Black Jack Kehoe
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John Kehoe (1837 - 1878)

John (Black Jack) "King of the Mollie McGuires" Kehoe
Born in County Wicklow, Irelandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Died at age 41 in Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United Statesmap
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Ireland Native
Black Jack Kehoe was born in Ireland.
This profile is part of the Pennsylvania Coal Region One Place Study.

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Biography

John "Black Jack" Kehoe, [1]

Georgetown Courier, February 28, 1879
"The body was given to the Undertaker and taken to Shenandoah.
With Jack Kehoe died the guiltiest of all the Mollie McGuire's."
"His wife tried to get him off."


"EXCERPT From the "The Mollie McGuires"
"Despite the conflict of interest, Gowen served as the chief prosecutor during the subsequent trials. Based almost entirely on McParlan’s testimony, 20 men were sentenced to death—10 of whom were executed on June 21, 1877, also known as Black Thursday. Although the existence of the Molly Maguires as an organized band of outlaws in America is still debated, most historians now agree that the trials and executions were an outrageous perversion of the criminal justice system. In 1979, more than 100 years following his hanging, John Kehoe—the supposed “king” of the Molly Maguires—was granted a full pardon by the state of Pennsylvania."

Headstone Inscription

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN KEHOE
A Native of the
County Wicklow
IRELAND
Died Dec. 18, 1878
Aged 41 Yrs 5 Mos & 15 Ds
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE
WHILST IN THIS SILENT GRAVE I SLEEP
MY SOUL TO GOD I GIVE TO KEEP

Children's Data

Pennsylvania, County Marriages
Name Joseph H Kehoe
Event Date 15 Mar 1921
Event Place , Schuyl, Pennsylvania, United States
Event Place Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States
Age 51
Marital Status Married
Birth Year (Estimated) 1870
Father's Name John Kehoe
Mother's Name Mary A Mcdonnel Kehoe
Spouse's Name Kathryn Finnegan
Spouse's Age 45
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1876
Spouse's Father's Name Anthony Finnegan
Spouse's Mother's Name Catharine Murphy Finnegan
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Citing this Record

Research Note

NOTE: This date of death is based on the newspaper article attached, guess it took 2 months for the news to reach Colorado from Pennsylvania................
So I changed it to match the headstone (28 Feb 1879)

Sources


  1. Hanging
  2. History of the Mollie McGuires
  3. Find A Grave: Memorial #5086108
  4. "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMZM-8D9 : 11 March 2018), John Kehoe in entry for Joseph H Kehoe and Kathryn Finnegan, 1921.




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Does any WikiTreer have info on his origins, or a primary source for emigration from

Co Wicklow? There are many other Kehoe/Keough families across Leinster beyond Wicklow.

Other LNAB spellings for Kehoe include Keogh, Keough, Keugh, K'Eogh, MacKeough, Mc or Mac Keough etc all deriving phonetically from the original Gaelic name MacEochaidh ie. son/descendants of one of these guys:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eochaid

Separately, do we know why some sources give this man the surname King? (Is it possible Kehoe was his mother's name ie his middle name?)

posted by NN Taylor
Kehoe-271 and Kehoe-497 appear to represent the same person because: hi, the date of death is different but I took mine from the newspaper article attached to the profile. Thank you.
posted by Carole Taylor

Rejected matches › Jack KeoghJohn J Kehoe (abt.1836-)