WI BIO - Kenosha Co - RILEY, Catherine, Mrs.

History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western 
Historical, 1879, p 724

Mrs. Catherine RILEY, farmer, Section 14, Brighton Township, Kenosha County, 
Wisconsin, P. O. Brighton, was born in County Meath, Ireland. The former 
Miss Catherine SIMONS married in October 1841 in New York City, Mr. Hugh 
RILEY, who was born in 1797 in County Meath, Ireland. Shortly after marriage 
they came to Brighton Township, where he located and engaged in farming, an 
occupation he [Hugh RILEY] industriously followed up to within a few months 
of his death in December 1876. He had accumulated a valuable property.

Hugh and Catherine (SIMONS) RILEY had five children: (1) Mary, born 25 
October 1842; (2) Richard, born 04 November 1844, who died in September 
1861; (3) Margaret, born 04 October 1846; (4) Anna, born 20 April 1849; and 
(5) James, born 15 September 1852. They own 115 acres of fertile land in 
Brighton, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, with commodious barns and a comfortable 
house. Mrs. RILEY has been a member of the Brighton Roman Catholic Church 
ever since its organization, and her husband was one the foremost in the 
organization and building of the Church.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly