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Capt. Jack McCaffrey - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, September 6, 1957

Capt. Jack McCaffrey, Prominent Tallulah Citizen Dies Tuesday Morning After Lengthy illness

Captain Jack McCaffrey, 81, for many years owner of the McCaffrey Hotel, died early Tuesday morning 
after a lengthy illness.

Capt. Jack, as he was known by his many friends, was a prominent citizen and a former colorful retired 
steamboat captain for many years.

For many years he operated the Steamer Natchez, Steamer Cairo, and the Steamer Memphis on the waters of 
the Mississippi River before retirement years ago. For six years during the 1920s Capt. Jack operated an 
excursion boat on the Hudson River in New York, and in 1922 he piloted an excursion boat, "The Morning Star" 
from Davenport, Iowa to New Orleans. It has been reported that Capt. Jack had piloted just about every 
kind of boat known on the Mississippi River before he retired. In the I920's he made a trip to South America 
in search of pearl shells for the manufacture of a certain kind of pearl button.

He attended Northwestern University of Chicago and Notre Dame before embarking on the adventurous life 
of a steamboat captain.

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.

Services were held at the Trinity Episcopal Church Wednesday morning with the Rev. William S. Spilman officiating. 
Burial followed in Silver Cross Cemetery under the direction of Young's Funeral Home.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Emily Smith McCaffrey, and two nieces, Mrs. J. C. Brown, San Diego, Calif., 
and Mrs. A. R. Bailie, Davenport, Iowa. (RPS note: at one time Captain Jack was married to Hollywood gossip 
columnist Louella Parsons.)

Pallbearers were W. P. Sevier, Jr., W. H. Erickson, C. E. Hester, H. C. Massey, Barton Sevier, E. C. Woodyear,  
Don Sevier and Russell Sprague.

Honorary pallbearers were members of the Vestry of the Episcopal Church and all friends of the family.