Kenosha County WI Archives Obituaries.....Rafferty, Hugh May 17, 1925
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Kenosha Evening News, Wednesday 9 July 1919
     COUNTY PIONEER IS DEAD 
Hugh Rafferty, Sr., Aged Seventy-four Years, Dies Tuesday Afternoon at His 
Home on Prairie Avenue.

     Hugh Rafferty, Sr., for more than seventy years a resident of Kenosha 
county, died just after four o'clock Tuesday afternoon at his home at 509 
Prairie avenue at the age of seventy-four years. The deceased had been in 
failing health for several years and had been seriously ill for the past eight 
months and for this reason death was not entirely unexpected.
     Hugh Rafferty was born November 8, 1884, (sic) in New Jersey, the son of 
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rafferty, two of the earliest settlers in the town of 
Brighton. When two years old he came with his parents to the town of Brighton 
where he lived for more than sixty years, and where he was one of the best 
known and progressive farmers of that vicinity. About ten years ago he retired 
and since that time he has made his home in Kenosha.
     On October 18, 1876, at the St. Alphonse Church in the town of New 
Munster he was married to Miss Bridget Pennefeather and to this happy union 
seven children were born, all of whom with the widow survive the deceased. The 
surviving children are: Mrs. J.T. Gorman, of Kansasville; Mrs. B.F. Stahl, of 
Kenosha; Henry Rafferty, of Darien, Wisconsin; Mrs. W.B. Riley, of Cleveland; 
and Frank, Hugh and Miss Kathleen Rafferty of Kenosha. He is also survived by 
one sister, Miss Margaret Rafferty of Burlington, and by eleven grandchildren. 
His death likewise comes as a personal sorrow to his many friends in Kenosha 
county who knew him as a man of sterling character and a true friend.
     The funeral services will be held on Friday morning at ten o'clock at the 
St. James Church after which interment will be made in the family plot at the 
St. James cemetery. 



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