To many people here and beyond, St. Patrick’s Cemetery is sacred ground, one of the oldest resting places for ancestors who built Butte and gave it soul.
The ancestors include those well-known or well-off in their day. Frank Walker, a longtime adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt and a U.S. postmaster general, is among them. So is D. J. Hennessy, who founded a mercantile in Butte in 1886 that became a dynasty of department stores.
There are numerous priests and nuns buried there, too, and thousands of miners and ordinary folk.
“A walk around this holy ground will tell you more about the people of Butte than a week spent at the library,” said Jim Sullivan, one of 60 members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Butte.”
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