"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

A new year, a new life

On December 30, 1919 Henry Joseph Doyle married a local farmer’s daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Rogers, from the Old Town, Moneydarraghmore.
 

As Henry Joseph Doyle entered his first year of marriage and his new life - time was running out for the miners of Butte.  Perhaps as he 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 Harry Joe’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:

"No member of I.W.W. will be employed at this property."

Sarah’s brother, Patrick Joseph Rogers, who had worked and boarded with Harry Joe 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………

In Memory:  Henry Joseph Doyle (1878-1965)
Dreamer, Patriot, Adventurer, Romantic, and Honorable Irishman