TALLULAH (Special) — Final rites were held early today for Jack McCaffrey, 84 [sic 81], second husband of Hollywood movie columnist Louella Parsons. He was a retired riverboat captain.
Captain McCaffrey died yesterday. A prominent local man, he was the husband of Louella from 1914 until 1920. The marriage ended in divorce.
Captain Jack, as he was locally known, started steamboating after college days at Northwestern University at Chicago and Notre Dame and an excursion to South America in search of pearl shells to be used for manufacturing buttons.
He married Louella when he was a bachelor in 1914 and they honeymooned at Gulfport, La., a small town near Vicksburg. Mrs. Parsons, whose first husband died, left her daughter, Harriet, then 11 years of age, with friends of Captain Jack. A person who knew the couple said Louella was about 30 years old then.
The couple never resided in Tallulah or surrounding area but were sometimes visitor since McCaffrey's family owned large plantations near here.
Louella was just getting a toehold in newspaper then, it was reported, working on a Chicago paper and a New York paper. The couple lived in New York where it is believed they were divorced about 1920.
In the 1920's Capt. Jack made a South American trip and during that period he was captain of an excursion book on the Hudson River in New York and in 1922 he piloted the excursion boat, "The Morning Star" from Davenport, Iowa, to New Orleans.
It is generally believed the town of Davenport was named for his grandmother's forefathers.
Captain Jack operated the Steamer Natchez, Steamer Cairo and the Steamer Memphis on the Mississippi River before his retirement 10 years ago.
He married his widow, the former Miss Emily Smith, of New Orleans, about 11 years ago. At one time he operated the McCaffrey Hotel in Tallulah.
He was a native of LeCalere [sic LeClaire], Iowa.
Services were held at 9 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church with Rev. William S. Spillman officiating. Burial followed in Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction of Youngs Funeral Home.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Emily Smith McCaffrey and two nieces, Mrs. J. C. Brown, San Diego, Calif., Mrs. A. R. Bailie, Davenport, Iowa.
He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church and a former vestryman; member of the Rotary Club, the Tallulah Country Club and the Madison Parish Chamber of Commerce.
Pallbearers were W. P. Sevier, Jr., W. H. Erickson, C. E. Hester, H. C. Massey, Barton Sevier, E. C. Woodyear, Don Sevier, Russell Sprague. Honorary pallbearers are members of the Vestry of the Episcopal church and all friends of the family.
Published in The Monroe News-Star (LA), Wednesday, September 4, 1957
Captain McCaffrey died yesterday. A prominent local man, he was the husband of Louella from 1914 until 1920. The marriage ended in divorce.
Captain Jack, as he was locally known, started steamboating after college days at Northwestern University at Chicago and Notre Dame and an excursion to South America in search of pearl shells to be used for manufacturing buttons.
He married Louella when he was a bachelor in 1914 and they honeymooned at Gulfport, La., a small town near Vicksburg. Mrs. Parsons, whose first husband died, left her daughter, Harriet, then 11 years of age, with friends of Captain Jack. A person who knew the couple said Louella was about 30 years old then.
The couple never resided in Tallulah or surrounding area but were sometimes visitor since McCaffrey's family owned large plantations near here.
Louella was just getting a toehold in newspaper then, it was reported, working on a Chicago paper and a New York paper. The couple lived in New York where it is believed they were divorced about 1920.
In the 1920's Capt. Jack made a South American trip and during that period he was captain of an excursion book on the Hudson River in New York and in 1922 he piloted the excursion boat, "The Morning Star" from Davenport, Iowa, to New Orleans.
It is generally believed the town of Davenport was named for his grandmother's forefathers.
Captain Jack operated the Steamer Natchez, Steamer Cairo and the Steamer Memphis on the Mississippi River before his retirement 10 years ago.
He married his widow, the former Miss Emily Smith, of New Orleans, about 11 years ago. At one time he operated the McCaffrey Hotel in Tallulah.
He was a native of LeCalere [sic LeClaire], Iowa.
Services were held at 9 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church with Rev. William S. Spillman officiating. Burial followed in Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction of Youngs Funeral Home.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Emily Smith McCaffrey and two nieces, Mrs. J. C. Brown, San Diego, Calif., Mrs. A. R. Bailie, Davenport, Iowa.
He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church and a former vestryman; member of the Rotary Club, the Tallulah Country Club and the Madison Parish Chamber of Commerce.
Pallbearers were W. P. Sevier, Jr., W. H. Erickson, C. E. Hester, H. C. Massey, Barton Sevier, E. C. Woodyear, Don Sevier, Russell Sprague. Honorary pallbearers are members of the Vestry of the Episcopal church and all friends of the family.
Published in The Monroe News-Star (LA), Wednesday, September 4, 1957
TALLULAH (Special) — Final rites were held early today for Jack McCaffrey, 84 [sic 81], second husband of Hollywood movie columnist Louella Parsons. He was a retired riverboat captain.
Captain McCaffrey died yesterday. A prominent local man, he was the husband of Louella from 1914 until 1920. The marriage ended in divorce.
Captain Jack, as he was locally known, started steamboating after college days at Northwestern University at Chicago and Notre Dame and an excursion to South America in search of pearl shells to be used for manufacturing buttons.
He married Louella when he was a bachelor in 1914 and they honeymooned at Gulfport, La., a small town near Vicksburg. Mrs. Parsons, whose first husband died, left her daughter, Harriet, then 11 years of age, with friends of Captain Jack. A person who knew the couple said Louella was about 30 years old then.
The couple never resided in Tallulah or surrounding area but were sometimes visitor since McCaffrey's family owned large plantations near here.
Louella was just getting a toehold in newspaper then, it was reported, working on a Chicago paper and a New York paper. The couple lived in New York where it is believed they were divorced about 1920.
In the 1920's Capt. Jack made a South American trip and during that period he was captain of an excursion book on the Hudson River in New York and in 1922 he piloted the excursion boat, "The Morning Star" from Davenport, Iowa, to New Orleans.
It is generally believed the town of Davenport was named for his grandmother's forefathers.
Captain Jack operated the Steamer Natchez, Steamer Cairo and the Steamer Memphis on the Mississippi River before his retirement 10 years ago.
He married his widow, the former Miss Emily Smith, of New Orleans, about 11 years ago. At one time he operated the McCaffrey Hotel in Tallulah.
He was a native of LeCalere [sic LeClaire], Iowa.
Services were held at 9 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church with Rev. William S. Spillman officiating. Burial followed in Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction of Youngs Funeral Home.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Emily Smith McCaffrey and two nieces, Mrs. J. C. Brown, San Diego, Calif., Mrs. A. R. Bailie, Davenport, Iowa.
He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church and a former vestryman; member of the Rotary Club, the Tallulah Country Club and the Madison Parish Chamber of Commerce.
Pallbearers were W. P. Sevier, Jr., W. H. Erickson, C. E. Hester, H. C. Massey, Barton Sevier, E. C. Woodyear, Don Sevier, Russell Sprague. Honorary pallbearers are members of the Vestry of the Episcopal church and all friends of the family.
Published in The Monroe News-Star (LA), Wednesday, September 4, 1957
Captain McCaffrey died yesterday. A prominent local man, he was the husband of Louella from 1914 until 1920. The marriage ended in divorce.
Captain Jack, as he was locally known, started steamboating after college days at Northwestern University at Chicago and Notre Dame and an excursion to South America in search of pearl shells to be used for manufacturing buttons.
He married Louella when he was a bachelor in 1914 and they honeymooned at Gulfport, La., a small town near Vicksburg. Mrs. Parsons, whose first husband died, left her daughter, Harriet, then 11 years of age, with friends of Captain Jack. A person who knew the couple said Louella was about 30 years old then.
The couple never resided in Tallulah or surrounding area but were sometimes visitor since McCaffrey's family owned large plantations near here.
Louella was just getting a toehold in newspaper then, it was reported, working on a Chicago paper and a New York paper. The couple lived in New York where it is believed they were divorced about 1920.
In the 1920's Capt. Jack made a South American trip and during that period he was captain of an excursion book on the Hudson River in New York and in 1922 he piloted the excursion boat, "The Morning Star" from Davenport, Iowa, to New Orleans.
It is generally believed the town of Davenport was named for his grandmother's forefathers.
Captain Jack operated the Steamer Natchez, Steamer Cairo and the Steamer Memphis on the Mississippi River before his retirement 10 years ago.
He married his widow, the former Miss Emily Smith, of New Orleans, about 11 years ago. At one time he operated the McCaffrey Hotel in Tallulah.
He was a native of LeCalere [sic LeClaire], Iowa.
Services were held at 9 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church with Rev. William S. Spillman officiating. Burial followed in Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction of Youngs Funeral Home.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Emily Smith McCaffrey and two nieces, Mrs. J. C. Brown, San Diego, Calif., Mrs. A. R. Bailie, Davenport, Iowa.
He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church and a former vestryman; member of the Rotary Club, the Tallulah Country Club and the Madison Parish Chamber of Commerce.
Pallbearers were W. P. Sevier, Jr., W. H. Erickson, C. E. Hester, H. C. Massey, Barton Sevier, E. C. Woodyear, Don Sevier, Russell Sprague. Honorary pallbearers are members of the Vestry of the Episcopal church and all friends of the family.
Published in The Monroe News-Star (LA), Wednesday, September 4, 1957
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Parents: John McCaffrey and Sarah Jane Davenport McCaffrey. The 1900 census (Scott County, IA) gives March 1875 as his birth month/year. Father link provided by Marie Ward Mills (#47707594).
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