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Earl Percy Cafferty

Birth
Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
Death
5 Apr 1964 (aged 84)
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 112, Section 69, Space 1
Memorial ID
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Microfilmed cemetery records at the Kansas State Historical Society Archives:
#981
Cafferty, Earl P.
born: June 7, 1879, Sedgwick County, Ks.
died: April 5, 1964
residence: 1314 Buchanan
buried: April 8, 1964
cause of death: chronic arteriosclerosis
relative: Theron P. Cafferty, son
Lot 112, Section 69, Space 1
lot owner: Earl P. Cafferty
undertaker: Wall-Diffenderfer

Topeka Daily Capital, Tuesday, April 7, 1964, page 16:
Earl P. Cafferty

Services for Earl P. Cafferty, 84, 1314 Buchanan, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Wall-Diffenderfer Chapel with burial in Topeka Cemetery. He was found dead Sunday night in his room, and had apparently died of a heart attack.

Mr. Cafferty was a retired Santa Fe brakeman. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and was a member of American Legion Capitol Post No. 1.

He is survived by two sons, Theron Cafferty, St. Louis, and Willard Cafferty, of California.

Home in 1910: Topeka Ward 2, Shawnee, Kansas
Earl P Cafferty 30 Head
Grace B Cafferty, 30 Wife
(on September 19, 1919, there was an article in the Topeka Daily Capital about Miss Grace Homer, Atchison, who had charged Earl Cafferty, a brakeman for the Santa Fe, as the father of her two children, ages seven and five.)

Topeka State Journal, Thursday, Sept. 4, 1919, page 10:
Brakeman Faces Charges

Atchison Girl Says He Is Father of Her Two Children
Atchisn, Sept. 4.----------Earl Cafferty, a Santa Fe brakeman working out of Arkansas City, was brought to Atchison by W.H. Ham, sheriff, on a warrant charging failure to support two children of Miss Grace Homer, an Atchison girl. The children are Dolores, 7 years old, and Robert, 5. Miss Homer charges Cafferty became the father of the children when he had a run out of Atchison, altho he was then a married man. His wife died four years ago, and the girl testified that he promised to marry her soon afterwards. She complained to Charles T. Gundy, county attorney, when she learned Cafferty had married Miss Mabel Trumble, in Lawrence, and had located in Arkansas City. The second Mrs. Cafferty came to Atchison with her husband and visits him daily at the county jail.

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Earl Percy Cafferty
in the U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Earl Percy Cafferty
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 6 Jun 1879
Birth Place: Sedgwick, Kansas, USA
Residence Place: Topeka, Kansas, USA
Military Draft Date: 1942
Relationship to Draftee: Head
Occupation: Rogers Cafe
Height: 5 6
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Gray
Weight: 132
Complexion: Light
son, Theron P. Cafferty, in U.S. Army
no kin or friendships here
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Miss Orace Brown (Grace)
in the U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999
Name: Miss Orace Brown (Grace)
Gender: Female
Residence Date: Abt 1905
Residence Place: To peka
Marriage Date: 5 Jul 1905
Father:
C. O. Brown
Spouse:
Earl Percy Cafferty
Microfilmed cemetery records at the Kansas State Historical Society Archives:
#981
Cafferty, Earl P.
born: June 7, 1879, Sedgwick County, Ks.
died: April 5, 1964
residence: 1314 Buchanan
buried: April 8, 1964
cause of death: chronic arteriosclerosis
relative: Theron P. Cafferty, son
Lot 112, Section 69, Space 1
lot owner: Earl P. Cafferty
undertaker: Wall-Diffenderfer

Topeka Daily Capital, Tuesday, April 7, 1964, page 16:
Earl P. Cafferty

Services for Earl P. Cafferty, 84, 1314 Buchanan, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Wall-Diffenderfer Chapel with burial in Topeka Cemetery. He was found dead Sunday night in his room, and had apparently died of a heart attack.

Mr. Cafferty was a retired Santa Fe brakeman. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and was a member of American Legion Capitol Post No. 1.

He is survived by two sons, Theron Cafferty, St. Louis, and Willard Cafferty, of California.

Home in 1910: Topeka Ward 2, Shawnee, Kansas
Earl P Cafferty 30 Head
Grace B Cafferty, 30 Wife
(on September 19, 1919, there was an article in the Topeka Daily Capital about Miss Grace Homer, Atchison, who had charged Earl Cafferty, a brakeman for the Santa Fe, as the father of her two children, ages seven and five.)

Topeka State Journal, Thursday, Sept. 4, 1919, page 10:
Brakeman Faces Charges

Atchison Girl Says He Is Father of Her Two Children
Atchisn, Sept. 4.----------Earl Cafferty, a Santa Fe brakeman working out of Arkansas City, was brought to Atchison by W.H. Ham, sheriff, on a warrant charging failure to support two children of Miss Grace Homer, an Atchison girl. The children are Dolores, 7 years old, and Robert, 5. Miss Homer charges Cafferty became the father of the children when he had a run out of Atchison, altho he was then a married man. His wife died four years ago, and the girl testified that he promised to marry her soon afterwards. She complained to Charles T. Gundy, county attorney, when she learned Cafferty had married Miss Mabel Trumble, in Lawrence, and had located in Arkansas City. The second Mrs. Cafferty came to Atchison with her husband and visits him daily at the county jail.

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Earl Percy Cafferty
in the U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Earl Percy Cafferty
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 6 Jun 1879
Birth Place: Sedgwick, Kansas, USA
Residence Place: Topeka, Kansas, USA
Military Draft Date: 1942
Relationship to Draftee: Head
Occupation: Rogers Cafe
Height: 5 6
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Gray
Weight: 132
Complexion: Light
son, Theron P. Cafferty, in U.S. Army
no kin or friendships here
***************************
Miss Orace Brown (Grace)
in the U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999
Name: Miss Orace Brown (Grace)
Gender: Female
Residence Date: Abt 1905
Residence Place: To peka
Marriage Date: 5 Jul 1905
Father:
C. O. Brown
Spouse:
Earl Percy Cafferty


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