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A new year, a new life
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"In good times and bad times in sickness
and health
may they know that riches are not needed for wealth
and help them face problems they'll meet on their way
Oh god bless this couple who married today"
Ian Betteridge
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On December 30, 1919 he married a local farmer’s daughter,
Sarah Elizabeth Rogers, from Moneydarragh. As Henry J. entered his first
year of marriage and his new life - time was running out for the miners
of Butte.
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sat with Sarah Elizabeth, in their home on Newcastle St., Kilkeel he read of the strike that
resulted in the "Bloody Wednesday" massacre of April 21, 1920.
The
riot and the killings took place on Anaconda Road, just yards from Henry’s old boarding
house on East Copper St. Finally in May 1920, the Company banned
I.W.W.
members from the mines. Signs were posted that read |
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"No member of I.W.W. will
be employed at this property." |
| Sarah’s
brother, Patrick Joseph Rogers, who
had worked and boarded with Henry J. in Butte,
chose to stay in the United States. After quitting the mine, he headed to the Ford
Motor Car Company in Detroit, Michigan. But
that’s another story for another time………..
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