Kenosha County WI Archives Obituaries.....O'Hare, Bernard "Barney" December 9, 1902
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Kenosha Evening News, 10&11 Mar 1903
     GAVE UP IT'S DEAD 
Body of an Unknown Man is Found Floating in the Lake Late This Afternoon by 
Hoffnung's Crew. 
     REMAINS ARE NOT IDENTIFIED. 
Dress of the Man Seems to Indicate That He Was a Tramp and Probably Committed 
Suicide
     Shortly before three o'clock this afternoon the remains of an unknown man 
were taken from the lake on Washington Island by Captain Cameron of the Life 
Saving Crew, Captain L.N. DeDiemar of the Light House, and Coroner Frank 
Lansdowne.
     The remains were those of a man some fifty years of age, and they had 
been in the lake so long that it was impossible for them to be identified. 
They were removed to the Hansen morgue and prepared for burial. but they will 
be held for a few hours in order to allow the friends of the dead man a chance 
to claim them.
     The ghastly find was made by the crew of the tug Hoffnung just as the tug 
was returning from the trip out to lift the nets. At this time the remains 
were floating in the lake just outside of the piers. The Life Saving Station 
was hurriedly notified and the members of the tug's crew secured a rope, which 
was fastened about the decayed body and it was towed inside the harbor piers.
     At this point the Coroner and Life Saving Captain took a hand in the 
matter and taking the rope from the tug the remains were towed along the pier 
for several hundred yards on account of the fact that they were so decayed 
that it would have been impossible to have lifted them to the top of the docks.
     The remains were finally pulled to shore just off the city property at 
the poor house. The condition of the man was so terrible that it was almost 
impossible to tell anything of his identity. The body had bloated fearfully. 
The remains were those of a man fifty-five years of age. He was dressed in the 
apparel of a laboring man.
     He wore a red sweater and a pair of cheap striped trousers. His coat had 
evidently been washed away by the waves. Much of his hair was also gone, but 
it was possible to see that it had been of a dark color.
     A heavy red mustasche was the most distinguishing mark on the remains. 
Captain Cameron stated that the remains had probably been in the water for 
more than five months and that they did not tally with descriptions of any one 
who had been reported missing from this port.
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Kenosha Evening News, Wednesday 11 Mar 1903, Kenosha, WI.

     WAS BARNEY O'HARE.
Remains Found Floating in the Lake Were Those of a Well Known Kenosha 
Character.
     MISSING FOR MANY MONTHS. 
Remains are Positively Identified by Mrs. O'Hare and the Daughters of the Man--
Details of Death a Mystery

     The badly decomposed body found floating in the lake on Tuesday afternoon 
by the crew of the tug Hoffnung has been identified as the remains of Barney 
O'Hare, a well known character about the city, who has been missing from his 
home since the ninth of December, and it is supposed that he met death in the 
lake about that time. The remains of O'Hare were positively identified at the 
Hansen morgue this morning by Mrs. O'Hare and four of the daughters of the 
deceased.
     After the remains were taken from the lake to the morgue Tuesday several 
people dropped into the morgue to view them, among others being John O'Hare, a 
nephew of the missing man. He was at once struck with the appearance of the 
remains and declared that they were those of his uncle.
     The identification was made more complete by the discovery that the 
corpse still wore a rubber shoe which had been used on account of an injury to 
the leg. In order to complete the identification the widow and children were 
sent for this morning and on their claiming the body it was turned over to 
them.
     The details of the death of O'Hare will always remain a mystery, as no 
one seems to know how he reached his last resting place in the lake. Mrs. 
O'Hare in speaking about the matter stated that her husband had given up his 
work at the Chicago-Rockford Hosiery Works on December 8th, and had planned to 
go to a hospital for treatment on the following day. He went away on that day, 
and this was the last seen of him until the remains were found.
     Mrs. O'Hare stated that she had not worried about his absence as she 
thought that he was working on a farm in the town of Pleasant Prairie, and 
that he often went out there to work and failed to return for several weeks. 
She said that she began to distrust on last Sunday, but that she had made no 
report to the police of the matter. O'Hare, when he met his death, wore the 
same clothes that he had on when he left his home, and it appears from the 
condition of the remains that he must have fallen into the lake soon after 
leaving home. There is no reason to suspect that he met with foul play, as his 
purse containing $2.80 was found in his pocket.
     The deceased was a man forty-eight years of age. He was a son of the late 
Patrick O'Hare, one of the pioneer settlers of the town of Pleasant Prairie, 
where the son was born. Most of his life had been spent in Kenosha.
     He is survived by a widow and five daughters. Announcement of the date of 
the funeral will be made tomorrow.
     The inquest over the remains was held at the morgue this morning, and the 
jury returned a verdict that O'Hare came to his death by drowning, the result 
of an accident.


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