Several days ago, I wrote a post about my great grandfather David Lyman Blacker and his successful mining endeavors. Continue reading
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David Lyman Blacker: A Short Sketch of His Life and Road to Montana
David Lyman Blacker arrived in Virginia City, Montana in 1864 – during the exciting early days of the Montana gold rush, probably via the Montana Trail. By 1866, he and his business partner, David Keating, had discovered the Keating Lode two miles northwest of Radersburg. Several years later, they were also mining the Leviathan and Ohio Lodes, and had built a 15-stamp mill in order to process the many tons of rock being taken out of the mines.
In 1871, David married Ada Cordelia Buchenau in Wathena, Kansas, and brought her back to the Montana Territory where they made their first home in Radersburg. In 1873, the Helena Weekly Herald reported that “very few men in all the mines of America have a “better thing” than have Messrs. Keating & Blacker” [1]. Later that same year, David and Ada welcomed the first baby into their family, a little girl named Muzetta. She was the first of five children born to the couple between 1873 and 1889.
Tombstone Tuesday: Catherine “Kate” (Myers) Kieron and Infant Baby
Kate
Wife of
Joseph Kieron
Died Aug. 4, 1902
Aged 28 years.
Also Infant Baby
Aged 2 Days
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This is a view of St. Patrick’s Cemetery in Butte, Montana, looking north from Kate’s grave.
“Tombstone Tuesday” is a Geneabloggers daily blogging prompt.
Kate (Myers) Kieron: A Short Sketch of Her Life and Road to Montana
I can only imagine the bittersweet feelings Kate must have felt when she left her home in Ireland in 1895, to travel to the United States. She must have been thrilled knowing she would soon see her beloved sister Delia who had left Ireland for the United States several years earlier – and excited for the prospects of her new life in America . At the same time, her heart must have been broken, knowing she would never again see her homeland and some of the family members she was leaving behind.
My great grandmother Catherine “Kate” Myers was born in Ower Townland, County Galway, Ireland – sometime between 1864 and 1877(1). She was one of nine children born to John Myres and Nora Hennelly between 1862 and 1879. Life was difficult on a small farm in Ireland and there weren’t many prospects for John and Nora, much less their offspring.