Mary Winfred Cavellier
aka May Cavelier
January 21, 1885 – April 17, 1920
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Oswego Daily Palladium DECEMBER WEDDINGS Miss Cavellier the Bride of Charles Burriss Penfield. At St. Mary’s church yesterday afternoon at five o’clock, the Rev. Father Farrar officiating, occurred the marriage of Charles Burriss Penfield and Miss May Winfred Cavellier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus Cavellier, 59 West Third Street. After a wedding supper at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Penfield left for New York. They will be home after December 15th, at 59 West Third Street. |
Records of Marriages Date of Marriage December 7, 1903 performed by Rev. John W. Farrar
Certificate of Marriage from St. Mary’s Church, Oswego, New York, December 7, 1903. Witnesses were Carl E. Cavellier and Amy Cavellier. (Need to fit them into the family tree!) |
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Buffalo Courier Sunday April 18, 1920 WOMAN KILLED BY GAS EXPLOSION Dies Shortly After Being Found by Firemen. Mrs May Cavellier, thirty five years of No. 78 Days Park, was killed yesterday morning in an explosion which wrecked a ‘cleaning’ and dyeing store at No. 224 Allen Street, where she was employed as a clerk. The woman was alive when found by firemen, but she died a few minutes later. Deputy Medical Examiner Charles E. Long issued a certificate of accidental death. Police said that the expansion of fumes in a gasoline tank in the store caused the explosion. Fire started in several parts of the building after the explosion, bit it was easily extinguished by firemen. Police estimate damage at $3,500. The store was conducted by Mrs Mabel Kasaros. She said that Mrs. Cavellier had been employed there only three weeks. The dead woman resided with her brother, M.F. Cavellier. |
Buffalo Evening Times Saturday April 17, 1920 REPORT WOMAN BURNED ALIVE Police of the Tenth Precinct were called to investigate the death of an unidentified woman who was burned to death in a dyeing and cleaning establishment at No. 224 Allen Street shortly before noon today. A meager phone call informed the police of the fatality and the address of the dyeing and cleaning store, and specials were sent to investigate. The woman is believed to be May Cavalier, 25 years old of Nr. 78 Days Park employed in the dyeing establishment of Mabel Kazaro. The latter is on the ground floor of a two story brick structure and a woman across the street saw the Cavalier woman working in front of the stove a few minutes before the explosion. Damage of $2,000 was caused by the fire which followed the explosion. |
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The Buffalo Enquirer Saturday April 17, 1920 FIND WOMAN’S CHARRED BODY May Cavelier, No. 78 Days Park, Fatally Burned in Blaze Following Gasoline Explosion at Allen Street Tailor Shop May Cavelier, 25 years old, No 78 Day’s park, was burned to death this morning when a gas explosion set fire to the dyeing and cleaning establishment of Mabel Kazaros at No. 224 Allen street. The explosion partially wrecked the two story brick building and the fire that followed caused damage of $3,700. Police and Medical Examiner Danser are investigating the cause of the explosion. Miss Cavalier was alone in the store at the time. Neighbors saw her sitting at a desk near the front window. Suddenly they heard the explosion and saw the flames coming from the shop. A boy turned in an alarm at Allen and College streets. Frank Diemer, of Engine No. 2, went into the building and carried the charred body of the young woman to the street. Firemen confined the fire to the cleaning shop but the poultry market of James Valentine and the apartments of Thomas Rogers, owner of the building, and Charles Taylor were slightly damaged. |
The Illustrated Buffalo Express Sunday April 18, 1920 . . . death of woman Unable to learn cause of blast, heat of room is thought to have ignited gasoline. May Cavellier, 25 years old, of No. 78 Days park was burned to death yesterday morning in an explosion that tore out the front of the clothes cleaning and pressing store of John Kazaros at No.224 Allen street where she was employed as clerk. The blast hurled her into a corner of the room and she died within a few minutes after being rescued by firemen. Dr. Charles E. Long, the county medical examiner, learned that there was a gasoline container standing in the shop about ten feet from a gas stove beside which Miss Cavellier had been seated. It is thought that the heat in the room caused an explosion of the gasoline. Flames broke out in several places, but were quickly extinguished. Thomas Rodgers owns the building and occupies the flat above the shop. The damage is estimated at $3,500. Kazaros and William Zorn of 336 Pratt street, who drives the delivery car were taken to station house No. 10 where they made statements. They explained that the gasoline had been bought for the automobile. Zorn alleged that he had emptied the tank a short time before the explosion. Dr. Long issued a certificate of death by accident. Miss Cavellier lived with her brother, M. F. Cavellier. |
While the articles indicate that ‘May’ was 25, her death certificate lists her birth date as 1885, making her 35 at the time of her death. It has her name as Mary W. Cavellier, lists the proper parents and says she died of ‘Burns of the body gasoline explosion, accidental.’