Historical Donation Made to Coal County Historical and Mining Museum.

The family of Percy Lee Gassaway, a lawyer and judge, who moved to Coalgate in 1920 has donated the desk Percy used while he was a judge in Coalgate to the Coal County Historical and Mining Museum. Percy and his wife, Lillian, moved to Coalgate and lived on a ranch near Coalgate (Gassaway Hill). In 1923 he was appointed county judge of Coal County. He was elected in 1924 and served until 1926, when he began serving as district judge for the twenty-sixth judicial district until 1934. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress and served from January 3, 1935 until January 3, 1937, after which he returned to Coalgate to resume the practice of law and engage as a rancher. He died in Coalgate on May 15, 1937 and is interred at the Coalgate Cemetery.