The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-12
mrs. c. GAFFNEY,
NEWARKER OF OLD
DAYS, LAID At REST
FRsquiem Mass Is Sung for Re-
spected Resident at the
! Cathedral.
WAS MEMBER OF WELL
KNOWN CARR FAMILY
IA Graduate of Old Newark Acad-
envy and One of the Oldest
Catholics in the City.

Funera services were held this morn
ing in st. Patrlck's Cathedral for Mrs.
Catherine Gaffney, who died Sunday
at her home, 211 Plane street. A solemn
high mass Of requiem was sung by the
Rev. John r. Herman, with the Rev.
William P. Brennan as deacon. The
quartet of the cathedral choir sang the
music of the mass. and after the body
was blessed Mrs. Sarah Martin-Grib-
ben, soprano soloist. sang. There Is
q. Green Hill Far Away" a favorite
of the late Monsignor George Hobart
Roane, for whom Mrs. P. F. Mulligan,
eldest daughter OF Mrs. Gaffney, named
one of her sons.
Representatives. of old Catholic and
Irish and American families. including
former United States Senator James
Smith, jr., IN old friend, called at the
Gaffney home yesterday and last night
and were at the services in the cathe-
oral. There were no honorary pail
bearers, the black cloth-covered burial
casket being borne by six cerriers. In
terment was made in the Cemetery of
the Holy Sepulchre in the Mulligan
plot.
Old Home n Landmark.
Mrs. Gaffney was born in the old
stone house that stood at the north
west corner of Plane and Nesbitt
streets, now Central avenue. for many,
years. and was a landmark until it
was torn down. She was born Feb
-. a 1000 L.. ~ Inhrt
Carr and Mary Boyce, who came from
Ireland to the United States in 1910
and settled in Newark. then a small
town, and Mr.. a bought a farm
on which was the old house.
The Carr farm extended north to the
burying ground of the Second Presby-
terrain Church, near what is now James
street, and south of the Carr property
was a farm owned by the father of
Lawyer Charles Borcherling. East of
that was the farm cf the father Of the
late Governor Marcus l.. Ward, who
was a war Governor of New Jersey in
the Civil War, and was widely known
as "The Soldiers Friend" st Patrick's
Cathedral is on a part of the old Ward
fam
John Carr and his brother Philip
were shoemakers, and the latter did
an extensive shoe business. Miss Carr
was baptiZed in old ST. Johns Church
in Mulberry street by the Rev. Father
Pardue. one of the first priests to say
mass regularly in Newark, and she was
educated in the old Newark Academy,
which was then on the site of the
present ~postofice building. The girls
entered the academy through one door
and the boys through another door,
and they were separated in the study
rooms. In 1851 Miss Carr was married
10 Peter L. Gatfney, who died long ago,
by the Rev. Father Senez. the first
DE stor of st. Patrick's Church.
sons Death a Heavy Blow.
After the death of her son, DR.. Will
lam r Gaffney, two years ago last
April, Mrs. Gaffney steadily failed in
health until the end came. She is sur
vived by three daughters, Mrs. p. f.
Mulligan, Miss Catherine Gaffney and
Miss Ella v. Gaffney, and one SON,
John Gaffney, of Ncwburg, N. Y. or
her eight grandchildren three are
James Roosevelt Mulligan, George
Doane Mulligan and Mary F. Mulligan,
Mrs. P. F. Mulligan, eldest child of Mrs.
Gaffney, has at her home, corner of