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 Pat Hennessey - Hennessey, OK Posted by:  hamquilter
N 36° 06.768 W 097° 54.132
14S E 598802 N 3997017
This monument honors Pat Hennessey, for whom the town is named.
Waymark Code: WMYAXC
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 05/22/2018
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In a semi-rural area northwest of the town of Hennessey, a Memorial Garden was established in 1939, to honor Pat Hennessey, an Irish freighter who was massacred on the Chisholm Trail on July 4, 1874. In the Garden is a large rock boulder which has bronze plaques that read:
This marks the place
on Chisholm Trail where,
during the Cheyenne and
Arapaho Indian Wars,
Pat Hennessey
a government freighter,
was massacred, July 4, 1874,
by white outlaws, masked
as Indians
A grave lies nearby.
The town of Hennessey
was named in his honor.
Presented to Town of Hennessey
by
Annette B. Ehler
May 30, 1941 
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Location: Pat Hennessey Memorial Gardens
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