George Cassidy (1924)

CASSIDAY, CASSIDY, HAMILTON, JONES, PARKER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 8/14/2009 at 11:48:12

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 19, 1924

Death of George Cassiday

George Cassiday, an early resident of Winterset, who returned to make his home here about two years ago, passed away at the city hospital on Monday evening.

He was the son of Hugh Cassiday, who came to Winterset in the early fifties. For many years he was a traveling salesman for a hardware firm in Des Moines.

The funeral was held this afternoon at 2:30 in the Presbyterian church, burial being made in the Winterset cemetery.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 26, 1924
Page 6, Columns 3 & 4

George Cassidy was born April 1, 1852, in Zanesville, Ohio, and came to Iowa with his family in 1864. He was converted and joined the Presbyterian church under Rev. A. M. Heizer, who was pastor here from 1864 to 1867. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. He was a member of this church to the end.

He was married in 1878 at St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Alice Parker. After ten years’ residence in Winterset, they resided in Des Moines, where Mr. Cassidy was a traveling man for a hardware firm for 18 years, and also was a mail clerk in the government railway service. For eight years they lived in Oregon on his fruit farm and three years ago they returned to Winterset, where they have since made their home and where Mr. Cassidy passed away after a long, continued illness at the Winterset hospital on June 17th.

He was one of the charter members and a state officer in the Christian traveling men’s association, The Gideons. He was active in the temperance cause and especially interested in the young people of the church and Sabbath school.

He was one of six children, of whom only two are now living, Mrs. Margaret Jones of Winterset and L. L. Cassidy of Des Moines. He also leaves his wife, Mrs. Alice Cassidy and two children: Mrs. Eva Hamilton of Ontario, Canada, and Robert Cassidy of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church Thursday afternoon with an address by Rev. L. C. Cooley, D. D., and interment was in Rock City cemetery.

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