James T. Cassavaugh

James and Lillian Cassavaugh (undated)
Courtesy of Katie Cassavaugh

Born: July 3, 1906

Died: December 8, 1962

Married: Lillian Pearson

Children: Edward G. Cassavaugh,  James H. Cassavaugh, Walter W. Cassavaugh, Francis L. Cassavaugh, Charles E. Cassavaugh, Paul A. Cassavaugh, Mrs. Helen D'Avignon, Mrs. Hazel Fitzsimmons, Lillian R. Cassavaugh

James T. Cassavaugh, of Bloomingdale, was a lumberjack.

---

Adirondack Daily Enterprise, 14 December 1962

James Cassavaugh

James T. Cassavaugh, 56, of the Bloomingdale road, Saranac Lake died Thursday morning at Roswell Park Memorial Hospital in Buffalo where he had been a patient for three months. Mr. Cassavaugh was born July 3, 1906 in Saranac Lake. He was a lumberjack.

Survivors are his wife, the former Lillian Pearson; six sons, Edward G. of Parnell. Mo., Capt. James H. of the Air Force in New Mexico, Walter W. of Bloomingdale, Airman second Class Francis L. of McGuire Air Force Base, N. J., Charles E. of Saranac Lake and Paul A. of Brockport State University College; and three daughters, Mrs. Helen D'Avignon of Asmara, Ethiopia, Mrs. Hazel Fitzsimmons of Tonawanda and Miss Lillian R. of Saranac Lake. He also leaves seven grandchildren and three sisters, Mrs. Vincent Callaghan and Mrs. Archie Ormsby of Saranac Lake and Miss Nell of Malone.

Friends may call at the Fortune Funeral Home starting Saturday. A Funeral Mass has been set tentatively for Monday

Adirondack Daily Enterprise, February 18, 1958, Ode To Harry Harry was a horse . . . a good worker . . . and today he is dead. Nothing looks more out of place than a good-sized horse like Harry was, lying on the snow-covered sidewalk with the life gone out of him and still hooked to his wooden plow. The kids were beginning to gather around him and cars slowed down to get a better look at the brown horse whose last breath had gone out of him while pulling his plow on Boadway. Harry's job was to help get the village streets cleaned and passable after the record snowfall of Saturday and Sunday while Jim Cassavaugh guided the reins. The size of the drifts and banks must have been too much for Harry who was getting  old and kind of footweary anyway. He was 12. But there is certainly no finer tribute to men OR horse than to say he died on the job . . . so we're saying that much about Harry. Courtesy of Katie Cassavaugh.