Coles County IL Archives Obituaries.....Cavanaugh, James ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bev Dobbins bosartbev@aol.com May 1999 Obituary of James CAVANAUGH, Coles County, Illinois Name of Deceased: James CAVANAUGH Name of Newspaper: Mattoon Journal-Gazette Date of Newspaper: 24 October 1932, Monday JAMES CAVANAUGH DIES; ILL 2 YEARS James Cavanaugh died in the state hospital at Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock from chronic myocarditis. He had been failing in health for about two years. The body was brought from Jacksonville by Undertaker J. B. Phillips and taken to the home of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newland, 921 Moultrie Avenue. The funeral will be held in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning, with Rev. Father Crowley of Neoga officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Mr. Cavanaugh was born in Mattoon on November 5, 1867 and lived here all of his life, with the exception of about eight years which he spent in Decatur when employed by a gas company. His wife, Mrs. Amy Cavanaugh, died 13 years ago. He leaves a brother, Jack Cavanaugh, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Cordes and Mrs. Charles Newland, all of Mattoon; a brother, Michael Cavanaugh of Decatur, and a sister, Mrs. Alice Price, of Terre Haute. http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/coles/obits/a-f/jcavnag2.txt