion of the
addresses, at a signal, the drapery was loosened and fell
and the beautiful monument was revealed.
Pansies were planted in
profusion on the plot recently and it presents a very
attractive appearance.
The east side of the base of
the fine memorial stone bears the initials of the society—R.
E. L. A. On the south side of the shaft is a harp of Erin.
Also the base of the monument is entwined with shamrocks.
The monument was erected by James Tuite, of this city, who
secured the contract from the local association.
A number of members of the
Emmet society are not buried in this plot, but occupy graves
with other members of their families in various parts of the
Catholic cemetery. There is space in the Emmet plot for
more interments, and the names of those who may be buried
there will also be cut on the monument.
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