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From: "Charles P. Jester" <>
Subject: [HACKETT-L] Tipperary Hacketts
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 23:10:29 -0400


Re: Tipperary Hacketts

Patrick Joseph Hackett (b. Oct 1840) County Tipperary
m. October 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee
Mary Ellen [ ? ] Lane, a widow with two daughters, Kate
and Mary Ellen. Mary Ellen also from Tipperary. Allegedly met
on the boat coming over
had: Richard b. 1867 - presumed to have died in infancy
James b. 1869 - married Annie [ ? ] and had one daughter
Mary Ellen b. 1871 - married Jeremiah Ellsworth Johnson
Josephine b. 1874 - married Louis Busler

after the death of Mary Ellen he remarried Ella Boone and had Patrick
Joseph Hackett, Jr.(b. 1890) who at his death was the chief plumbing
inspector and also the treasurer of the plumbers union. Such was the order
of things in the days of Boss Crump.

in 1868 he was a Teamster. In 1870 he joined the Memphis Police at the time
of its founding. Made sargeant and captain in 1880. Left the force in
1898, apparently after backing the wrong candidate for mayor. Had
relatives in Saint Louis, Mo. Died 1902.

>From the Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 16, 1897:
"At 2 am this morning it was reported that a man had been shot in Kurts and
Quinn's saloon, which is better known as the "store" located on Monroe in
Memphis, but Captain Hackett, who made an investigation from Police
Headquarters, said it was a flse alarm. What happened was an accidental
discharge of a drunk man's pistol."

Patrick's specific townland origins not yet discovered.

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